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In general I sense a lot of HN-hate, and I get it: HN comments can be pedantic, can be know-it-all, can be Silicon Valley centric, and supports threading which often leads to bickering or uninteresting low-value tangents.
I... ignore threads that don't interest me or that seem overly confident.
I don't understand why stereotyping and hating happens, but it isn't new.
For the record I have macwright.com as well as the top upvoted HN links in my RSS feed.
He should redirect to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacWrite as HN would easily get distracted.
But also: I don't really get why he'd want to do that. I read the article, and I get his complaints, but they don't really seem to have anything to do with other people reading his site. They sound like reasons for _him_ to not post to and engage on HN, not reasons to try to stop people coming from HN from reading his site. His site doesn't seem to have comments, so why does it matter who reads it? I really must be missing something.
And this is one reason I've been resistant to identifying with nerd / hacker culture for a long time. Everytime I encountered it it was often just a pissing contest about things anyone could easily look up and prove both the arguing assholes were both wrong / right as often was the case.
What other sites redirect HN referers? I only know of jwz’s one. (Don’t try it at work!)