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All: there's room on HN for good-faith debate, but not for ideological flamebait (regardless of which flavor), so can you please not post that? It's tedious, off topic, and boy does it suck the oxygen out of a thread.

Here's a test: ask yourself how much intellectual curiosity there is in your comment or your motivation for posting. If you don't find much, please hold off until you do. Intellectual curiosity is the reason this site exists [1], and it's a fragile factor nowadays amid the rage and hysteria online. Keep HN curious.

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

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hey dang, ask yourself how much intellectual curiosity is there in this promo post?! quite disingenuous on your side.

It's true that moderation comments are out-of-band for the site. But they're necessary, because the system can't right itself without them. If it helps at all, they're even more tedious to write than they are to read.

Edit: mlevental points out that you were referring to the article, not my comment. I think there's plenty of intellectual curiosity in what Jessica wrote, especially in the blog post explaining why she did it. In fact, I'd say it's obvious. That commenters don't always respond to curiosity with curiosity of their own is a separate issue.

Certainly it's also a promotional post in the sense of wanting to call attention to the program, but that sort of mix is common on HN, and it's where it is on the front page because users upvoted it.

the person you're responding to here is trying to point out that the article is disingenuous and so only can generate the same. I don't agree/disagree. just clarifying.

What about the article is disingenuous? It doesn't even seem to be making any arguments.

Seriously. It's 100% factual. "I'm ponying up money for so-and-so program. Here are the qualifications and stipulations."

It's only disingenuous if she's lying about these things and actually not doing this, which seems like an absurd accusation.

The downvoted user clearly claims dang is disingenuous, not the article...

Now that you mention it, I see that I misread the comment. Thanks!

Dang,

The linked webpage does not spark my curiosity, it inflames me because I'm against any type of discrimination. Discrimination against men is sex based discrimination.

The webpage naturally attracts political and ideological flame bait and these kind of links should have no place on HN.

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