Corporate and professional dynamics often make it to the front page because it's important to many technical workers and hackers who have to make a living. This is a topic that's important to many women in tech, as they are often dictated how to present in a way that's unnatural to them in order to be more "professional" (read tfa).

This is important to many readers of hacker news, as not everybody who is a hacker is a man (I am a woman who is also a hacker, for example, and I use a lot of exclamation marks in my writing, so, I found it interesting that this is noted by someone else, so I'm personally glad it's on the front page).

I'm assuming you're asking genuinely, so this is a genuine attempt to explain :)

> I'm personally glad it's on the front page

I'm split on that, as it made me check the README I'm rewriting, and compare it to the previous version. After noticing an increase in the amount of exclamation points and enthusiasm, I think I may decide to rewrite it again, to cut down on the enthusiasm.

Besides being an obvious waste of time, why should tech be boring?

I don't want it boring! I want my vim and my xterm to be cute!

I took it as an excuse to add more exclamation marks!

Because one person thought it was interesting enough to submit and a bunch of other people thought it was interesting enough to upvote.