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Kindly find me on Hacker News a single discussion thread which contains comments like this about a male writer of a blog post. Are you kidding me? Just about
by bermanoid 15y ago
Kindly find me on Hacker News a single discussion thread which contains comments like this about a male writer of a blog post.
Are you kidding me?
Just about every post that touches on any remotely controversial issue engenders dozens of negative responses.
Post something about how Git's the shit? You'll get a bunch of responses about how crummy Git's error messages are, or about how user-hostile the interface is.
Post something about how Jave programmers suck balls? You'll get a bunch of comments about how bad Lisp-lifers perform when they're thrust into situations where they have to code Java.
Post about NoSQL, and you'll get a bunch of people telling you that you're an idiot for even considering MongoDB when PostgreSQL would do just fine.
Hell, post something about how some obscure paper about brane theory resolves the OPERA experiment and FTL neutrinos, and I'll probably personally tell you a tale about what an idiot the author of the paper is, and why his PhD should be stripped from him for publishing such drivel.
People here are hostile. They criticize by default, and that's the strength of the community. We never accept articles that don't offer evidence for their points, whether it's politically correct or not.
I've seen far nastier responses to most anti-Apple and anti-Google blog posts than to this one...
- gordonguthrie 15y ago> Post something about how Git's the shit? You'll get a bunch of responses about how crummy Git's error messages are, or about how user-hostile the interface is. Critical comments about Git, indeed. > Post something about how Jave programmers suck balls? You'll get a bunch of comments about how bad Lisp-lifers perform when they're thrust into situations where they have to code Java. Critical comments about Java, indeed. > Post about NoSQL, and you'll get a bunch of people telling you that you're an idiot for even considering MongoDB when PostgreSQL would do just fine. Finally critical comments about you the poster. I return to my original question: Kindly find me on Hacker News a single discussion thread which contains comments like this about a male writer of a blog post. A respected technical author writes a blog post and the response is a stream of ad hominem attacks on them with no supporting evidence.
- Tichy 15y agoObviously discussing with you is completely pointless, because you will only see what you want to see.
- gordonguthrie 15y agoWhat I want to see is a link to a post in which a male poster has been monstered in entirely personal terms with no supporting evidence. That is precisely what I am not seeing, despite protestations that this behaviour is common, normal, etc, etc...
- Tichy 15y agoI tend to not bookmark such comments, in fact they tend to get flagged and buried. There is no easy way to search for them either. Except for this thread (not saying it qualifies, but it probably does in your estimation), can you point to other posts were women were being "monstered" for no reason? Although candidates for those are easier to search for because they have the word "female" in the title. Incidentally all the posts I remember that deal with women in IT are written by women.
- roguecoder 15y agohttp://martinfowler.com/bliki/SmutOnRails.html http://martinfowler.com/bliki/SmutOnRails.html http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2010/02/why-diversity-matter-meritocracy.html http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2010/02/why-diversity-m... http://hoydenabouttown.com//20080723.2001/matthew-garrett-on-ally-work-and-the-linux-community/ http://hoydenabouttown.com//20080723.2001/matthew-garrett-on... ...off the top of my head.
- Tichy 15y agoI think you talk about something else. The topic was HN discussions. That there are examples in the industry is no question.