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DanBC on Jan 10, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Female Founders

One reason sexism stories get flagged off is because they attract hateful sexist idiots who spew vile nonsense.

They are unrepentent and relentless. Flagging the threads is the only way to defend https://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments from horrible halfwits.

Crito on Jan 10, 2014 [–]

They also tend to have a poor comment:upvote ratio, which apparently is used to detect poor quality discussions and penalize them.

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