I’m an Ex-Google Woman Tech Leader and I’m Sick of Our Approach to Diversity

A truly revolutionary idea in this era of authoritarian social justice causes.

Generic ideological tangents never lead anywhere interesting and pretty much guarantee contentless flamewars, so please don't take HN threads in such directions.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15010185 and marked it off-topic.

Could you explain why this post is disapearing from the frontpage as fast as it is? Even though it has the most votes in very little time. (see my other comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15011458)

Users are flagging it heavily, as they have been flagging most opinion pieces that have appeared during this tidal wave.

People who feel strongly one way or the other typically want to see the articles they agree with stay on the front page and the ones they disagree with get flagged. But from a systemic point of view, it isn't in HN's interest to have the front page dominated by repetitive arguments (and certainly not repetitive flamewars) about the same thing. That's not what the site is for and not why the majority of HN users come here.

I think maybe flagging needs to be reworked into: - spam - nsfw content - breaks the rules

So people can flag "bad" stuff and don't remove topics based on their political/social views instead? Currently the system seems to be broken if this happens. This way you could easly penalize the users who try to manipulate by flagging "valid" topics.