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I see, downvotes incoming. Maybe I should explain:

> I think she has a tough time (she's transgender and doesn't have support from her peers)

This is from her website, I don't like armchair-psychoanalysis, either:

> I'm also transgender. But my transition so far has been really difficult (social isolation, lack of support.. etc), my voice is still really manly and I don't really pass at all (which probably weirds people out.. so I would rather say it upfront so I don't need to have anxiety about it, I have alot of anxiety issues). I also have not been able to change my name yet, legally its still "Thomas".

from http://sandboxescaper.blogspot.com

Seems I was the only one who clicked on her website. The first question I've had in my mind: "What does this person feel? It's weird to publish 0-days on Twitter with a little bit of rant"

For the downvoters: Would love to know why you downvoted me. Maybe I can clarify some aspects.

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I think you got downvoted for saying that full-disclosure is irresponsible.

Many people I've talked are in favor of full-disclosure and think that coordinated disclosure is long term dangerous as large companies with the resources to actually develop secure software are not sufficiently incentivized to do so under coordinated disclosure.

Edit: I've also noticed on HN that sometimes I will get downvoted really hard for no clear reason and then two weeks later HN will magically transform my downvotes into upvotes. Not really sure why that happens, maybe a wave of bot banning?

> Edit: I've also noticed on HN that sometimes I will get downvoted really hard for no clear reason and then two weeks later HN will magically transform my downvotes into upvotes. Not really sure why that happens, maybe a wave of bot banning?

Yup, I've seen this more recently but now the cycle is faster. My comments regularly get downvotes but then later in the evening they turned into upvotes.

Also back in Dec 2017, there was a huge wave of people shilling on reddit for ICOs and subreddits would regularly post what "HN users think" and "how to correct them".

You're being downvoted because it looks like your bringing in irrelevant information about her being transgender. Edit your comment putting the actual explanation first. The fact that shes transgender is only secondary, if that.

It absolutely is relevant. Imagine being born into a body of your opposite sex and having to deal with a society that isn't advanced enough to realize the binary genders arose out of industrial revolution for productivity efficiency to benefit the few. It still is this way but we don't have factory with prison like buildings to work in but we are all still feudal subjects.

I'd like to also point out that there is a very real cabal of HN nicks that is actively doing drive by downvotes on specific topics centring around LGBTQ+, immigration and ICOs.

I started seeing this back in 2014 and it correlated with the rise of r/the_donald. There are even amino groups that specifically coordinates such attacks. For instance, the Damore threads were really interesting. Within the first few hours of posting there were a lot of comments seemed off for HN userbase, defending trump and Damore's manifesto. Counter comments were flagged and downvoted.

We know reddit is under the influence of shills and HN is not exempt.

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