Female Yahoo exec sued for sexual harassment
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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.
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!)