Suppressing this conversation would just result in more people like the parent with well-intentioned but poorly thought-out and regressive views. Certainly, som

Suppressing this conversation would just result in more people like the parent with well-intentioned but poorly thought-out and regressive views. Certainly, sometimes you'll get a post like Uptrenda's and it's just a concern troll fishing for a conflict, but that not need always be the case (and I suspect here it isn't, fwiw). Even then, the resulting discussion can change minds and is a positive thing - in spite of being perhaps monotonous to people who are already on board. I think a mod kicking off a meta-topic about the quality of discussion on HN every time he sees a post that falls into one of a few buckets, lowers the signal-to-noise more than posts like Uptrenda's.