Female Yahoo exec sued for sexual harassment(mercurynews.com)
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Female Yahoo exec sued for sexual harassment
http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_26133355/female-yahoo-exec-sued-sexual-harassment
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I totally agree, so much so that when this story hit the front page I flagged it; what could any of us usefully have to say about it?
Two hours later, lo and behold, we have this gem of an HN discussion.
Truly horrible threads (as this story is starting to germinate) get nuked by the moderators. But my sense is, the (overworked, underappreciated) mods find it much more gratifying when the site's "immune system" kicks in and flags them off the site before they have to. Why not help this story meet an appropriately speedy demise?
(Boom! The system works!)
Two hours later, lo and behold, we have this gem of an HN discussion.
Truly horrible threads (as this story is starting to germinate) get nuked by the moderators. But my sense is, the (overworked, underappreciated) mods find it much more gratifying when the site's "immune system" kicks in and flags them off the site before they have to. Why not help this story meet an appropriately speedy demise?
(Boom! The system works!)
And there is rarely a novel aspect to these harassment cases that is worthy of repeated discussion here. That's certainly not to say these cases aren't newsworthy, but the discourse typically generated here regarding this topic devolves into speculation, generalizations, and crude remarks.
Factual information tends to get up-voted to the top... but until then, the people demand a lynching, err.. sacrifice!
Anybody else feel like the article keeps reminding us that she is a female? Feels a bit like it's presented as an unusual detail, when in reality sexual harassment comes from both males and females.
This thread was killed by user flags.
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There are circumstances under which reading a post and then the follow-on comments of lots of informed people is enlightening, and when that happens that's great. But in a case like this, really, none of us has any idea. I find myself basically gawking, and thinking that one or the other of the two parties here is unfairly being gawked at (it sounds like).
True, such cases are news, and for instance may have an impact on things that happen at Yahoo! or perhaps even have wider impacts. True. But still I hope we stay away from gawks, to the extent possible.