The anonymous commenter To most casual readers, you're a pseudonymous and unknown poster too (and that goes for nearly everybody, really). it essentially forc

The anonymous commenter To most casual readers, you're a pseudonymous and unknown poster too (and that goes for nearly everybody, really). it essentially forces me to respond immediately. That is really stressful There are a lot of processes and rules to make Show HN welcoming and unstressful - it has extra guidelines, accepts a very wide variety of work in terms of quality, size, polish, etc. But it can't remove the stress of public feedback, including potentially inaccurate public feedback and you can't start going after your critics like that because of it.