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Please stop breaking the site guidelines. You've done it repeatedly and we've asked you more than once before. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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I need to pay more attention; the anti-HN post edits happened often enough I assumed there was a broader trend beyond a single author.
Hm... Would you mind expanding on what you mean?
I thought there were a number of trans authors who acted negatively towards being posted on HN, but it seems to be primarily one.
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It's not pure mental illness. To many, this site is a pox on our society. Here's a past explanation foone's position: https://twitter.com/foone/status/1440697266059153439 And in a way you've even proven foone right. You're insinuating that they are mentally ill. I don't know why you feel that it's okay to treat other humans like that, but I hope you get the help you deserve.
I understand what you're getting at but the behaviour is just neurotic and childish in general. That thread you just linked is about 30 straight tweets of insane, near incoherent topic switching rambling about a situation this person has created themselves by caring about what pronouns a stranger calls them.
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#235Heh, I read it and remembered knowing a lot of it already. Of course, it turns out it was them even then [0] ;) And yay! They are on tumblr! So much easier to read and I can subscribe to their posts. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28302722
Just wondering, am I getting downvoted because I correctly gender them, or because I’m happy to read content in a format that I can read without it being a mental issue for me?
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The problem isn't the different pricing. The disgusting greedy thing is purposely designing something to destroy itself to enforce that false dichotomy.
Neither the red tapes nor DIVX destroyed themselves. Red tapes were rewound by a store, and any DIVX disc could be converted to unlimited watching if you paid for it. Plus it's not like CD's/DVD's are incredibly resource-intensive. Remember AOL CD's you got sent for free? A quick Google says one billion of those were sent out. There's about as much plastic by weight in an average Chinese takeout, or a single plastic…
Root of the comment thread was about Flexplay which literally did destroy itself. It shipped in a vacuum sealed bag with an oxygen reactive dye that rendered the disc useless about 48 hours after opening the package.
It didnt make it out of the test marketing stage, thankfully.
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#237What is it with the message to hacker news?
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#239What is it with the message to hacker news?
Foone hasn't had a particularly good history of not being insulted for their posting style (particularly Twitter/Fediverse threads) on Hacker News
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foone uses they/them pronouns :-)
I'm sure I'm not the first to say this, but I'd prefer to use they/them as the default for people I don't know well (ie, everyone on the internet that I don't have a social or parasocial relationship with)
Who is stopping you from doing that? Use whichever pronouns you want. Unless of course by ”I prefer” you mean “everyone should,” which is a different matter.