[PhasmaFelis]

Appears to be one of those bizarre people who gets offended when people link to them. They were more common back when bandwidth was as precious as diamonds, and I see this article dates from that era. On the modern Web, I've never been sure if they don't quite understand what the internet is for, or what.

[honestcoyote]

You're going to accuse jwz of not understanding the internet? I'm going to assume you have no idea who jwz is.

[PhasmaFelis]

Anyone who actually gets angry when they're linked to (that image seems calculated to offend, not merely deflect bandwidth usage) has some kind of fundamental disconnect with how the internet is used on a day-to-day basis. It may be a social/emotional disconnect rather than a technical one, but it's still a disconnect.

I suppose I should acknowledge the possibility that he's just kind of a dick and likes trolling people for lulz. That's not really better, though.

[tedunangst]

It's his server. He gets to decide how it responds when people send it requests. If there's a disconnect, I think it's the people telling jwz how he needs to configure his server.

[PhasmaFelis]

> It's his server. He gets to decide how it responds when people send it requests.

I don't understand why you think this contradicts anything I said.

[scintill76]

Sending drastically different content based on where your URL was clicked from, should indeed count as one definition of "not understanding how the hypertext web works." It's also something you're free to do, and the rest of the web is free to stop linking to you in response.

[userbinator]

I suppose I should acknowledge the possibility that he's just kind of a dick and likes trolling people for lulz.

Or perhaps that he's just kind of a troll and likes dicking people.