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Are you sure you're not mistaking the reason behind the flagging? This story deserves to be flagged for the same reason the half dozen other posts related to t

Are you sure you're not mistaking the reason behind the flagging? This story deserves to be flagged for the same reason the half dozen other posts related to this dramatic internet drama need to be flagged. Because it's drama. Were there actionable advice in the linked article that one could use to improve one's business, it would be a reasonable thing to submit to this site. Were there anything whatsoever to do with technology or computer programming in the linked article, it might deserve to be submitted here. But there's none of that. So it goes someplace else.

untog 14y ago
Are you suggesting that every non-flagged article on Hacker News contains actionable advice one could use to improve their business? Because I think we all know that is not true. Articles of all kinds are popular on HN- some tech, some business, some lifestyle, some that have absolutely nothing to do with tech. But mysteriously, gender seems to be about the only topic not permitted.
- jasonkester 14y ago
  On the homepage right now, I see 27 tech-related articles, and 3 pieces related to this drama, all of which have been flagged by several people. So yes, that's what I'm suggesting. It's also what the guidelines state explicitly.
  - untog 14y ago
    It's 100% definitely not what the guidelines state. In what to submit, it clearly states: "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" Discussions about gender would fulfill that criteria, no? There's a post on the front page right now entitled "Dating with Graph Search". Another called "Love for Makers". By your criteria we should have all flagged the posts about Steve Jobs' death, right?
nikcub 14y ago
> Because it's drama. Ye guys, go back to reading about that one guy who wrote a less popular web framework bitching about every other web framework.
- untog 14y ago
  I dunno, did they use semicolons or not?

untog 14y ago

Are you suggesting that every non-flagged article on Hacker News contains actionable advice one could use to improve their business? Because I think we all know that is not true. Articles of all kinds are popular on HN- some tech, some business, some lifestyle, some that have absolutely nothing to do with tech. But mysteriously, gender seems to be about the only topic not permitted.

jasonkester 14y ago
On the homepage right now, I see 27 tech-related articles, and 3 pieces related to this drama, all of which have been flagged by several people. So yes, that's what I'm suggesting. It's also what the guidelines state explicitly.
- untog 14y ago
  It's 100% definitely not what the guidelines state. In what to submit, it clearly states: "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" Discussions about gender would fulfill that criteria, no? There's a post on the front page right now entitled "Dating with Graph Search". Another called "Love for Makers". By your criteria we should have all flagged the posts about Steve Jobs' death, right?

nikcub 14y ago

> Because it's drama. Ye guys, go back to reading about that one guy who wrote a less popular web framework bitching about every other web framework.

untog 14y ago
I dunno, did they use semicolons or not?