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This was news.... 3 days ago. I don't understand how it's rocketing up the HN front page only now.

jevgeni 11y ago
On FT or Bloomberg, yeah. HN has more important things to do, like arguing if one can call a variable "iGiveHead" in a FOSS project[1]... ____ [1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11018019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11018019
- ifdefdebug 11y ago
  You just had to find a way to pull the gender issue into a thread that has nothing to do with it right? Completely off topic, sorry.
  - jevgeni 11y ago
    No. To be clear: I used sarcasm[1] to highlight the in my opinion ridiculous preferences of HN readership. ___ [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm
    - ifdefdebug 11y ago
      I see. And of course I take that wikipedia link to sarcasm for sarcasm. Anyway, the heavy discussion around this post seems to disprove your point making your sarcasm harder to spot.
      - jevgeni 11y ago
        Yeah, it's very silly.
- Cyph0n 11y ago
  We have a winner here. If you don't like what people discuss here, go to Financial News.
  - jevgeni 11y ago
    Why thank you! If you don't like what I discuss here, go to another discussion.
    - Cyph0n 11y ago
      Nope.
      - jevgeni 11y ago
        OK. Settle down now, princess.
        dang 11y ago
        > OK. Settle down now, princess. This breaks the HN guidelines badly. We ban accounts that comment like this, so please don't do it again. Linking to a troll thread, taking this one wildly off-topic, and pompously posturing about how you're better than the rest of HN are bad too.
        jevgeni 11y ago
        Let me get this straight: you call the article I've linked to a troll thread yourself, but me complaining about this troll article reaching front page is "pompously posturing that I'm better than the rest of HN"? Is this what you are saying?
        AnimalMuppet 11y ago
        It's not that you're complaining about the article reaching front page. It's the insulting way you're doing it. You were out of line in the line that deng quoted (per HN guidelines). Second: deng is a (the?) moderator here. He's not taking sides in a dispute; he's trying to keep things within the HN guidelines. He can say that the article is a troll, and say that you were out of line in the way you complained, because both the article and you were out of line.
- becuzIwnatitobi 11y ago
  By linking that thread you're giving it more attention which is counterproductive.
  - jevgeni 11y ago
    Yes, because supressing and self-censoring certain subjects works so well to solve them. /s
dang 11y ago
We put it in the second-chance pool (described at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10705926 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10705926 and earlier posts linked from there) because the story seems significant and it wasn't discussed earlier. That gave it a few minutes near the bottom of the front page and user interest took it from there. Lord help us if we're not interested in things from 3 days ago.

On FT or Bloomberg, yeah. HN has more important things to do, like arguing if one can call a variable "iGiveHead" in a FOSS project[1]... ____ [1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11018019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11018019

ifdefdebug 11y ago
You just had to find a way to pull the gender issue into a thread that has nothing to do with it right? Completely off topic, sorry.
- jevgeni 11y ago
  No. To be clear: I used sarcasm[1] to highlight the in my opinion ridiculous preferences of HN readership. ___ [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm
  - ifdefdebug 11y ago
    I see. And of course I take that wikipedia link to sarcasm for sarcasm. Anyway, the heavy discussion around this post seems to disprove your point making your sarcasm harder to spot.
    - jevgeni 11y ago
      Yeah, it's very silly.
Cyph0n 11y ago
We have a winner here. If you don't like what people discuss here, go to Financial News.
- jevgeni 11y ago
  Why thank you! If you don't like what I discuss here, go to another discussion.
  - Cyph0n 11y ago
    Nope.
    - jevgeni 11y ago
      OK. Settle down now, princess.
      - dang 11y ago
        > OK. Settle down now, princess. This breaks the HN guidelines badly. We ban accounts that comment like this, so please don't do it again. Linking to a troll thread, taking this one wildly off-topic, and pompously posturing about how you're better than the rest of HN are bad too.
        jevgeni 11y ago
        Let me get this straight: you call the article I've linked to a troll thread yourself, but me complaining about this troll article reaching front page is "pompously posturing that I'm better than the rest of HN"? Is this what you are saying?
        AnimalMuppet 11y ago
        It's not that you're complaining about the article reaching front page. It's the insulting way you're doing it. You were out of line in the line that deng quoted (per HN guidelines). Second: deng is a (the?) moderator here. He's not taking sides in a dispute; he's trying to keep things within the HN guidelines. He can say that the article is a troll, and say that you were out of line in the way you complained, because both the article and you were out of line.
becuzIwnatitobi 11y ago
By linking that thread you're giving it more attention which is counterproductive.
- jevgeni 11y ago
  Yes, because supressing and self-censoring certain subjects works so well to solve them. /s

dang 11y ago

We put it in the second-chance pool (described at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10705926 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10705926 and earlier posts linked from there) because the story seems significant and it wasn't discussed earlier. That gave it a few minutes near the bottom of the front page and user interest took it from there. Lord help us if we're not interested in things from 3 days ago.