Hacker News evading criticism by selectively adding noreferrer to certain links

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jun 07, 2023, 8:57 PM UTC

_cenw wrote: post #141

georgeg23 wrote: post #30

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

Aside from the actual situation, this pattern of words seems reminiscent of victim blaming.

Post by rascul » Wed, Jun 07, 2023, 9:04 PM UTC

anaganisk wrote: post #87

personjerry wrote: post #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 - 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.

Post by gettodachoppa » Wed, Jun 07, 2023, 9:10 PM UTC

personjerry wrote: post #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 - appea…

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jun 07, 2023, 9:13 PM UTC

0_____0 wrote: post #59

uberman wrote: 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.

My opinion: HN has a particular culture and attitude to discussion that can be grating for non-users. One example: HNers tend to approach topics as if they have a solid grasp on the context of a matter, and are often negative, hence dang's plea against 'middlebrow dismissal.' Another example: the common practice of leading rebuttals to a comment with "No. \n" While that's OK here, there are a lot of people who would…

Post by dang » Wed, Jun 07, 2023, 9:31 PM UTC

jix wrote: post #155

dang wrote: post #145

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Banning the domain actually doesn't work because people see that the domain is banned, observe that there's nothing wrong with the domain, and then accuse us of being unfair and hostile to the author/site. In doing that they usually jump to the most uncharitable, horrible reasons they can imagine for why we might have done so. It doesn't work to say "but they asked us to ban their site" because there's no reliable wa…

"In doing that they usually jump to the most uncharitable, horrible reasons they can imagine for why we might have done so." So you do understand why one wouldn't want to deal with a significant part of the user base here given that they behave in such ways, and thus why one might want to avoid any traffic coming from here, but feel that it's not your job to deal with those users, because then their behavior would af…