So if he was referred to as &#x27;Paul&#x27; when there are millions of Pauls then you would have no problem with it even though then you&#x27;d need more context to know who he was but if he&#x27;s refered to <i>his particular handle on hn, on hn</i> then that&#x27;s excluding people from the club? It wasn&#x27;t as if membership of that particular club was forced on you and it&#x27;s not as if it is a secret. Lighten up. For that matter, plenty of people here are only known by their handles, so if you see a reference to some person and it does not make sense to you at first it&#x27;s ok to assume that is a handle. We also don&#x27;t do @xxx and such around here (at least, not unless someone indicates a twitter handle).