The problem is more that HN is perceived, with good reason, to be transphobic, and Asahi has several trans developers. This is also the reason why a couple of other people I won't mention don't want HN to link to their projects either, because for every link, several people will bitch in the comments about the validity of their gender and pronouns. (As if creating a web app somehow makes one an authority in biology.)
I mean, obviously, it's not like everybody who comments here takes part in the abuse, but when you spend every damn day of your life seeing it and depending on where you live, possibly being harassed by the government over it too, HN turns out to be one more place where you simply can't have any peace.
(And honestly, even if Lina is a anime alter ego, which you haven't proven, and only suspect, why the fuck do you care? Don't you have something better to spend your time on?)
> and you know it
I'm always so knowledgeable in the eyes of people who criticise me!
No, I didn't know Asahi had a single trans developer. I've never seen it come up on HN, where I most often hear about the cool work being done by the Asahi team. The vast majority of comments on here about every new Asahi article are effusive praise.
I dispute the characterisation of HN as some transphobic hellsite. That characterisation is simply not accurate, in the slightest, whatever perception may prevail on the Asahi Discord.
> why the fuck do you care
My other comment below, explaining the legal issue with fake OSS contributors, was already up by the time of your comment, so I refer you there. More broadly, I think Marcan should get to have as many anime alter-egos as he wishes. I'm just not particularly surprised that people find that noteworthy, and I think if you choose to have a public anime alter ego, you probably should be able to deal with that? I feel like Marcan's attempt to shut down this discussion is a perfect example of the Streisand effect - I certainly would have never found out about 'Lina' were it not for this silly feud.
I've seen these posts, and they're horrible, mean-spirited, and hurtful.
But as far as I've seen all those posts have also been downvoted to hell, flagged, and hidden, and the users often banned, and they're often from new "green" users rather than regulars. It's entirely possible that some of these posts remained (especially if they're posted after the conversation died down and there are less eyes), but I'm certain that if you email dang that he will take action.
At some point the first comment on one of my articles was "gay n---r soiboy" or something to that effect from a new account – a curious comment since my website has a picture of me being white enough to get a sunburn in Ireland – but how do you prevent that? Limiting sign-ups is the only thing I can think of.
I can definitely understand that people feel very negative about these things, but I think it's unfair to judge all of HN by it – you're essentially judging a community by the posts that were considered inappropriate and were removed.
And if you don't like HN (for any reason) then that's fine, so don't visit HN then. All this tomfoolery with referer blocks seems rather at odds with how the internet is supposed to work; "microsoft.com blocks links of the referer is from lwn.net" would cause a loud uproar here.