Re:Startup accused of scamming employees scrubs its online p...
by coleifer on Thursday September 08, 2016 @04:58PM
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Well said, thanks for taking the time to put yourself in my shoes, and to also share with me how my comment hurts the community. I'll try harder to keep things on the up-and-up.
It's easy to understand why you'd be angry about someone saying the things you heard there, and I don't doubt that the prejudice you're reacting to exists in places, but the danger with online comments—which have such tiny bandwidth—is that we fill in the gaps with things that weren't there. I suspect that happened here. Even if it didn't, though, we all have to resist the urge to lash out.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12395638 and marked it off-topic.