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.