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Re:Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo by dang on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @04:06PM (#15021865)
Would you please not break the HN guidelines by (a) arguing snarkily and superciliously or (b) going on about downvotes? Trainwrecks though these recent threads have been, we're still trying for a higher standard of discussion on HN, and comments like this one make take us all in the wrong direction.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo by peterwwillis on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @06:01PM (#15023096)
Someone posts an ignorant comment. I provide a relevant, actually helpful and fact-based reply and get downvoted. So I get pissed off, say something pissy, and then provide a ton of supporting evidence in response. But it doesn't affect the votes, and probably hasn't changed any minds at all.

Comments are the problem if you find civility more important than rationality.

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