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I can relate. I stopped blogging after HN found a few of my posts, and unwelcome comments and suggestions rolled in. Long form writing was fun, but man - randos on the internet can really suck the fun out of it.

Sorry you had a bad time, don’t let unwelcome comments bring you down

my favorite part of this bullshittery that there's quotes around my name. it's just my name. it's on my license and everything.

anyway you can keep linking to my threads. I just won't like it.

There are quotes because most people have never heard of you and without the quotes the title would be hard to parse.

If you’re going to ironically post foone's tweets about not wanting their tweets to be posted, the least you can do is get their pronouns right

Well this is what I (and others) have already done in the replies below (at least). But again the OP's title is clearing proving 'foone's point.

On the other hand, if foone doesn't like the fact that their 'public tweets' are being linked on HN and bots, etc they can just lock the account to 'approved' twitter users and their 'problem' is solved.

Whatever you post on Twitter or the internet will most certainly get linked on external sites, forums, etc. It's quite naive to not expect this.

Love the foone. Only on Twitter though. Let persons control their means and avenues of self-expression.

The title should say “their tweets” - foone is not a man

It’s interesting that someone thinks that posting to the public internet should allow them to block some users.

Either make a private site or make a public site. But it’s not cool to want a public site except blocking certain users or clients or tools from accessing.

It’s also odd because it’s not like he would even need to participate if someone is discussing his public statements. Why would he care if people comment how annoying his tweet threads are?

Also, he should be blogging as twitter is annoying to read these types of posts.

Eh, I don't think it's unreasonable to complain into the void if a particular site has a userbase with whom you usually disagree winds up continually linking to you, just to make the same round of comments. People don't like perceiving that they're getting dumped on, even if that's "part of the game" for writing things on the Internet.

One person's "blunt criticism" is another person's "jerk," especially since text has no emotional context.

It’s unreasonable, I think, because there’s no likely outcome.

First, the complaint is pretty vapid about bots posting, etc.

Second, I think his comment was about wanting to block the site if they were a twitter account.

If I don’t want people commenting on my posts, I don’t make them publicly. Wishing that I could stop people talking about me when I’m making public statements is unreasonable.

Obviously, he’s happy to scream into the void every time he posts something, but that seems like a waste of effort. But if it’s cathartic or something, more power to him. I just hope he finds a way to be at peace as that seems like it would frustrate me.

Not everyone loves infinite amount of attention from the entire general public, some feel it painful and goes so far as to remove relevant tags or ob/fus/cate con_ent tltles to hide from searches and limit audiences.

Personally I would love inexhaustible appraisal from the whole world pointed at me, and I like it when those search obfuscation become obsolete, but not everyone is the same.

QED

We should find ways to be better people.

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