It's more than just odd. Most people strive towards their published articles getting attention and yet he's aggressively blocking entire communities against it.

It's more than just odd. Most people strive towards their published articles getting attention and yet he's aggressively blocking entire communities against it. It's not even as if he has a valid concern about bandwidth since the content is all static and it would literally cost him nothing to run that behind Cloudflare and let them deal with the bandwidth spikes. The whole think feels more like an elitist attack against the HN community specifically (not helped by his description) rather than a carefully thought-out traffic management plan. But his site. His prerogative. It's not like he has to share his thoughts everyone indiscriminately.