And in a way you've even proven foone right. You're insinuating that they are mentally ill. I don't know why you feel that it's okay to treat other humans like that, but I hope you get the help you deserve.
I don't think "sometimes I get tagged when people link to content I wrote and sometimes internet commenters don't do research to find out people's preferred pronouns" is a "pox on our society"
See, you've misunderstood. To many a website is a pox on society. To many, if you don't completely agree with them, you're the same as a Nazi. I suppose life does become more interesting if you have no sense of scale, can't conceive of nuance, and think everything is life or death.
I understand what you're getting at but the behaviour is just neurotic and childish in general. That thread you just linked is about 30 straight tweets of insane, near incoherent topic switching rambling about a situation this person has created themselves by caring about what pronouns a stranger calls them.
Foone is not the only one expressing this sentiment. Here's another recent example:
> Note: unfortunately, Hacker News found this post. I think I got them to go away. But if you're coming from there, please read about the parable of the Nazi bar and take a hard look at the company you keep, or just fuck off. Thanks.
> oh shit it's hacker news / I've heard that people from the orange VC site are linking to this post! You are absolutely not welcome here. Cohost is not a place for you. Your site is full of sexism and racism that you can't report to the main moderator because he approves of it. / you are bad and you hang out with white supremacists. please leave.
They sound like people bitter because they couldn't get a moderation team on their side. Good! I'm not fond of Nazis, but I don't need or want them silenced. Let them condemn themselves with their own words.
You should have more empathy for people, and rather than diagnose someone expressing a negative opinion about this community with mental illness, assume you might lack the necessary context with which to interpret their frustration.
You can find some of that context in the pile of flagged comments at the bottom of this thread, or any thread where foone's content is posted.
