I am trying and utterly failing to understand what value is added by cryptographically signing this comment...
I understand all that, but I wouldn't call them "good reasons". It's a throwaway comment that has absolutely no extra weight no matter who says it. Unless you have reason to believe that Hubski's security has been breached and someone is impersonating you it's needless and distracting. And even if he did believe that, this seems to be the only comment that DarkLinkXXXX has ever signed, so we still wouldn't know that it's the original DarkLinkXXXX based on this one signature.
I do agree it's distracting. That's why I relegated the signature into a paste in a pastebin, linked to at the bottom of my comment as I usually do. See: All my comments since a couple days ago.. Do I need a reason? I used to have some fun being a script-kiddie by dumping SQL tables, and there's a lot of vulnerable sites out there. Not to say that this site might be vulnerable, but the nice thing here is that I don't have to trust the admins of any website to keep your online identity secure.it's needless and distracting.
this seems to be the only comment that DarkLinkXXXX has ever signed
Unless you have reason to believe that Hubski's security has been breached and someone is impersonating you
I do agree very much agree, but there's only one problem with this: it's too many steps! First, I have to copy-paste my comment and sign it. Then I have to put it in a pastebin, copy the url, and then link it in the comment below. That's simply too many steps for most people. Though, I am optimistic about keybase maybe making a secure API to make the process easier.
Since (AFAICS) he hasn't provided his public key anywhere, with which we could verify this message, then it's meaningless (as I understand PGP/GPG).
If he did so, then we could tell if any leet haxors had twisted his words behind his back - if we bothered to check, which we of course would not.
The comment links to keybase, and his public key is there. Not that that makes it any less pointless, but for what it's worth if you want to copy and paste his comment, remove the leading whitespace, and fix where the markup has mangled the signature, you can satisfy yourself that this comment was written by DarkLinkXXXX and no other.
Aha. I visited the site, but didn't see any user-info links; but when I put his hubski-username into the search-box, his profile and key did pop up.
I agree. That's why I moved my signature to an unmangled pastebin link. ;)