The comments here seem to prove him right. Half of them are airing their personal grievances or talking generically about what it means to have a community.
HN frontpage posts also have a way to get the attention of some pretty shitty people, directly or indirectly. HN itself takes active steps so site operators cannot detect when someone is coming from HN or not (like adding noreferrer to links to some domains) so the admins here are aware of the problem and decide to go against linked authors' wishes.
HN frontpage posts also have a way to get the attention of some pretty shitty people, directly or indirectly. HN itself takes active steps so site operators cannot detect when someone is coming from HN or not (like adding noreferrer to links to some domains) so the admins here are aware of the problem and decide to go against linked authors' wishes.