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Comment by sosuke | Hacker News Reader

Are they drawing a conclusion that, because the majority of the visitors came through the Hacker News link, that Hacker News users are the source of the negative commentary? Seems like conjecture at best.

It is a dangerous thing to put yourself out there to the public. It takes a lot of courage to do it and often you get no response at all. I agree we should strive for a better community I'm merely thinking out loud. I've seen more and more outlets removing or minimizing comment sections because of what kind of content they fill up with.

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I vaguely remember the discussion on their first response.

The HN commentary was very negative, and very much not what I usually expect to see on HN. I was rather surprised at the tone.

That HN post was flagged and removed fairly quickly if I remember right - perhaps from the tone of dicussion.

The only reason I can think of that would not be exactly what I expect from HN is because it got flagged and hidden before too many of the usual kind of commentators showed up. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12115921)

You do know you can calculate the likelihood of a proposition from inductive evidence.

That is true you can get a probability of it being true from the information provided. But it still doesn't make it true, or true for the entire community. I guess I don't like the implication that I, as a commentator on Hacker News, am now grouped along with a person or persons I wouldn't want to be associated with.

There has to be some kind of phrasing for that. I put myself in a group, a member of that group does something atrocious I don't agree with, the world at large vilifies the group and I feel defensive because I put myself in that group.

There is a phrasing for it: It's called "prejudice". It sucks.

But if you don't want to be grouped with the haters and creeps then you had better stand up and say so. Call out the creeps and haters among us and tell them their shit isn't okay.

Stand up and say something. The problem isn't that this kid can't tell whether the creeps trying to get at her are from HN or not. The problem is the creeps.

Fight the right battle dude.

Call-out culture has not fixed anything yet, so we need to do it harder!

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."

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