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Comment by tptacek | Hacker News Reader

This post is so militantly, toxically out-of-place on HN I have to wonder whether it's a deliberate trap set by the moderators. If so: be more subtle next time, please.

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It's ranking fairly highly on r/truereddit, and I see a lot of crossover between TR and HN, so I'm willing to believe that somebody cross-posted it thinking it would be of interest. That's not to say it isn't out of place, but it also doesn't mean it's a honeypot.

I'd like the story better if it had been a honeypot, so I didn't mean to cast aspersions on the poster. Sorry if I made it sound otherwise. Since you agree that it's out of place, I hope you flagged it too.

I don't think it is. When I started reading it, I was thinking, oh, man, this is just someone else who can't take a joke, then I started thinking what if I was a woman whose views weren't being taken seriously simply because I was a woman?

How awful would that be.

But, then again, this happens so often in the IT world.

Since you're new here, I'll take the opportunity to ask you to check out the site guidelines (linked at the bottom of the page).

From those same guidelines: "If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did." Being new here means (in my case) that I re-read the guidelines each time I think they might impinge on a decision to post, because I'm aware that I haven't yet absorbed them into my general thinking patterns.

Also, to which guideline were you directing gregbair's attention? I fail to grok your meaning.

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