> I want to get the author to read this: https://medium.com/@maradydd/when-nerds-collide-31895b01e68c https://medium.com/@maradydd/when-nerds-collide-31895b01e6

> I want to get the author to read this: https://medium.com/@maradydd/when-nerds-collide-31895b01e68c https://medium.com/@maradydd/when-nerds-collide-31895b01e68c Please no. That article is genuinely terrible -- it's the worst of hacker exceptionalism coupled with an embedded false equivalence between social rejection and rape. It's a direct symptom of the effect where an echo chamber produces conservative extremism. I know it's quite popular on HN in part because it provides people with a framework to justify the misbehavior of the social structure they're participating in (somewhat ironic in the face of the "we don't participate in ambient social structures" absurdity the article proposes), but it's fundamentally misguided and that acceptance is itself a problem with this community.