It's a tempting feeling to get, and a contagious one, but no—the only inconvenience we care about is that of HN readers who don't want to read tedious flamewars tacked like burning barnacles onto the top comment. I'm kind of glad you said that, though, because usually the sinister implication goes the other way, Gitlab being a YC-funded startup and all.
Speaking of convenience, it's not that inconvenient to scroll down to find the flamewar. Seems like a reasonable balance to me.
"don't think we'll succeed teaching white, male middle managers empathy and compassion anytime soon so let's limit their scope of damage"
So when this guy makes workshops to spread his bigotry he is fighting for inclusion and when I speak up I am fighting against diversity initiatives? Are you for real?
But it is hilarious that posts on gender and race issue get flagged to death, posts about class are always voted to the top, and anything that threatens the status quo spurs outrage.
I'm thinking of adding to the site guidelines to please not post generalizations about the HN community unless you have data. It seems almost always to be associated with low-information, divisive comments. I don't mean to pick on you personally; lots of users do it. But almost always in bad parts of threads.
Edit: also why I asked for the number of upvotes. According to him it was 45? That's a lot.
People cannot be taught empathy through corporate courses. It doesn't matter if they are straight, male, or whatever. Probably mentioned male middle managers because management is mostly male. I'm not this easily offended.
Definitely not, it was two steps further from the topic.
1) It was talking about a competitor's company, which is fine
2) It was talking about a non-technical aspect of the competitor's company
However I would love to see this topic come up more, just not on gitlab's stuff.