Hiring discrimination: a problem for men in female-dominated occupations

Re:Hiring discrimination: a problem for men in female-domina... by dang on Sunday April 24, 2022 @05:30AM (#31142483)

Would you please stop posting flamewar comments to HN? You've done it so often that I've started to wince when I see your username.

This has nothing to do with your views; I don't have any idea what they are and haven't read the context in this thread. I just saw this comment because it was flagged, and I recognize that this happens a lot with your account. That's not cool and not what this site is for.

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

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Re:Hiring discrimination: a problem for men in female-domina... by dheera on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @06:51PM (#31174149)

I don't think it was a flamewar comment at all, but I do believe all this, including this style of moderation is really just shutting up honest productive discussion, and essentially translating to "don't post things that disagree with the majority opinion". I believe this sort of flagging and moderation exacerbates the echo chamber effect.

See for example discussion at https://bookface.ycombinator.com/posts/48890

I edit-deleted the comment in protest of how the community has decided to treat minority opinions, I did not mean to start a flame war.

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Re:Hiring discrimination: a problem for men in female-domina... by dang on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @08:25PM (#31174837)

I don't remember what your views are on any of these topics but I'm pretty sure plenty of HN users express views similar close to yours while remaining within the site guidelines: thoughtful, respectful to others, substantive. You don't need snark, swipes, or putdowns—editing them out makes comments better, not worse.

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

p.s. Bookface is a private forum, so a link to it doesn't make much sense in a public place like HN.

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