Please don't flag the article if you simply disagree.
The key to changing minds is understanding the other side. Not shutting them out of the conversation.
The key to changing minds is understanding the other side. Not shutting them out of the conversation.
Simply trying to deny the debate is not how you work things out. If anything that will just annoy the group more so.
It's not a debate to be won. Some people just keep insisting it is with this cloying, sweaty desperation. It's embarrassing, and it's awful that these Silicon Valley ghouls have so much power that we have to consider them at all.
I read the article, it didn't have any real science and made a bunch of insane, half-baked assumptions. The guy is a dumbass and deserved to be fired.
Sounds like a scary place to be, and I'm genuinely sorry you find yourself there.
(I believe we already told you this elsewhere, but) you've been posting such ideological flamebait to HN that your comments amount to trolling whether you mean them to or not. This isn't a question of how right or wrong you are—plenty of your fellow community members are arguing the same positions as you without violating the spirit of this site. If you'd like to participate in thoughtful discussion, you're welcome to keep commenting here. Kindly fix this?
Admittedly these trainwreck threads have been pretty thin on thoughtful discussion, but even so, several of your posts stand out as poisonous.
According to the HN guidelines, flagging is for spam or off-topic submissions. This is neither.
I have also seen articles about legal action being taken which was news to me, also being flagged down.
"I am bored of this" doesn't seem like what the flagging mechanism is for, actually. Or would I be justified in flagging any story about Go because it happens to not be relevant to me and I think there's enough discussion of it already? Seems wrong.