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Re:The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News (2019) by duckhelmet on Friday July 28, 2023 @05:17PM (#36913460)
“I have noticed certain trends. When stories that focus on structural barriers faced by women in the workplace, or on diversity in tech, or on race or masculinity—stories, admittedly, that are more intriguing to me, a person interested in the humanities, than stories on technical topics—hit the front page, users often flag them, presumably for being off topic, so fast that hardly any comments accrue.”

a. That's because there is no barriers to to women in the tech workplace. It just that they have a social life outside computers.

b. This is a tech forum, we only want to read tech stuff.

c. Your imaginary travails are of no interest to us.

“Jordan Peterson debate on the gender pay gap”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMcjxSThD54

Re:The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News (2019) by tiffanyg on Friday July 28, 2023 @05:22PM (#36913517)
d. None of the above
Re:The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News (2019) by duckhelmet on Friday July 28, 2023 @06:05PM (#36913976)
> d. None of the above

e. Ok, what personal stuff would you want to talk about?