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All it proves is that comments that contribute nothing get downvoted. Especially when they explicitly draw attention to the fact that they are not contributing.
by gizmo686 8y ago
All it proves is that comments that contribute nothing get downvoted. Especially when they explicitly draw attention to the fact that they are not contributing.
- rdtsc 8y agoHmm I thought it nicely contributed a point that then was proved as well. Here is someone who supposedly works at Google which encourages "to bring your whole self to work" and where people are "supporting and sharing in open dialog" (paraphrasing from the video) afraid to make a comment on the video on a "hacker" news forum for fear of retaliation. This is not even a Google owned platform just some external forum. So they think someone will scour the web, find their comment, take down their name, head over to Google's HR / thought-police dept., report them and they'd face retaliation. Seems on point with discussion at hand to me.
- paganel 8y ago> All it proves is that comments that contribute nothing get downvoted. I actually think it contributed a lot to the discussion, hence why I upvoted it (even though it still looks grey to me now). More to the point, the OP seems to be a conservative Google employee who feels his/her job is threatened by the internal company culture at Google, internal company culture which can be seen in the the video itself.