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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 appar

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.

snapplebobapple 4y ago
Well, that's stupid.....
beepbooptheory 4y ago
Well there can also be quite a lot of bigotry and hate around here, don't blame people wanting to block traffic from here, especially when your trying to create something sweet and pure like this.
throwanem 4y ago
I'm pretty sure JWZ is the OG for redirecting HN referrers, and whatever else you care to say about the man, if you tell me he does this so's not to get his fee-fees hurt, I will laugh in your face.
- pengaru 4y ago
  That's JWZ though. 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...
  - throwanem 4y ago
    It may be simply that HN commenters, taken in the large, far less frequently have anything nearly so novel or worthwhile to say as the mean participant here believes himself able to contribute. This alone strikes me as sufficient reason both for referrer redirects as a mild but not ineffective deterrent, and also for the general - and generally low - opinion of this site which is held in many other quarters. 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.
    - corobo 4y ago
      > a mild but not ineffective deterrent 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. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
- lmm 4y ago
  He does it so as not to get his fee-fees hurt. Superficial brashnees is not incompatible with underlying vulnerability (quite the opposite if anything).
  - throwanem 4y ago
    Oh, give me a break. 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.
    - zoltar 4y ago
      "Anyone who controverts my psychological insight into jwz is a fool!" 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.
      - throwanem 4y ago
        "I know some dudes like that" is psychoanalysis now?
    - ilyt 4y ago
      Maybe it's just a profession where cunts can thrive so he fits right in

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.

snapplebobapple 4y ago

Well, that's stupid.....

beepbooptheory 4y ago

Well there can also be quite a lot of bigotry and hate around here, don't blame people wanting to block traffic from here, especially when your trying to create something sweet and pure like this.

throwanem 4y ago

I'm pretty sure JWZ is the OG for redirecting HN referrers, and whatever else you care to say about the man, if you tell me he does this so's not to get his fee-fees hurt, I will laugh in your face.

pengaru 4y ago
That's JWZ though. 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...
- throwanem 4y ago
  It may be simply that HN commenters, taken in the large, far less frequently have anything nearly so novel or worthwhile to say as the mean participant here believes himself able to contribute. This alone strikes me as sufficient reason both for referrer redirects as a mild but not ineffective deterrent, and also for the general - and generally low - opinion of this site which is held in many other quarters. 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.
  - corobo 4y ago
    > a mild but not ineffective deterrent 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. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
lmm 4y ago
He does it so as not to get his fee-fees hurt. Superficial brashnees is not incompatible with underlying vulnerability (quite the opposite if anything).
- throwanem 4y ago
  Oh, give me a break. 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.
  - zoltar 4y ago
    "Anyone who controverts my psychological insight into jwz is a fool!" 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.
    - throwanem 4y ago
      "I know some dudes like that" is psychoanalysis now?
  - ilyt 4y ago
    Maybe it's just a profession where cunts can thrive so he fits right in