I discovered this the other day, and I was really surprised at how silently it happens. So, plover.net is run by a writer called Stephen Bonds. He's got article

I discovered this the other day, and I was really surprised at how silently it happens. So, plover.net is run by a writer called Stephen Bonds. He's got article upon article doing what I believe is very insightful criticism of nerd/programming culture, explaining how he believes the artistic and political biases of "nerdy" people come about. Someone linked to his article about Ender's Game (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=376820 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=376820), which opens up with a comparison to pornography that he carries throughout. The original submission title was something like Ender's Game Review: It's Porn. It's an accurate edit. Reading through the comments I found this exchange > jimbokun 1723 days ago - Ugh. My kingdom for a submission down arrow. Citing Jesus and mocking Christianity as part of reviewing Ender's game totally jumps the shark. This is such an obvious troll, I am utterly disappointed that Hacker News has collectively up-modded this close to the top of the front page (as I write this). I thought this community was better than this. >>pg 1723 days ago - Yeah, I thought the same thing. I considered killing it, but it didn't seem quite deliberately dishonest enough. I just took "it's porn" out of the title. I suspect that's why this got so much attention. So, here's an author with a website full of essays talking about the issue with the unacknowledged self-selection bias that afflicts geeks, criticizing one of their most beloved works, and the response is "he must be fishing for views. let's not give him attention" (btw, Bonds' website does not have ads in it). Truly bizarre.