[stablechaos]

Seeing a link like this at the top of HackerNews is deeply disappointing. Regardless of the accusation or the status of a person, everyone deserves due diligence when it comes to attacks on people's character and reputation.

A brief 200-word blurb is gossip, even if she provides links. The fact that she couldn't be bothered to write any more is indicative of how little she cares about whether her criticism is legitimate or not, whether there's important context left out, or whether the statements are supportable by concrete evidence and not just rumor.

We need to take stuff like this more seriously, and not just take the words of some random gossip writer at face value.

[truetraveller]

It is disappointing. More so, the general attitude of HN. This witch-hunt culture / cancel-culture has got to stop. It's far worse in my eyes than any so-called "abuse". This is abuse.