You don't think that there are lessons for other startup entrepreneurs to learn here about PR and handling complaints?

I'd say there is an interesting conversation to be had, as suggested by the interesting conversation being had before the entry was deleted.

No, I'd say someone who loves drama has spent a lot of time reporting on something that's as interesting as what sort of hat my cat wears. If this sort of tripe made it to Hacker News on a regular basis it'd become a wasteland pretty soon.

I'm sorry that sexism in the tech industry doesn't interest you. But that isn't what the flag button is for. Some of us want to discuss the topic (that is very relevant to HN), it would be great if people could let us do so. If you don't want to read it, don't click it.

Argument invalid. If HN did not like the article, it would not be upvoted. If this was a trolololl debate happening then upvotes won't do much. If the trolololl debates got upvoted enough times, we'd get some calls for more Haskel/Erlang articles (actually I could really use a call for Clojure articles). HN is fairly well self-regulating.

I'm not sure what your point is, unless you think theres some sort of gaming of the system. If HN users did like the article it wouldn't have been flagged.

Oh yes, the marginalization of women in tech is definitely "internet drama that doesn't matter."

I kind of wish HN as a collective whole would check their privilege at the door.