[PieSquared]

Why? What did he do that was so linkbait-y?

From what I can understand, his aim was to create an article interesting to read for the community around Hacker News. This article itself was an observation about what the community finds interesting, as well as a note about an anomaly he observed. Is there something wrong with that?

[socratees]

We don't even know who the authors of that site are. Just having an about me section on the site would make the site more credible.

[xenophanes]

the title is designed to be linkbait