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Hacker News evading criticism by selectively adding noreferrer to certain links

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Re: Hacker News evading criticism by selectively adding noreferrer to certain links

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post #7

I'm sure there must be some back story here. What are these people's concerns? They seem to believe that HN is a bastion for harassment. Of all the forums I read, this seems the most benign by a large margin.

I found this [1]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35251905

Re: Hacker News evading criticism by selectively adding noreferrer to certain links

#22
post #5

This is hilariously awesome

Not really because I don’t think dang is a “scumbag” as Hector put it. That is quite harsh, right? And like it seems like a misunderstanding turned into a spat for no good reason.

Re: Hacker News evading criticism by selectively adding noreferrer to certain links

#24
As far as the thread goes, the author sounds as though they are a child throwing a tantrum.

In the original OpenGL thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36212674 there seems to be some discussion as to why the author hates HN, i.e. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36229753 quoted here:

> It's not really all that much of a moral conundrum. Marcan's belief - expressed a number of times on his Mastodon - appears to be that he can prevent other people from discussing something, for the sole reason he doesn't want it discussed. It's not a particularly defensible position in an open society.

> In particular, he is upset that people on Hacker News tend to point out that a contributor on Asahi - Lina - appears to be a computer-generated anime alter ego of Marcan himself.

> Me, I have absolutely no problem with Marcan having an anime alter ego, but I don't think it's entirely reasonable to expect people to refrain from noticing this and remarking on it. Marcan disagrees, and this is the source of the HN-Marcan rift.

Re: Hacker News evading criticism by selectively adding noreferrer to certain links

#26

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Oh no, another HN conspiracy!!! Not everything needs to be a conspiracy when some of us are sick of other people's nonsense.

not a conspiracy, HN mods routinely delete stuff they don't personally like even when it doesn't go against the rules

Re: Hacker News evading criticism by selectively adding noreferrer to certain links

#27

Hacker News has every right to include noreferrer in its links. The destination site was playing games based on the HN origin, so dang just fixed the bug.

They don't want the HN crowd there because it brings abuse & harassment. If Dang instead would block the domain, everyone would be happy.

They could add a login form if they don't want their website to be publicly accessible.

Re: Hacker News evading criticism by selectively adding noreferrer to certain links

#28
post #7

I'm sure there must be some back story here. What are these people's concerns? They seem to believe that HN is a bastion for harassment. Of all the forums I read, this seems the most benign by a large margin.

I've seen some... unproductive comments about Asahi Lina and of course they never go away because every HN thread is a 101 thread. And the Alyssa thread was probably a disaster but I didn't read it for that reason.

Re: Hacker News evading criticism by selectively adding noreferrer to certain links

#30

Hacker News has every right to include noreferrer in its links. The destination site was playing games based on the HN origin, so dang just fixed the bug.

They don't want the HN crowd there because it brings abuse & harassment. If Dang instead would block the domain, everyone would be happy.

If they don't want people visiting their website maybe they shouldn't put it on the internet.
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