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Engineers with unicorn / my little pony avatars is a slight red flag to me. I am as socialist as they come (I am not even American, I am Brit and a left wing),

Engineers with unicorn / my little pony avatars is a slight red flag to me. I am as socialist as they come (I am not even American, I am Brit and a left wing), but I always try to not engage with those folks on twitter, to easy to get caught up in personal attacks if anything you say is remotely misunderstood. It can quite easily turn into a digital lynching.

revelio 3y ago
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- mbaraa 3y ago
  This is why many hiring managers these days have a covert policy to never hire any of these people, they can absolutely ruin a team, become a management nightmare and have a high chance of causing reputational damage. Even though in larger companies there is often a diversity drive to increase their number. It's just not worth the risk of hiring from this cohort.
- hsjqllzlfkf 3y ago
  Are anime people the same as the pronoun people? I'm aware there's an overlap but I'm not sure it's significant.
- xena 3y ago
  Hi, I use pony/anime/furry avatars at work and my blog is loved on this website for its technical content and innovative use of the Socratic method. People like me exist.
  - sirl1on 3y ago
    Care to share your blog?
    - judge2020 3y ago
      https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=xeiaso.net https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=xeiaso.net / previously https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=christine.website https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=christine.website
  - revelio 3y ago
    Sure, that's great. It's just a flag, a signal to look closer, that's all.
npteljes 3y ago
My impression is that a large number of toxic people, or outright grifters, join them. In a way that a protest has a bunch of people who don't care as much about the cause, as they just want to fuck shit up. I genuinely find value in many of such groups' original ideas, but it's impossible to separate them from what they have turned into, especially when speaking about them to other people.
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revelio 3y ago

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mbaraa 3y ago
This is why many hiring managers these days have a covert policy to never hire any of these people, they can absolutely ruin a team, become a management nightmare and have a high chance of causing reputational damage. Even though in larger companies there is often a diversity drive to increase their number. It's just not worth the risk of hiring from this cohort.
hsjqllzlfkf 3y ago
Are anime people the same as the pronoun people? I'm aware there's an overlap but I'm not sure it's significant.
xena 3y ago
Hi, I use pony/anime/furry avatars at work and my blog is loved on this website for its technical content and innovative use of the Socratic method. People like me exist.
- sirl1on 3y ago
  Care to share your blog?
  - judge2020 3y ago
    https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=xeiaso.net https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=xeiaso.net / previously https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=christine.website https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=christine.website
- revelio 3y ago
  Sure, that's great. It's just a flag, a signal to look closer, that's all.

npteljes 3y ago

My impression is that a large number of toxic people, or outright grifters, join them. In a way that a protest has a bunch of people who don't care as much about the cause, as they just want to fuck shit up. I genuinely find value in many of such groups' original ideas, but it's impossible to separate them from what they have turned into, especially when speaking about them to other people.

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