[foone]

[flagged]

[jraph]

Hey!

I just read your Twitter thread about HN linked here.

I hope that you'll notice how people here are just discussing the topic of your post and interested.

That people ranting about Twitter posts and pronouns are a vocal minority.

That many people actually appreciate your work and that ending up on the HN front page is a sign of this.

I understand and respect that you don't want to have to deal with this vocal minority who is not nice with you, but I wish they hadn't this much power. They don't only bother you but also a majority of us.

Most people silently read you, most are willing to honor your pronouns, too many of us need frequent reminders not to assume he/him, most people who don't like reading Twitter will not complain and just not read and that's fine.

Maybe HN guidelines could use some update to ask people to stop bitching on one's choice of pronouns and use of twitter to post things like you do. Plenty of tools exist to read them comfortably anyway.

In any case, a lot of love and of course you are free to not want to deal with HN as long as it is not an adequately welcoming place.

[vippy]

Any reason in particular that you post things publicly you wouldn't want linked here on HN?

[chrononaut]

They have a Twitter thread on that topic here: https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1440375176604966924?s=20

[ThrowawayTestr]

In short, self-importance.

[colonwqbang]

Why don't you want people to link to your site?

[McGlockenshire]

Every time foone gets posted here, there is, in rough order:

1) Misgendering, usually out of ignorance. foone is aggressively agender and goes by they/them.

2) Someone correcting the misgendering.

3) The same circular discussion of why foone doesn't like being posted to HN.

4) The same circular discussion of pronouns and the culture war.

5) Culture warriors come out and do their thing and often get their comments flagged and sometimes, though not nearly often enough, get banned.

6) Many of these posts get nuked. Both yours and mine are likely candidates.

It's a guaranteed pattern and foone got sick of it long ago and has asked that submissions of their stuff be banned here. That hasn't happened and thus the cycle will continue endlessly as long as foone does cool shit.

[deadbeeves]

Fun fact: if you don't like this place, you don't have to come here.

[dang]

Please stop breaking the site guidelines. You've done it repeatedly and we've asked you more than once before.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[dang]

Crossing into personal attack is not allowed, regardless of how provocative another comment is or you feel it is. Please don't post like this again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[SteveNuts]

Why? If you post something publicly what’s the difference if 10 people see it, 1,000 people see it, or no one sees it?

[dragonwriter]

Its not people seeing it, its how people on HN behave when they see it. Which is why it is about posting it on HN not linking to it from anywhere else on the internet.