Why is discussion on a different website so distressing? Are there people from HN harassing you on twitter?

It’s trendy to hate HN by some on Twitter.

Sure, except in this case foone has explained exactly why they dislike their stuff showing up on HN.

They also seem to hate Factorio itself, which is the reason that while they play it and tweet about it so much, they mangle its name. I don't understand it, but everyone is free to remove what they want from their own Twitter I guess.

FWIW re the mangling: According to foone, the reason they blank out the name is to avoid it showing up on searches for the game (automated or otherwise), which they say has led to a subset of fans of the game sending them transphobic comments because of the past drama and the presence of a trans flag on their twitter page.

But as you say, people can do what they like.

That is not the reason I had been told and I can't easily check this (can't search -- that's the point). It is not unlikely that I have been led astray.

i edited my comment to provide a little more context but just because someone provides reasons doesn’t mean it’s not influenced by the trend. reddit’s trend to dislike tiktok has valid points but it’s also fueled by the trend. i’ve criticized hn here on hn so this isn’t me trying to defend the site.

yes, people from HN have harassed, insulted and misgendered foone on Twitter. it's also happening in this very thread. (i.e. noduerme above)

Would you be willing to explain why you chose to delete the tweet after a link to it appeared on HN?

Some people dislike interacting with the HN community for one reason or another. I imagine that's the case here. This person definitely isn't the only one.

Getting a post or tweet picked up by a large community who doesn't see your stuff regularly can be a lot more stressful than speaking directly to your audience (in this case, direct Twitter followers) who have a lot more context on your work.

In this case, there’s no need to imagine. Their latest Tweet has the answer.

I can only see 1 comment in this thread that uses "he" to refer to a person, and it refers to a different person, so I'm not sure I follow.

There are plenty, but you may have to turn on showdead and scroll to the bottom and uncollapse to see them.

It seems to be about misgendering on HN?

I never understood why it's such a big deal. When people guess wrong about my gender, ethnicity, preferred spoken language, etc, I correct them.

I guess if they were to argue with me about the correction and insist their guess was right, that would get old fast and I'd be as frustrated as foone.

It happens much more frequently by people with malicious intent to them. All you have to do is say once that misgendering is annoying and them trolls will latch on and do it intentionally to harm you

A subset of HN commenters tend to parrot a lot of conservative talking points. Most of the time you don't notice this as the discussion revolves around technical topics. It's a little disappointing to see.

Needing to run through this discussion every time HN gains interest in one of their posts is a compounding reason, I'm sure: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33238680

People don't have to police how others speak about them, that would make it less stressful.

The author was upset that people don't like Twitter and so they used threadreaderapp and archived their tweets - so they went out and deleted the tweets while complaining about archiving?! They're fighting how the internet works and lashing out at people who have never heard their name before. They seem to want to be using Facebook with a closed friend group.

Same reason StackOverflow/Exchange's moderator team self-destructed 3 years ago after the Monica case. New pronouns war. The end of our species.

If you're not with us, you're with them.

You posted three flamebait comments to this thread alone. We ban accounts that post like that. No more of this, please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html