Brendan Eich resigns as CEO from Mozilla

dmazin wrote: post #4

It is somewhat interesting whether these links keep getting killed because HN's response has been so wholly immature or for some other reason.

HN posts drop in rank for being too controversial, IIRC. (comments to points ratio gets too high)

Re: Brendan Eich resigns as CEO from Mozilla

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Post by waterlesscloud » Thu, Apr 03, 2014, 10:20 PM UTC

dmazin wrote: post #4

It is somewhat interesting whether these links keep getting killed because HN's response has been so wholly immature or for some other reason.

dang is specifically demoting and killing them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7527229

I'll wait for his post on the topic to form a final opinion on that, but my initial reaction is that it's wrong to bury a story of this magnitude in the tech industry.

Re: Brendan Eich resigns as CEO from Mozilla

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Post by MWil » Thu, Apr 03, 2014, 10:22 PM UTC

Quick question: Am I supposed to not be learning JavaScript because of him?

edit: apparently downvotes are being used instead of "no, that's silly" which was really the point

Re: Brendan Eich resigns as CEO from Mozilla

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Post by bronson » Thu, Apr 03, 2014, 10:24 PM UTC

waterlesscloud wrote: post #6

dmazin wrote: post #4

It is somewhat interesting whether these links keep getting killed because HN's response has been so wholly immature or for some other reason.

dang is specifically demoting and killing them. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7527229 I'll wait for his post on the topic to form a final opinion on that, but my initial reaction is that it's wrong to bury a story of this magnitude in the tech industry.

That sounds odd. If dang wants people to comment on the original story then he should leave it on the front page.

Kinda fun to see routing around censorship in action. :)

Re: Brendan Eich resigns as CEO from Mozilla

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Post by coldtea » Thu, Apr 03, 2014, 10:24 PM UTC

A win for bigotry everywhere.

If we don't like your personal opinions we wont vote or back a proposition against them -- we'll make you lose your job.

Re: Brendan Eich resigns as CEO from Mozilla

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Post by enupten » Thu, Apr 03, 2014, 10:26 PM UTC

This is sad.

I know about Brendan Eich's views, but Mozilla is an organization devoted to open source, none of whose concerns, as far as I can tell, have anything to be with sexual minorities. Were he still the CEO, he really couldn't have used his office to act on his views; so why all the castigating ?

He has a view, and sure a lot of us (including me) don't agree with him, but this culture of outrage is disgusting.