[PuppyTailWags]

PM is of course supported by a community; it runs on a subscription model and is actually reporting based on people telling it what's up.

I think you are speculating on a place of ignorance about a community you're not a part of and assume you can simply deduce the state of a community anyways, even when your priors are completely wrong.

[svnt]

The original question was “is there a HN for writers”. Your post, in my view, proves me right. PM is not a HN. I don’t pay a subscription, there isn’t a paywall. Without logging in I can’t tell where in the IRL/pseudo anonymous usernames range it is but I’ll continue to speculate that it’s more on the IRL range.

As I said earlier, I think our definitions are different. Yours is a very broad take on a news site. Mine is more of a direct analog to HN.

You are correct I am not a part of the science fiction writing community. The fact that I am not in no way precludes me from having valid positions on the viability of a community model translation from one community to another based on a more broadly informed macro perspective. It might even be the more accurate perspective as members tend to be biased toward their communities.