User blog comment:Bourgeoisie/Thoughts on user rights and the like/@comment-4845243-20150228002248/@comment-4845243-20150228004508

If someone requests user rights, then they are essentially opening a public forum to discuss their own qualification for said rights. Thus, bringing up things like that is not only appropriate, it's necessary. If you don't want that kind of thing public, than 1) don't do it, and 2) don't request rights.