Is it just me or did Kelly Ellis disappear from the front page?
What should I make of this? A complicit culture of silence? I feel sick, uneasy, and confused.
It was reposted today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9165261. We would normally demote that as a duplicate, but we didn't. Users flagged it.
It's true that the SF Weekly article gave more background than the Google+ post, but it was linked in yesterday's thread and the information in it was discussed there.
I have a hard time deciding if this is a good policy or not.
On the one hand, it does tend to mean that there are fewer flamewars showing up on the front page, and getting people sucked into endless debates that go nowhere.
On the other hand, I feel like this works to sweep under the rug real problems that occur in this community. Rather than being able to expose and deal with such problems, once things become contentious they just disappear, leaving only the things that the community has more consensus on.
My personal stance is that even though this conversation is difficult, it's worth having. If we can't have it, who can?
jesus, get the story right before jumping to conclusions
Her pinned tweet gives a pretty good indication of what's going on.
If that happens, that would tragically mirror the tech world's distaste for open and honest discussion of the issues women face in tech.