Born or went half way around the world to University then come to Britain and get jobs in London.
Well, I am not interested in him personally, only on his behaviour and how that affects projects and technology that affect my life to a large degree.
His behaviour matches a pattern I've observed in large enough projects (regardless of whether they're proprietary or open source), with university education in IT being an immediate common factor. But what do I know? Nothing much, really; and even when I do, I'm often wrong. That's why I wrote
I blame. I did study and work in a couple of Universities, for over a decade myself.
Anyway, using social engineering (or "social gaming", as I often call it) to override factual and technical criticisms,
is one of my buttons.
I see absolutely nothing positive for the end user in this, nor any reasonable technical basis for the initiative, except to
exploit users further, by wresting the choice and control of the software and hardware from the human end user to the corporation running a website –– or, is providing internet service to that user, as that seems more likely to be the true goal behind this initiative to me. Paranoid? No, I do not think so in this case, because the corporation at hand is one of those that already considers its users the true product it sells.