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This comment didn’t need the random dig at trans people.

• bpodgursky 4y ago
  It's crude but observationally accurate. The type of person drawn to being a reddit mod: - Does not have a family (no time otherwise) - Does not have a full-time job - Spends an extraordinary amount of time Very Online (aka on reddit) Those are all coupled extremely tightly with a variety of mental health disorders, and you end up with a disproportionate number of people who are anxious, neurotic, bipolar, depressed, and with gender spectrum disorders.
  • 4ggr0 4y ago
    One can mention all of these points and start a discussion without calling trans people useless, I think that's why this person complained and why the original comment is now flagged. It's also not really based on hard facts, as I doubt that Reddit releases statistics about their mods sexualities. All in all, making an off-topic comment which is just insulting trans people is maybe not the kind of comment we want to see on HN. Ironically, I could see such a comment gaining traction on certain subreddits.
    • bpodgursky 4y ago
      Yeah. It was not framed in a way useful to the discussion. I did want to separate out the fact that it was needlessly offensive (true) from the truth of the underlying claim about the distribution (which probably true).
  • differentView 4y ago
    Got sources to back up your claims? You sound almost proud of your bigotry.