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Hector Martin

Reply to suggestion to ban blatant anti-LGBT bigotry: "So your solution is to ban everyone who disagrees with you?"
8 Jun 2023 at 8:26 | Open on social.treehouse.systems
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Hector Martin

Let's not talk about our community becoming a cesspool. In fact, let's suppress any such discussion.

That is clearly a sign of a healthy community, right?
8 Jun 2023 at 8:26 | Open on social.treehouse.systems
Hector Martin

Another comment advocating self-reflection fading into oblivion.

But you know what *did* get immediately flagged and removed from the front page? Alyssa's blogpost about how trans people, including trans developers of software every Linux user uses every day, are being attacked in the US right now.

Also, since the Rust threads were mentioned: On one of those, HN commenters managed to absolutely gratuitously bring up an Asahi developer for absolutely no reason, followed by a double digit comment pile-up of harassment.

Yeah.

Another comment advocating self-reflection fading into oblivion.

But you know what *did* get immediately flagged and removed from the front page? Alyssa's blogpost about how trans people, including trans developers of software every Linux user uses every day, are being attacked in the US right now.

Also, since the Rust threads were mentioned: On one of those, HN commenters managed to absolutely gratuitously bring up an Asahi developer for absolutely no reason, followed by a double digit comment pile-up...
8 Jun 2023 at 8:28 | Open on social.treehouse.systems
Hector Martin

Sidenote, I find it hilarious how many HN commenters I managed to baffle and confuse with a, <a> tag with a :visited selector on it. That's, like, the most basic '90s HTML.
8 Jun 2023 at 8:34 | Open on social.treehouse.systems
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