Your link might get popular on HN, and inevitably someone will comment "well that's stupid", and you will read it and feel bad. Not reading HN comments is apparently not an option.
When I last explored the tildeverse it was rife with easily triggered precious snowflakes actively searching for reasons to be offended. It wouldn't surprise me if the fee-fees protection comment had at least a grain of truth to it...
Prior experience strongly suggests your next move, or someone's, will be to ask why I stay here myself, if I have such a low opinion of the place. The question is pointless, and has two answers. One is for the opportunity to indulge my own love for needless pettifogging and disputation, a flaw in my character I have never managed fully to extirpate. The other is that once in a blue moon, at a rate slightly in excess of that I've seen most other places, someone here does actually say something worth taking seriously. Perhaps this thread will surprise me in that regard.
I spent more time trying to find why there was a rickroll than I did on the site itself. Honestly it worked perfectly on me.
Snipe the nerds before they can interact with your community.
In all serious though I do get it, I'd definitely avoid injecting Reddit and HN into a small community. You're just asking to overload the culture and Eternal September yourself doing that.
I don't know how many people you've known who ran successful bars. I've known several. It is not a profession that is kind to the weak, and Zawinski's thrived in it for what must by now be at least twenty years.
I don't particularly care for the man; mostly I think he's kind of an asshole whose political opinions ossified some time around the year I was born, and whose ability to appreciate the world as is seems entirely circumscribed thereby. I do nonetheless recognize that he is worthy of my respect. Armchair psychoanalysts, not so much.
So you know him personally? Talked about this? Have some background in personali...
"He runs a bar!"
Seems legit.
"Armchair psychoanalysts, not so much."
Indeed.