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The community's lack of courage to even discuss these issues is pretty depressing. I agree that this topic merits discussion and shouldn't be flagged, but you'

The community's lack of courage to even discuss these issues is pretty depressing. I agree that this topic merits discussion and shouldn't be flagged, but you're just wrong when you say the community lacks the courage to discuss these topics. https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=sexism&sortby=points+desc&start=0 https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=sexism... edit: Three of the four articles you link in your reply to this post have well over 100 comments each, so you're only supporting my position that the community is very much willing to discuss this topic, and in fact, does so pretty regularly. Any topic that hits the front page over and over again (in this case, discussion regarding TitStare) gets flagged as people get fatigued by the same repetitive discussion. This happened with SOPA, and Snowden and every other issue that reached maximum saturation in the community.

untog 13y ago
The following articles were all flagged off the front page of the site, just in this last week: "'Titstare' app at TechCrunch: women in tech deserve better": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6352595 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6352595 "Tit Stare – We wish to apologise": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6357607 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6357607 "Business Insider CTO Forced to Resign Following Twitter Firestorm": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6360328 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6360328 "NPR: Sexism In The Tech Industry Takes Center Stage": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6374508 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6374508 Sadly, HNSearch does not show the lifespan of articles on the front page of the site. Oh, and we can now add this thread to that list: http://i.imgur.com/GhU3mRV.png http://i.imgur.com/GhU3mRV.png EDIT: All those threads do have plenty of comments, because people went out of their way to link to threads that were flagged off the home page. It presents a huge visibility problem - there were responses in the Business Insider thread asking "What happened at TC Disrupt", because they never found out about it. The fact that we both have to edit our posts because this thread has been killed within minutes of posting ought to indicate to you that flagging is real, and does happen.

untog 13y ago

The following articles were all flagged off the front page of the site, just in this last week: "'Titstare' app at TechCrunch: women in tech deserve better": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6352595 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6352595 "Tit Stare – We wish to apologise": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6357607 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6357607 "Business Insider CTO Forced to Resign Following Twitter Firestorm": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6360328 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6360328 "NPR: Sexism In The Tech Industry Takes Center Stage": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6374508 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6374508 Sadly, HNSearch does not show the lifespan of articles on the front page of the site. Oh, and we can now add this thread to that list: http://i.imgur.com/GhU3mRV.png http://i.imgur.com/GhU3mRV.png EDIT: All those threads do have plenty of comments, because people went out of their way to link to threads that were flagged off the home page. It presents a huge visibility problem - there were responses in the Business Insider thread asking "What happened at TC Disrupt", because they never found out about it. The fact that we both have to edit our posts because this thread has been killed within minutes of posting ought to indicate to you that flagging is real, and does happen.