"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Turning (or trying to turn) a Show HN into a flamewar is obviously against the Show HN rules also:
Other commenters in this thread have posted things that are closer to what you describe. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25160667, for example, is a completely different kind of comment.
Just to clarify - By using us all companies will be doing is post ads to reach a different kind of audience they otherwise won't.
Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say.
The entire premise of the site is to have a list of candidates based solely on gender and national origin. Discrimination is core to the product, so I asked a core, targeted question about it.
Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work.
I never dismissed it, merely sought to further understand.
Turning (or trying to turn) a Show HN into a flamewar is obviously against the Show HN rules also
I never introduced the topic or product, merely tried to understand its justification. The show hn rules also state "When something isn't good, you needn't pretend that it is, but don't be gratuitously negative."
This is not a hard call. The comment was obvious flamebait. Every remotely similar thread gets these generic, indignant objections, and they lead to the same flamewar over and over again. That's not what HN is for.
> I never dismissed it, merely sought to further understand.
That does not seem to me a plausible interpretation of your comment. If it really was your intent, you needed to make that much clearer. When it comes to inflammatory topics on the internet, the burden is on the commenter to disambiguate intent: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so.... If a comment looks like a drive-by one-liner and quacks like a drive-by one-liner, then it's trolling, whether you meant it to or not. We have to judge these things by their effects: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor....
Disagree fully that this is automatically pejorative. If it's false (the first test of whether something can be considered pejorative) then explain why.
If you can't, then the accusation falls at the first hurdle. If you can, then why bother with all the BUT THE RULES! nonsense when you could just say why the statement is false?