I have talked to creators before about their projects ending up here. When you are doing a project or have an interest in something you haven't thought of everything. But you have probably thought of most things that spontaneously comes to mind. It isn't even just shitting on things that is the problem. Effectively shitting on something takes some interest, making claims or potentially having a point. It is the random bullshit that gets to you. The ignorance and the arrogance and even more so in combination because there is little you can do about it. It is many times as burdensome to read inaccurate things when you know better and even more so trying to correct them. So it quickly becomes Wargames. If you don't engage the bullshit spreads, if you do engage you waste all your time and it probably don't get much better anyway. So the only way to win is not to play at all.

I went back and read some of the discussion in the other thread. I didn't read everything because of time. What strikes me isn't the bad faith or poor form trying to expose someone or arguing a tangent on an interesting subject. It is how embarrassing it is. And how embarrassing it that they don't know how embarrassing it is. If I managed to even slightly get my point across you will understand why I can't explain why it is embarrassing. What I can say is that it isn't about just about being wrong or being rude. It about not knowing what they are talking about while being convinced that they have a point.

And no I don't think it is ironic. If you consider Hacker News a net negative blocking your blog from being published here is consistent with that view. More would if "all publicity is good publicity" wasn't such a strong idea in money making ventures.

It's also the case that most HN readers won't post comments about articles they read. This childish redirect nonsense affects them as well.

I follow Hector on Mastodon and he's posted a few times in the past about how he dislikes the HN comments and often finds them toxic. He didn't implement any anti-HN measures in his sites before though, so there was clearly something different this time. What I think elevated this from "ignore" to "block" were a few creepy subthreads relating to him and the identity of Lina that I am not going to repeat. Additionally I thought this was a shame because those nasty ones ended up being flagged and downvoted by the community, and drowned out by a boatload of comments saying how much people admired the work Hector, Lina, Alyssa and the Asahi crew are doing. So he's under the impression that most HNers are dumb idiots who dislike him and and are comofortable doxxing people, which I don't think is the case.

However if you're looking for the basic archetype of a bad HN comment I think yours is actually much more appropriate. Very poor form :-/