It only takes a few people flagging a story for it to bumped off the front page. If the general premise of "feminism threads" is that some men in technology tr

It only takes a few people flagging a story for it to bumped off the front page. If the general premise of "feminism threads" is that some men in technology treat most women in technology badly, and HN readers are mostly men in technology, it make sense that any "feminism thread" would acquire some flags. And then, when you read the story, you realize that it's "anti-feminism", and so you get the feminists also flagging it. And then on top of all this, you get a third group of people, those who are just sick to death of the whole thing, also flagging it. Whoever's left in the middle has been run over by the pros, the antis, and the don't care's.