This Slack discussion by the Hacker Noon team: Limarc Ambalina, Arthur Tkachenko, Rianke Krugel, Storm Farrell, and Linh Smooke occurred in slogging's official #general channel, and has been edited for readability.
These opinions belong to each individual alone. This was an interesting question that I've been wondering about for awhile. None of our answers were meant to offend anyone, and I'm sure others may disagree with some of the opinions expressed below.