It's extra annoying that they've co-opted the Rosie the Riveter iconography. As if these people know anything about blue collar labor (male or female). The people on this list, Techcrunch publishing the list, and it showing up on the HN front-page basically sums up why I (and others) view "women in tech" as little more than class warfare against males who didn't have the privilege to go to Harvard.
dang|9 years ago
There's obviously a good point to be made about class here, but when you optimize for provocation rather than exploration, that's ideological battle. Not only is that not thoughtful discussion in its own right, it damages that possibility for the rest of us. In other words, comments like this are actively destructive to Hacker News, regardless of the position they argue for—indeed, the thing they damage most is thoughtful discussion of their own argument.
We wouldn't ban an account for a single comment like this, but we've explained this to you many times and asked you to stop abusing HN this way. Since you can't or won't stop, we've banned your account. These topics are divisive enough even without commenters coming to the well to poison it, and HN's requirement for thoughtful discussion is easy enough to follow for anyone who consciously chooses to.
Edit: There are other comments in this thread making a similar point about class but more in the form of inchoate rage. Obviously, inchoate rage is not thoughtful discussion, so those comments also break the site guidelines. Yet I'd rate them as less abusive than this one. One can still connect with the human feeling behind them, which is exactly what is missing in the hardened ideologue reciting predefined positions.
DanBC|9 years ago
> There are other comments in this thread making a similar point about class but more in the form of inchoate rage. Obviously, inchoate rage is not thoughtful discussion
You've warned those accounts before too, fwiw.