I don't think my remarks are in any way off topic.
They illustrate the problem space with a specific example.
I choose to use myself as the example because then I'm not doxxing other people, in essence. I can say as much or as little as I feel comfortable saying about myself.
You're ability to participate here is facilitated by the nearly 11 years I have spent here. I did a lot of laying of the groundwork to make it possible for women to open their mouths here more readily and participation by women is up.
Maybe use that ability that I helped make possible to do something other than piss all over me.
(Edit: For that matter, I have reason to believe my participation here also has made it easier for the LGBTQ crowd to participate more openly in part because I am not straight, though I don't comment very often on that fact.)
> You're ability to participate here is facilitated by the nearly 11 years I have spent here. I did a lot of laying of the groundwork to make it possible for women to open their mouths here more readily and participation by women is up.
This is an anonymous internet forum comprised of tech stories and random nonsense. I can post here because I have an internet connection. Get over yourself.
> Maybe use that ability that I helped make possible to do something other than piss all over me.
You are not being attacked just because someone sheds some light on why you aren't getting the results you want out of posting on an internet forum and I can post here because I was able to think of a user name and password.
Try an experiment where you post anonymously and see if it actually changes the way people respond. Hacker news is extremely charitable, which makes it a bizarre place to claim to be victimized while posting walls of text with loose connections to the story link.
Ironically you have posted around 20 times in a few hours, which isn't what I would call being silenced.