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Thanks for the clarification. It is unfortunate that your statements were taken out of context and spun. I typically look for the original source, and am relati
by lauradhamilton 13y ago
Thanks for the clarification. It is unfortunate that your statements were taken out of context and spun. I typically look for the original source, and am relatively skeptical of poorly edited viral stories such as this one.
With that said, I do think that the moderation / upvoting / flagging of Hacker News is overwhelmingly male. I sometimes see sexist comments here, and there doesn't seem to be a good system for women to flag and remove those. This is a problem in my opinion.
- kordless 13y agoThere's a comment system. A sane, non-blaming comment calling out sexist comments can do wonders for swaying the opinion of others. The last thing we need to solve this is to start segmenting ourselves on here.
- MartinCron 13y agoI sometimes see sexist comments here Me too. And I will downvote, comment, or both. The system isn't perfect, but there are people who are trying.
- ionforce 13y agoWhy are you linking someone's gender to the ability to flag and remove sexist comments? Are you saying that women are allowed to make sexist comments about men? Sexism is everyone's problem, regardless of gender expression.
- yetanotherphd 13y agoCould you give some examples of the kinds of post you would like to censor?
- yawaramin 13y agoAdmittedly, there's no 'flag' or 'remove' option. There is however a downvote option--but only for users with enough 'karma'. You and I, being (relatively) new users, don't have enough karma to downvote posts. _That_ is unrelated to gender.