can someone explain what this is?
For example: https://twitter.com/ekp/status/991817194987114496
Is she asking them to fire people for being sexually unattractive?
..in your opinion. Why do you feel the need to silence that discussion?
I get that HN is a forum with its own rules and as such there is no automatic "right" to free speech, but is this really what flagging is for?
Flagging should be used for spam and other content which simply doesn't belong on a tech-related forum. Not for just removing stuff that you personally don't want to discuss.
Why don't you just ignore it and upvote the stuff you do want to participate in?
EDIT: this comment now appears as 'folded' when I refresh the page. Does this mean that it too has been flagged? That's pretty funny.
I don't think a service tailored at dating is ever going to be decent at what it's ostensibly doing. Instead what's going to work is someone doing a local community app right.
https://www.reddit.com/r/chideviance/comments/8eenaj/people_...
https://www.reddit.com/r/sciences/comments/8edxm3/controvers...
But anyway I agree that this topic is gasoline-soaked and unlikely to produce much of value.
The point is that for a set of people there's no-one coming along next. Hence they turn to dating sites to try to make connections.
I grew up in the 1980s and 90s. There were no dating apps, just classified 'want to meets' in the newspaper and they were expensive and fruitless. I didn't have a first date until I was 30, it took that long to find someone who was interested.
I wouldn't lecture anyone today about anything they can ethically & legally do to avoid that long sentence of loneliness. Even if they don't find a life partner, just getting one or two dates can be a huge boost to esteem.
2. Because one is a young digital native nerd with a lack of social skills.
Or both. I met 95% of my (sexual) partners online, including my boyfriend.
This relates directly to a tech company, and is about the intersection of tech & societal trends which many people here are interested in. It seems like perfectly valid HN content.
Do flagged posts get reviewed by moderators, or does HN allow a minority of users to flag whatever they want out of existence?
The mods usually take a look at the stream of post, specialy the flagged ones, but there are too many posts and in case you find something classified too badly you can email them hn@ycombinator.com , they usually reply soon, but it's manual process so use it wisely.
My guess here is that some users flagged it because the incel angle. It looks like a exaggeration, but I'm still not sure. So I'm not hitting any buttons here [no upvote, no flag, no email to the mods].
[My interpretation is that a log time ago OkCupid posted some silly story with some data and dubious analysis as a marketing strategy. Now they have been acquired and they must pose as a serious business, so they delete the old posts that are too polemic or politically incorrect, so ... I'm not sure that there is a connection or not.]
That post never existed. We have never been at war Eastasia. [Your] Ignorance is [our] strength.
> "here are just a few of the many, many guys we here in the office think are totally decent-looking, but that women have rated, in their occult way, as significantly less attractive than so-called “medium”"
are the 4 cofounders of OkCupid... ;)
In case you didn't know OkCupid and Facebook's data research teams are in strong competition regarding which team is most borderline unethical, as evidenced for example here: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/29/okcupid-e....
Just get off of these awful sites and programs. They profit off the worst traits of humanity and it seems their blog as well. There is nothing scientific or useful that can come from their data or supposed insights. The first step in the right direction was to delete the post.
