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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
#82I'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
That comment is quoting its parent comment in order to object to it. The parent comment was flagged and we banned the account that posted it. I'm not sure what else we should have done there.
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Submit has a URL so you can make the text you want to show as part of the visited style of that element, otherwise the styling could hide it.
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#84I have been in HN since many of the current users could even type on a keyboard, and allow me to chip in. * They have the right to block by referral * HN has the right to set up that attribute to the links * I don't think they are arguing about HN doing it, but to do it silently or covertly by someone in the moderation staff I wont argue about legality or morals. It looks like they have an issue with the current dyna…
ps Sure, there are a lot of technical methods to circumvent any block. Users in here share archive[.]today links that break paywalls all the time.
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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
There are no real "HN mods", this isn't reddit. There is basically one admin, dang, who does not do this.
What is actually happening is enough regular users who have been on the site long enough (myself included) just disagree that some particular piece of content belongs on this site, so they flag it.
What people really have a problem with is not understanding that lots of other people just disagree with them.
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#87As 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 - appea…
You can't just claim that without knowing the context.
Also I think, if some website doesn't want you to link to it, and politely redirects you. You shouldn't deploy code evade referrer for that site particularly. C'mon we aren't talking about using a VPN to evade a region block, it's one website abusing their referrer tags against another.
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Dang, have you considered applying the noreferrer to all links? HN users wouldn't notice the difference. I guess the main downside would be the owner of the submitted page might see a spike in traffic without knowing where the traffic is coming from. Edit: Thinking more, maybe not a great idea across the board. It would make it harder for site owners to recover if HN is causing downtime (hug of death).
Noref would also mean they don't gain search engine rank from the link (wikipedia uses it for all external links, to prevent spam), which could annoy some. edit: that's nofollow not noref, derp.
that would be the nofollow attribute iirc
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As it should. Personally speaking, I flagged this thread, and I hope others do as well. There's nothing productive to be accomplished here, nor anything intellectually stimulating to discuss. So yeah, I'm totally for deleting/killing this entire post.
Well I’m still wondering how they are showing a text only to people who submitted something to HN and nobody seems to know either in the thread so at least there’s that…
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#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
Dang, have you considered applying the noreferrer to all links? HN users wouldn't notice the difference. I guess the main downside would be the owner of the submitted page might see a spike in traffic without knowing where the traffic is coming from. Edit: Thinking more, maybe not a great idea across the board. It would make it harder for site owners to recover if HN is causing downtime (hug of death).
Noref would also mean they don't gain search engine rank from the link (wikipedia uses it for all external links, to prevent spam), which could annoy some. edit: that's nofollow not noref, derp.
You're thinking of nofollow