Comment by billyraejohnson

I am sorry but this does not sound very convincing. You are blocking the visibility of a highly important topic.The thread was not just down-weighted, but also taken away from the topic listings altogether. It happened within a very short time-frame. There is not a ton of stories on HN about how an 8B net worth and highly influential person is inciting a mass layoff of 20℅ of Google staff, just so this person's hedge fund profit would be raised by 1℅. This coming from an already super high EBITA of 39℅ is a prime example of greed of a few is "disrupting" the lives of many. If you are already manipulating the feed, at least dont insult our intelligence with run-of-the-mill explanations. For the record, I was never a Google employee, just irritated with the letter in question.