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>FWIW Damore is far from controversial here on HN. Just to be clear, in what way? Anti-Google pro-Damore I presume?
by drilldrive 8y ago
>FWIW Damore is far from controversial here on HN.
Just to be clear, in what way? Anti-Google pro-Damore I presume?
- erentz 8y agoFrom what I’ve seen (so it’s anecdotal) they seemed to attract emotional debate, and lots of downvotes, and flags, and people making throwaways before commenting, etc. In that way controversial. To my mind when you see lots of downvoted comments it’s a pretty good sign of a controversial topic because I never usually see that on purely tech topics ok HN. From which I infer on tech topics a bad comment doesn’t get upvoted and sinks because good comments rise. On non tech topics like gender comments (bad or good) can quickly be grayed out by downvotes. I suppose it might be an interesting hypothesis to test somehow if historical HN posts could be classified into topic and we had the voting and flagging data.