[throw10920]

I think it would be better to avoid mention of them (or the Asahi project) on HN entirely, for that matter.

If they don't want HN to criticize them, then they should expect to not get the free publicity that HN offers. Seems fair enough.

Also, between accusing HN of "supporting trans genocide" (which is some mix between "impossible" and "false"), and poisoning links with HN referrer URLs, they don't seem like very good people themselves.

[squigz]

Can you provide some context about this?

[squigz]

Found some... Seems crazy to me; this community has never felt transphobic to me... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36226845

[throw10920]

Thanks for finding that, I had a brief search but couldn't locate it.

Yeah, most communities have bad actors, but in HN's case, most of the bad comments are either user-flagged or killed directly by dang. The crazy part is that some of these people (e.g. sussmannbaka in the thread you linked) actually think that that means that those comments are somehow endorsed or something, which is completely insane - the comment literally says "dead" or "flagged", that means the community doesn't think it's acceptable.

The behavior in both the Mastodon post and that thread is why I don't want these people on HN - they're not interested in intellectual curiosity, they just want to have a flamewar over nothing.

[pests]

That is unhinged. I am at a loss after reading that thread. I always thought HN was a little over represented in the queer and furry communities.