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Comment by ternnoburn | Hacker News Reader

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The more popular HN gets the more clickbait-y, attention-seeking and polarising titles and articles we're getting. I also think the more popular it is the less weight each down-vote/flag has, we will see more and more of such content being posted.

I and most of the people I know or work with really don't care whether something is/was made by a man or a woman. IMO that's totally unnecessary part of the title and its some kind of the usual "clickbait" you see in the news titles everywhere.

BTW: I was used to seeing "one-man" being used everywhere regardless whether the person in context was a man or a woman and only today I've discovered that both one-woman and one-person are valid by couple of UK/US dictionaries (even the older ones). Maybe that's one of the reason why some non-native speakers see this as an clickbait/attention seeking.

This isn't a clickbaity, attention-seeking or polarizing title, it's a completely generic title that happens to generate a lot of confected umbrage. The problem is the confected umbrage, not the title which is why the article is where it is (on the HN front page) and the umbrage is where it is (shoved out of the way in comment jail).

The thing is, I don't think it's click bait in this case. One person running a large service is notable, appropriate content for HN. And she's a woman, so one woman is per reasonable, factual, non editorializing headline given that "one woman" is a descriptor that's been in widespread use for some time.

People seem to be reacting to it like it's poison.

A certain fraction of this website's user base are, and always have been, basically Quark from DS9. Some really bizarre attitudes to women.

Hilarious! But even on DS9, there was room for a Quark.

One, sure. If there had been about 15 per episode, as there are on any threads which so much as imply the existence of FEEEEEMALES here, it would've gotten old.

(There were other Ferengi sometimes, but they were far less strident on this particular matter, in general.)

Btw, glad I am not the only one making a mental note of someone being a "ferengi". It is such a perfect description somehow. And our industry is full of them.

Well, the Ferengi were intended to be a parody of American capitalism. And the tech industry in many ways has turned itself into a parody of American capitalism. And the worst of Hacker News might as well be a parody of the tech industry.

Never mind Twitter these days.

I still follow Elon for his rocket stuff but his fanboys are relentless if you criticize him or his universe even slightly.

Or criticize aspects of capitalism even, like the one guy who said the purpose of a company is to make an impact, not primarily to make money. I think he was toast after they were done with him.

And Quark tried to learn, or adapt. He wasn't always successful, and he was cut out of a lot of situations where his behavior was considered unacceptable, but he did at least make some efforts.

it does make it story more interesting tho

I wish I could say it's surprising to me, but I've been here for a while.

Hackers are not the philosopher kings that a generation before hoped they would be.

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