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This breaks the HN guideline against going full flamewar with nothing new to say.

The vector here is predictable and therefore uninteresting; most of us have been through it a zillion times and live in hope of being spared another. Therefore, please just don't.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13968549 and marked it off-topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I have to say, I appreciate the explanations in this thread. It's a nice show of transparency that I didn't see in the past with removed comments.

dang and sctb have been giving explanations for years now.

Strange, first time I noticed it! Maybe it's just because of the overwhelming amount of removed comments in this thread.

Isn't that just HN? ;)

Or is it not?

I believe you'll find that here in the comments section.

It's called Ask HN

I wasn't aware HN had a policy of discouraging women from answering questions that are asked in those threads.

Seems like a terrible thing that needs to change.

Doesn't need to be a policy to be an emergent property

Do you have anything to support that claim?