[juneyi]

why would this be considered a flagged post? i'm sort of new to HN so honestly asking. I tried reading the guidelines but can't narrow down under what it may be violating. would it fall under political? I saw the author's background and it seems like he works for a newspaper.

[wk_end]

IMO it really ought not to be. It's exposing - and critiquing, if a bit too forcefully and perhaps not exceptionally well - aspects of the corporate culture of one of the biggest companies in tech. Seems very relevant to HN.

But: HN probably has a lot of loyal Microsofties who might be taking a kind of personal offence to Zitron's caricaturization of their company culture, a lot of folks who work at similar large-corps with similar cultures who feel attacked by proxy, and probably a fair number of MBA/founder-types who've similarly bought into the "growth mindset" Kool-Aid. So the argument (I guess) is that it's probably a little bit too polemical to make for meaningful discussion: if you're insulting the personal values of a large segment of the commenterati, it's probably going to make things too heated to ask everyone to remain level-headed and thoughtful.

[piker]

Yes, I think those questions probably underly my choice not to flag it. It just seems like a really slanted hit piece not worthy of HN. Didn’t flag.