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I vouched for your flagkilled comments, maybe that will help unkill them. While I don't agree with much of what you say, you're presenting your ideas in a thou

I vouched for your flagkilled comments, maybe that will help unkill them. While I don't agree with much of what you say, you're presenting your ideas in a thoughtful and respectful manner, so I don't personally feel they should be killed.

jacquesm 11y ago
I understand your good intentions, but feel that you've been social engineered. Those comments were flagged for good reasons, in the most positive from it is detestable that someone would try to use HN as a platform to advocate the exact opposite of what HN should attempt to stand for, in a more negative form this is simply trolling. As a result of not flagging comments like these I'd expect HN female participation to drop and eventually you'd see fewer female YC founders. Which is exactly what the GP seems to desire since that increases the chances of them to fulfill their reproductive duty to mankind or whatever he feels it is they should be doing instead. Novelty accounts spouting non-sensical flame-bait viewpoints relegating 50% of the population to bearing a minimum of 4 to 5 children (see other comments by the same user) are rightly flagged, they're not the kind of thing we should either tolerate or encourage. That people trying to advocate such viewpoints play 'by the rules' to couch their trash in 'a thoughtful and respectful wrapper' goes past the fact that the 'flag' option is there for more reasons than just the tone of a comment (for instance, to flag flame-bait content), besides that comments that solely complaint about downvotes or flags are off-topic.
- waterlesscloud 11y ago
  And I feel you've been social engineered to believe opinions you disagree with are harmful. So here we are. Fewer YC female founders as a result of this thread? Seriously????
  - jacquesm 11y ago
    No, I'm fine with lots of opinions that I disagree with and the majority of those are not harmful. But this sort of drivel has no place on HN as far as I'm concerned, in fact if this were to become the norm (that you can spout any sort of nonsense as long as you do it 'respectfully') then I feel my time on HN should come to an end. And maybe it should. As for your edit: yes, exactly. That's the sort of thing that will eventually result if you condone this sort of trash, it won't happen overnight but it definitely will happen.
    - waterlesscloud 11y ago
      No, it really won't happen. It really, seriously will not. "Nonsense" "Trash" "Drivel" You're not OK with opinions that vary from your own. You language is pretty clear on that point.

jacquesm 11y ago

I understand your good intentions, but feel that you've been social engineered. Those comments were flagged for good reasons, in the most positive from it is detestable that someone would try to use HN as a platform to advocate the exact opposite of what HN should attempt to stand for, in a more negative form this is simply trolling. As a result of not flagging comments like these I'd expect HN female participation to drop and eventually you'd see fewer female YC founders. Which is exactly what the GP seems to desire since that increases the chances of them to fulfill their reproductive duty to mankind or whatever he feels it is they should be doing instead. Novelty accounts spouting non-sensical flame-bait viewpoints relegating 50% of the population to bearing a minimum of 4 to 5 children (see other comments by the same user) are rightly flagged, they're not the kind of thing we should either tolerate or encourage. That people trying to advocate such viewpoints play 'by the rules' to couch their trash in 'a thoughtful and respectful wrapper' goes past the fact that the 'flag' option is there for more reasons than just the tone of a comment (for instance, to flag flame-bait content), besides that comments that solely complaint about downvotes or flags are off-topic.

waterlesscloud 11y ago
And I feel you've been social engineered to believe opinions you disagree with are harmful. So here we are. Fewer YC female founders as a result of this thread? Seriously????
- jacquesm 11y ago
  No, I'm fine with lots of opinions that I disagree with and the majority of those are not harmful. But this sort of drivel has no place on HN as far as I'm concerned, in fact if this were to become the norm (that you can spout any sort of nonsense as long as you do it 'respectfully') then I feel my time on HN should come to an end. And maybe it should. As for your edit: yes, exactly. That's the sort of thing that will eventually result if you condone this sort of trash, it won't happen overnight but it definitely will happen.
  - waterlesscloud 11y ago
    No, it really won't happen. It really, seriously will not. "Nonsense" "Trash" "Drivel" You're not OK with opinions that vary from your own. You language is pretty clear on that point.