Originally Posted by
Jester Joe
Except that's also not the situation being described.
Also it's a bit weird to say qualified doesn't mean skill, but then try to defend your qualifications through your skills.
It's pretty simple to realize that the situation you're describing was already outlined by the other poster who already said that if there was an exceptional applicant they would be handled appropriately.
But in the situation where everyone is equally qualified (AKA- All meet the standards they need), that's where this policy will take hold.
Do you understand what qualified means?
If a qualification is "Needs 5 years experience" and both of you have that, congratz! That's both equally qualified in that regards. Hence why the other poster also mentioned if someone is far exceeding the rest in terms of skill.
Qualifying is just to pass the preliminary part.
The amount of times people think pointing out a mod title is some sort of weird "GOTCHA!" moment is crazy.
Instead, realize it invalidates what you say if you have to stoop to such statements because it pretty much admits you don't have anything else to actually prove your point with.
Especially since you say this after I already pointed out that it's silly to trust ActiBlizz to be handling women/non-binary applicants as equally as male ones.
You realize your own statement here highlights part of the issue that's been going on?
No, they've been hiring based on gender too, which is the issue. Claiming now "Oh, but we shouldn't factor in gender at all!" isn't fixing the issue because there's already such a ridiculous imbalanced caused by hiring based on gender to begin with. The only way to actually fix that would be to flip it to give those who haven't had the chance they deserve that chance.
Once we're actually closer to being even, THEN we can consider disregarding gender/race.