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Comment by rvz | Hacker News Reader

Really. Who cares. If you don't want people to link your tweets, why post them to Twitter in the first place?

They should delete them and put them on a blog and block HN traffic like what petulant characters such as jwz has done. Even then one can still screenshot and upload the whole page and paste the link here and they will still get upset over it.

In general, do what you want with the links you post here as long as they don't break the guidelines.

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One of the reasons that they prefer not to have them linked here is that the discussion inevitably boils down to "why did they post this on twitter as a thread instead of making a blog post and writing it out long form." As well as complaints about them getting distracted.

It's just that the community here tends not to like twitter threads, but likes the content.

I feel like comments like that on HN are pretty easily ignored though, no? Unless people are seeing the article posted here, and then going to Twitter and replying or DMing @foone about it - which I would agree is a bit out of order.

There are bots that automatically repost everything on the HN front page to Twitter, automatically pinging him.

Ah I see. There's not much to be done then, because I can guarantee that with the ~140k followers foone has on twitter and the number of people who submit on HN there's no way short of HN blocking URLs (which IMO won't happen) that would resolve this, except if foone individually blocks the bots as they show up?

Maybe this just comes with the territory of being popular on twitter :(

Just a little heads-up though, foone indicated their pronouns as "they/them" on Twitter.

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