I wanted to say that but also as the first commenter I didn't want to start the flame war I was asking us to avoid. There's definitely a lot more non-conforming people of all types in tech (I came to work with nail polish on today, by way of example) and it pains me to watch what should otherwise be culture-war free spaces get overtaken by it. HN isn't some bastion of "wokeness" (god I hate that term but it's a useful shortcut) but so much of the other commentary / social media spaces I frequent are caught up in the current right-wing culture warring and I'd just like some place where I can read about techy stuff without having to wade through more shitty comments about me and my friends.
mutant_glofish|2 years ago
The way to do that is to simply flag the submissions you think don't belong here, and that's it.
From HN guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html):
> Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did.
jamiepenney|2 years ago