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Watch the weasels dance: the jig is almost up. INB4 1000 downvotes from intolerant agenda pushers, sorry you have to read this in grey on grey, it's not my cho

• dang 11y ago
  Please don't post unsubstantive comments to Hacker News.
  • microcolonel 11y ago
    Does a comment on this article truly need to be substantive? They took a very reasonable article which was respectful to both Ellen Pao and the Reddit community, and completely rewrote it as an opinion piece. Now they're defending that course of action while pretending to be concerned about it. I think this can accurately be described as "weaseling". I think it's taking place because people are starting to notice what happens to these articles, which may soon prove dire to the business they've built on these practices. In other words: "Watch the weasels dance: the jig is almost up.", go read a writing style guide and they'll tell you to cut unnecessary verbiage.
    • dang 11y ago
      > Does a comment on this article truly need to be substantive? Yes. Just because an article is lame doesn't mean the thread should be. (By the way, please don't go on about downvoting in HN comments—that's so invariably lame that it has not one but two guidelines against it. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Appropriately enough, they're at the bottom.)