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They're not blocking hn, they're blocking users who have visited hn. I had been following their project and I had not seen any disparaging comments on hn, nor h
by jemmyw 3y ago
They're not blocking hn, they're blocking users who have visited hn. I had been following their project and I had not seen any disparaging comments on hn, nor had I joined any discussion. After finding the comments in question, at least the ones that hadn't been moderated away, they seemed pretty tame... unless there were worse that I couldn't find?
In any case, consider that they've now turned a lot of conversation from being about their project to being about their blocking and they've directed a whole bunch of eyes away from their work to the comments they didn't like. Of course they're free to do so but it seems fairly counterproductive.
- _cenw 3y agoThey do get moderated eventually most of the time. But not always, and not fast. The "blocking people who visited HN" part is accurate, but that's only after HN decided to noreferrer Asahi links (unlike all others).
- estebank 3y ago> They're not blocking hn, they're blocking users who have visited hn. IIRC, they used to block only on the referrer, until HN removed the referrer only for their domain (and I believe after that was pointed out from all outbound links).