It reads to me like someone whose had to deal with a lot of this:

> —we didn't originally think we'd need to say that, but it turns out people just cannot resist saying creepy, sexual shit about anything they perceive to be feminine.

Personally speaking, I knew exactly what 90% of the comments were going to be about just from the front page. Seeing that the dev team isn't from the US explained it, but yeah, it has to be hard out there for non-US teams to submit to HN.

The previous poster is giving good advice.

I can tell you don't see it, but there are a multiple aspects of the ballerina site that will offend many of the people they presumably want to engage. I assume that's unintentional. The best thing for them to do is to understand the problems, fix them, and apologize to the offended people.

Dismissing the words of the person explaining the problems and providing good advice on dealing with them is a good way to remain frustrated and fail.