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subfictional.com is a personal blog at subfictional.com about culture and politics. Since 2011, 23 different Hacker News readers have linked it 27 times, most often “My theory: Patreon doesn’t want to be a money services business”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (15) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog as a source or follow-up on the 2014 Brendan Eich/Mozilla CEO controversy, Drupal governance, Patreon's fee change, and Open Source Bridge. Most links are cited as support.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 15 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- My theory: Patreon doesn’t want to be a money services business5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2017-12-09
- On Brendan Eich as CEO of Mozilla4 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2014-03-24
- /thoughts-on-recent-drupal-governance-decisions/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-03-27
What Hacker News says?
Here's CK's blog post: https://subfictional.com/my-theory-patreon-doesnt-want-to-be...
Comment linking /my-theory-patreon-doesnt-want-to-be-a-money-services-business/
on “We’re sorry, and we’re not rolling out the fees change”Submitted On Brendan Eich as CEO of Mozilla as a story · 78 points
HN discussionFor those following up days later, this is what I think as well. Someone else wrote it up: https://subfictional.com/my-theory-patreon-doesnt-want-to-be...
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on “Patreon’s new service fee spurs concern that creators will lose patrons”Submitted My theory: Patreon doesn’t want to be a money services business as a story · 63 points
HN discussionFound this: https://subfictional.com/my-theory-patreon-doesnt-want-to-be...
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on “Patreon’s new service fee spurs concern that creators will lose patrons”Submitted Valerie Aurora and a pattern of problematic behavior as a story · 2 points
HN discussionNice, thanks for editing the post. Sociolinguistics is fascinating; at least not every kind of mismatch/misunderstanding is loaded. And there's a paper for some linguist to write on the hybrid tone of friendly and authoritative that forum moderators find to use. (Edit: Part of why I consider clear use of "you guys" to be so limited is that when used in professional/quasi-professional tech industry contexts, it can a…
Comment linking /2012/07/02/language-matters-stop-using-guys-to-address-mix-gender-groups/
on “Challenge HN: Keep lame April Fools' gags off the front page”Submitted Language Matters: Stop Using “Guys” to Address Mix-Gender Groups (2012) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionNot taking sides, but I found this analysis by an experienced community manager interesting: https://subfictional.com/thoughts-on-recent-drupal-governanc... "it's complicated"
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on “Drupal Confessions – An Open Letter”Submitted When the Worst Happens (OS Feels 2016) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAlso: http://subfictional.com/2014/03/24/on-brendan-eich-as-ceo-of...
Comment linking /2014/03/24/on-brendan-eich-as-ceo-of-mozilla/
on “OkCupid urges users to abandon Firefox”Submitted Codes of Conduct and Censorship in Technical Communities as a story · 2 points
HN discussionConversely, hurting Mozilla is not just hurting Eich, but hurting all the other people who work there, including the very people that OKC is defending. So despite Eich's personal politics, Mozilla is a place where healthcare is extended to transexuals, and staffers have come out in support of Mozilla org's friendliness to non-straight sexualities, even though they don't support Eich's personal view. http://subfictio…
Comment linking /2014/03/24/on-brendan-eich-as-ceo-of-mozilla/
on “OkCupid urges users to abandon Firefox”Submitted Multiple Sclerosis as a story · 1 points
HN discussionYou mean any Mozilla employee who's never actually talked to Brendan, right? The people who have interacted with him have this to say: https://twitter.com/Jason_Duell/status/449276922359320576 http://subfictional.com/2014/03/24/on-brendan-eich-as-ceo-of... (And I saw a few more along those lines on twitter, but trying to search twitter on this topic right now is a bit difficult.) Oddly enough, the only Mozilla emplo…
Comment linking /2014/03/24/on-brendan-eich-as-ceo-of-mozilla/
on “Three Mozilla Board Members Resign over Choice of New CEO”Submitted When the Worst Happens (2016) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI did not see a single post from someone who would be led by Brendan saying they did not want to be lead by him. In fact, the opposite. Please do look up the difference between the Mozilla Corporation and the Mozilla Foundation. He was picked as CEO of the _Corporation_ but the Mozilla employees who called for his resignation were employees of the _Foundation_, and hence wouldn't be led by him at all. The Corporatio…
Comment linking /2014/03/24/on-brendan-eich-as-ceo-of-mozilla/
on “Brendan Eich, We’ve Failed You. I’m Sorry.”Submitted My theory: Patreon doesn’t want to be a money services business (2017) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> a 2008 donation of $1,000 to California Proposition 8 The woke/cancel culture crowd (none of whom knew him personally) went after him with a vengeance in 2014, but there were LGBT and LGBT-allied co-workers of his at the time who were aghast at the outrage. Here are three examples I could find online just now [0][1][2] [0] https://subfictional.com/on-brendan-eich-as-ceo-of-mozilla/ [1] https://web.archive.org/web/…
Comment linking /on-brendan-eich-as-ceo-of-mozilla/
on “I switched to Brave”Submitted Free speech and its many meanings as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI don't think the issue is as simple as that. Here is more on the topic: https://subfictional.com/2012/07/02/language-matters-stop-us...
Comment linking /2012/07/02/language-matters-stop-using-guys-to-address-mix-gender-groups/
on “Guess Who Doesn’t Fit in at Work”Submitted What Keeps Me at Mozilla as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI'm with you 100% here, yeah, and I agree entirely with the points made here [ https://subfictional.com/thoughts-on-recent-drupal-governanc... ]. But I don't think Dries has the credibility to act in the community's best interest and also in the best interest of Acquia. As an officer of Acquia he has a fiduciary responsibility; his responsibility to Drupal is purely ethical. I'd argue that Ryan can't really gain fro…
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on “Sex and Gor and open source”Submitted Securing Your On-line Life with a Password Manager and Two-Factor Auth as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> but apparently it was enough people to tip the scales Tip which scales? You seem to be under the misapprehension that there was serious internal pressure for Brendan to resign. There was not. The problem, of course, is convincing you of that. I can point you to https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/04/05/faq-on-ceo-resignat... but of course you can decide to not believe that. I can also tell you that I'm a Mozilla em…
Comment linking /2014/03/24/on-brendan-eich-as-ceo-of-mozilla/
on “Brendan Eich”Mitchell and Brendan have always been the heart and soul of Mozilla's leadership. While Brendan's appointment as CEO might result in some changes in where Mozilla directs its efforts, it won't cause changes in the culture; that will remain as open and inclusive as it has always been. Also, everyone who has an opinion on this topic should read what Christie Koehler -- someone who most definitely has skin in this game…
Comment linking /2014/03/24/on-brendan-eich-as-ceo-of-mozilla/
on “ Building a Global, Diverse, Inclusive Mozilla Project: Addressing Controversy”I preferred the https://subfictional.com/10-years-of-open-source-bridge/ summary
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on “Saying Goodbye to Open Source Bridge”
