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After seeing all of the complaints about that event on Twitter, I was definitely surprised to find no mention of it on HN. I wonder why this wasn't worthy of di
by cstejerean 13y ago
After seeing all of the complaints about that event on Twitter, I was definitely surprised to find no mention of it on HN. I wonder why this wasn't worthy of discussion here.
- minimaxir 13y agoThere was discussion, but it was flagged off the front page immediately. http://valleywag.gawker.com/techs-grossest-website-hits-a-new-low-1279276737 http://valleywag.gawker.com/techs-grossest-website-hits-a-ne...
- untog 13y agoIt happens any/every time gender is discussed on Hacker News. There was a hackathon planned last year that boasted "women, booze & massages". Numerous threads about it were immediately flagged off the site. Same the Geeklist issue with a promo video that had a woman in her underwear. It would be one thing if the HN community was capable of looking at these issues and having a reasoned discussion about them. But no, flagged immediately. Heroic hackers jumping on the gender grenade so the rest of us don't even have to think about it.