&gt;That&#x27;s one big issue I have with the hacker ethos, where societal merit is based on quality of code and not quality of character. The real world does not work that way.<p>isn&#x27;t the quality of character exactly at the issue here?<p>Btw, on quality of code as a proxy to mental capabilities vs. quality of character - people stupid enough to use their real names in such situations like AM obviously don&#x27;t have enough mental capability to distinguish between what is good and what is bad and act accordingly, ie. they obviously don&#x27;t have the capability to have quality of character.