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Why in the hell is this posted--and upvoted--on HN? Come on, people.

yourbandsucks 8y ago
What's wrong with a lifestyle piece on a Saturday? If it were about a twitch streamer rather than a mommy blogger would you say the same?
lusmd 8y ago
A coder broke into a new genre of website and very successfully monetized it. Yes, why indeed would HN be interested in this /female/ part of Internet culture and commerce?
- dang 8y ago
  Please don't start a gender flamewar, or any flamewar. Also, be kind and not snarky. These are important parts of the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html HN readers are interested in lots of different things. That's actually the point of this site. Not everyone is interested in the same things, though, and sometimes people complain about what appears here, even though the guidelines ask them not to. Even if someone does that, please don't respond by breaking the guidelines worse yourself. Edit: I also feel like someone should defend the HN community against the implied slight in what you posted here. It isn't good to make such misleading insinuations, because (a) they worsen the problem you're complaining about, and (b) they're not true. To see the latter, look no further than https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19822123 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19822123, which has a similar topic to this one and is currently at #3 on HN's front page. This quite interesting thread, which spent most of yesterday on the front page, is another example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19804772 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19804772. Edit: and now we have Ethiopian midwives at #10: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19837216 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19837216.
dang 8y ago
Would you mind reviewing the site guidelines? They ask you not to post like this. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html The submission is on topic because it's intellectually interesting. Indeed, we put it in the second-chance pool (described at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380) for that reason.

What's wrong with a lifestyle piece on a Saturday? If it were about a twitch streamer rather than a mommy blogger would you say the same?

lusmd 8y ago

A coder broke into a new genre of website and very successfully monetized it. Yes, why indeed would HN be interested in this /female/ part of Internet culture and commerce?

dang 8y ago
Please don't start a gender flamewar, or any flamewar. Also, be kind and not snarky. These are important parts of the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html HN readers are interested in lots of different things. That's actually the point of this site. Not everyone is interested in the same things, though, and sometimes people complain about what appears here, even though the guidelines ask them not to. Even if someone does that, please don't respond by breaking the guidelines worse yourself. Edit: I also feel like someone should defend the HN community against the implied slight in what you posted here. It isn't good to make such misleading insinuations, because (a) they worsen the problem you're complaining about, and (b) they're not true. To see the latter, look no further than https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19822123 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19822123, which has a similar topic to this one and is currently at #3 on HN's front page. This quite interesting thread, which spent most of yesterday on the front page, is another example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19804772 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19804772. Edit: and now we have Ethiopian midwives at #10: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19837216 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19837216.

dang 8y ago

Would you mind reviewing the site guidelines? They ask you not to post like this. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html The submission is on topic because it's intellectually interesting. Indeed, we put it in the second-chance pool (described at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380) for that reason.