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I think the type of comments you mentioned are not only relatively rare, but they are quickly downvoted when they occur. The thing that HN does not do well is

I think the type of comments you mentioned are not only relatively rare, but they are quickly downvoted when they occur. The thing that HN does not do well is political correctness. I think the Richards case was jarring to most tech folks (men and women) because someone was fired for being very mildly politically incorrect in a private conversation.

jacobian 14y ago
> I think the type of comments you mentioned are not only relatively rare, but they are quickly downvoted when they occur. Well, we see a very different subset of comments, apparently. Look at the top comments in this very thread, for example...