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Comment by throwawayacc3 | Hacker News Reader

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We've banned this account for trolling (and for regularly breaking the site guidelines).

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I don't understand? Why would you post a blog on the public internet and then have an issue over it being shared? It's not like HN is reprinting it and the discussions are interesting.

I would not have know about this format if it hadn't been posted here.

> Why would you post a blog on the public internet and then have an issue over it being shared?

Correction: an issue with it being shared on Hacker News. Foone has explained this themselves:

https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1440375176604966924?s=20

I find it rather interesting that someone wants to write publicly and can't deal with others disliking specific aspects of their writing. Not that the readers tell the writer they don't like it, but the fact itself that the readers don't like it and that they tell that to each other. I'm not sure someone this ill-equipped to deal with dissent should be on the Internet.

I bet that the kvetching doesn't happen now that it's a single Tumblr post rather than a tweet thread.

And if it does, the complaints can be flagged instead of the post.

> I bet that the kvetching doesn't happen now that it's a single Tumblr post rather than a tweet thread.

Maybe. But also HN doesn't have a great reputation re: gender, and foone is non-binary. So there are multiple reasons.

foone uses they/them pronouns :-)

I'm sure I'm not the first to say this, but I'd prefer to use they/them as the default for people I don't know well (ie, everyone on the internet that I don't have a social or parasocial relationship with)

Who is stopping you from doing that? Use whichever pronouns you want. Unless of course by ”I prefer” you mean “everyone should,” which is a different matter.

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