The majority of my post was addressing the way that this is being discussed on here. There have been a lot of nasty comments on this issue ranging from accusing

The majority of my post was addressing the way that this is being discussed on here. There have been a lot of nasty comments on this issue ranging from accusing people of being Pinkertons and bots, to posts about declining meritocracy etc. It seems as though this thread has had a whole lot of posts conflating the two issues you mentioned and it just muddies the waters imho. As I mentioned, I think it should be a good-faith discussion across the board and I'm not a fan of bullying or misleading people. I could be misunderstanding this but the discussion about your second point has been in some cases in this thread been supplanted by people arguing about who is on the "right side" rather than the more immediate discussion of "is this an acceptable practice?" Like I said earlier, it's really fascinating how emotional this gets.