People reading HN at work are unlikely to make their colleagues feel uncomfortable. People looking at (image-based) porn at work are extremely likely to make a

People reading HN at work are unlikely to make their colleagues feel uncomfortable. People looking at (image-based) porn at work are extremely likely to make at least some of their colleagues feel uncomfortable. That's not cool. It doesn't really matter if you feel your colleagues ought or ought not to feel uncomfortable - some of them almost certainly will, and it's frankly antisocial behaviour to act in ways that will offend your colleagues, regardless of whether they "should" be offended. The particular nature of the porn is irrelevant - whether objectifying, sexist of otherwise. (Except if it's text-only perhaps. That would get in people's face much less.) (And all of the above would be equally true, for example, for image-heavy neo-fascist boards.)