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The problem with partner on HN is it makes me think co-founder or the like. :-\
SO (Significant Other) is solid gender neutral verbiage IMHO
It's amazing how hard this is.
I understand what others are saying about a possible "gimmick" by using the "my girlfriend" line to get people to click on it. Although that may be true, and they could be pulling a fast one, I think we are all being too cynical. Hacker News is supposed to be a community of like minded people sharing their interests with others who enjoy the same thing. I think it is really cute that she did this for her boyfriend. S…
I don't care how cute it is. If you want cuteness, go to /r/aww, not HN. I want meaningful, thought-provoking content.
>I don't see how there is anything wrong with that, and if it is on the front page, then others must agree as well.
Using your logic, we can conclude that there is nothing wrong with majority of content on Reddit. After all, people upvoted it, so there is nothing wrong with it! So far, the readers on HN have been more thoughtful, and I would hate for the quality of this website to go down.
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I think based on sexual preference you probably have different ideas of what "sex appeal" means and what your reaction to X word is. That being said, titles are there to tell you what something is about, and to get you interested. This does both, and part of this example is surely sex appeal. You can debate whether it was intended, but that's how genders work. Being blunt, how many readers with a sexual preference to…
>readers with a sexual preference towards females Women are also conditioned to judge the competency of other women based on their appearance. This isn't relevant to the case at hand however. Personally I welcome a lot, lot more posts with women somehow in them because at the sheer mention of women in HN the thread jumps to the topic of gender and I don't see that changing until there are just a lot more women postin…
A fair point for sure, I hadn't considered that.
I understand what others are saying about a possible "gimmick" by using the "my girlfriend" line to get people to click on it. Although that may be true, and they could be pulling a fast one, I think we are all being too cynical. Hacker News is supposed to be a community of like minded people sharing their interests with others who enjoy the same thing. I think it is really cute that she did this for her boyfriend. S…
>I think it is really cute that she did this for her boyfriend. She didn't have to do this, but she either likes him so much, or likes the product so much, that she wanted to help him make it successful. I don't care how cute it is. If you want cuteness, go to /r/aww, not HN. I want meaningful, thought-provoking content. >I don't see how there is anything wrong with that, and if it is on the front page, then others m…
I do agree. I come to hacker news just for the reason you listed above;
"meaningful, thought-provoking content."
But HN is also a community. Every now and then for someone to share something like this, I think that's perfectly fine. I do agree if people do take advantage of this, it would significantly reduce the valuable content that I love about HN. We have to trust that his girlfriend really did post this, and didn't pull a fast one on us.
Everything in moderation.