HN penalizes stories with more comments than votes ("flame war detector"). Between that and the inevitable flagging, stories about sexism and/or workplace harassment tend to die quickly on HN.
It appears to have been renamed to "Why didn't you back me up?"
Although I don't know Kelly Ellis, I believe this is in reference to this: https://plus.google.com/+KellyEllis/posts/L4wawXpNt25 -- I am not actually trying to express an opinion on this, but that's the context from yesterday.
I don't think "complicit culture of silence" is quite right as it implies more direct intent. It's more along the lines of "inability to have a difficult conversation".
My personal stance is that even though this conversation is difficult, it's worth having. If we can't have it, who can?
I expected to see ongoing discussion about it today, instead this is the only post I'm seeing.
are you talking about https://twitter.com/justkelly_ok ?
> A complicit culture of silence? I feel sick, uneasy, and confused.
jesus, get the story right before jumping to conclusions
Who is Kelly Ellis?
This will probably dissappear from the front page too. HN is biased strongly against meta posts.
If that happens, that would tragically mirror the tech world's distaste for open and honest discussion of the issues women face in tech.
Probably got flagged to oblivion since:
- She shamed her employer on social media with loose allegations
- Judging by her Twitter history, she's a professional feminist troll
Women do face issues in tech and every other industry, but incidents like Adria Richards or this just hurt womens' causes, and makes them riskier hires...
The story was on the front page for many hours yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9163309.
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.