Because they got a lot of trolls and Apple fans. The decision was not made lightly.

Honestly, knowing what I know about marcan, the decision was probably the result of an overwhelming/strong emotional reaction.

Not to just shit all over him or anything, but it really sucks to see someone who is genuinely top-ten-on-earth when it comes to "real hacking" struggle so much with socialisation and mental health.

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applfanboysbgon 3 hours ago | parent [-]

It is weird to blame the victim for reacting to being harassed by a mob. That is a normal thing to have a reaction to. Perhaps rather than blaming people's social skills and mental health, we should instead blame the culture that normalises harassing people on the internet, even to the point of suicide (as happened in byuu's case). You are basically advocating that it is better for individuals to change to accept a shitty society as a given rather than advocating for society to change to be less shitty.

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AussieWog93 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I'm genuinely unfamiliar of the harassment campaign that HN launched against him.

(I am familiar with some comments debating the validity of Byuu/Near's gender identity, and marcan's extremely strong reaction to that, but no actual harassment campaigns)

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throwawaypath 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

>It is weird to blame the victim for reacting to being harassed by a mob.

It's not victim blaming, marcan was clearly mentally unwell. He delusionally thought there was some harassment mob after him. After the fallout with Linux kernel devs, the lolipedo accusations, and him being outed as the vtuber Asahi Lina, he arguably did the correct thing: deleted every social media account and abandoned Asahi Linux. I hope he stepped away from screens and spent some time outdoors.

	▲	AKSF_Ackermann an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I am not sure how what happened can be considered "being outed", the vtuber's puppeteer was obvious from day one to anyone who was paying any attention at all, it is just that a lot of people decided to uphold the kayfabe. (And I don't blame them, at least before the lkml crashout it was a pretty fun character.)

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geodel 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This marcan person had problem with Go, he had problem with Apple fans, he had problems with linux committers, so much he left internet or something. To say everyone but marcan was wrong is just a kind of fanboyism and it hardly helps marcan.

This person liked to dish out as much as next person but display extreme reaction when served.

	▲	throwaway27448 38 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Being harassed by neckbeards would drive anyone insane

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rowanG077 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This is not a dichotomy. It's not healthy to take random online comments to heart so much. It's also bad to make such ridiculous comments. Both can be true at the same time.