[thrwowowow]

People with public personas get all sorts of criticism here though. I mean look at Matt Mullenweg and this whole WordPress debacle. If you're doing something, in public, that others think is a bit off, then they're going to comment.

Marcan is of course free to redirect HN visitors to his site to a long screed about how much he despises HN, just as Matt is free to block WP Engine users from his site and/or rant about them in WordPress feeds that show up in the admin panel.

But in both cases others are free to consider this sort of reaction quite ridiculous and unhelpful, and talk about it.

Interestingly Matt still comments here even though he's getting absolutely roasted in the replies every time: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=photomatt

[genrilz]

I think it is annoying to have to copy past the link in order to get around the essay too. I think its fine to say so. Its the people saying that HN isn't actually like how the essay represents HN to be that my original post and previous reply are talking about.

Given the comment thread you linked. I feel like photomatt has a very strong stomach. I'm glad I'm not him.

EDIT: I see where your comment is coming from, in that I did say that I thought it was fair to redirect to the essay. My opinion is that it was both fair to redirect to the essay, and fair for HN readers to find that redirect annoying. This all seems pretty civil to me, although some sibling comments do seem to be acting more hurt about it then I would expect.