Comment by ska

> By that logic, it would be sensible to lament that, say, a particular daycare is staffed entirely by women, or that

This is a non-sequitur; neither of those are communities in the sense under discussion.

I'll agree that there are some cases where a lack of diversity doesn't indicate any weakness in the community, but that is not the general case.

I don't know why you are bringing "intervention" into the discussion as I did not, nor did the OP. And who said anything about top-down governance? I noted only that the case for more diversity in HN is quite defensible, and it obviously is. NB I didn't claim it was correct, just defensible which is a pretty low bar.

So beyond "bizarre" being an overreach (ironically, verging on bizarre even before the ex post facto introduction of intervention, etc.), this is exactly the case-by-case you are asking for.