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Re:My experience with sexual harassment in the Scala community by kelnos on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @06:31PM (#26962740)
I'm seriously curious to know what kind of proof you would accept that would make you believe these accusations.

I hear your sort of response a lot, but it's mostly from people who won't change their mind no matter what (and will continue to move the goalposts as more evidence comes to light), or set the bar so high that it's basically impossible to provide the proof they want.

Re:My experience with sexual harassment in the Scala community by oh_sigh on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @07:26PM (#26963366)
Some evidence that would help would be conversations which were allegedly had, where one party clearly says "Don't contact me any more at all", and then later attempts of the other party to contact them.

This isn't proof, it is evidence, but I think that would help a bit. Even if party A and party B disagree about something that happened, if party A says stop contacting me, and party B continues to do so, that is wrong enough in itself.

Re:My experience with sexual harassment in the Scala community by adrienne on Thursday April 29, 2021 @10:16AM (#26981455)
That evidence exists, in Yifan's case; i have personally seen receipts. Unfortunately i'm still banned on HN so probably nobody will see this.
Re:My experience with sexual harassment in the Scala community by DyslexicAtheist on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @06:52PM (#26962990)
not OP and I believe the accusations. but if she would have wanted a) real justice and b) create even more hell for the accused while c) staying out of the firing line of misogynists on social media, and d) get closure sooner because people won't be after her for the next years to remind her, then she should have filed a police report.

Given his situation (see my other comment[1] on why) she could have made his situation much (I repeat MUCH MUCH) worse than what she did. I wouldn't want to know the amount of abuse she now gets because of it and in the months (if not years to come).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26962280

Re:My experience with sexual harassment in the Scala community by tylerhou on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @07:19PM (#26963280)
Have you ever filed a police report regarding rape/sexual assault? It can be incredibly dehumanizing, especially when it is nearly impossible to prove that someone date-raped you when there are no witnesses.
Re:My experience with sexual harassment in the Scala community by DyslexicAtheist on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @07:34PM (#26963461)
> Have you ever filed a police report regarding rape/sexual assault?

no, have you?

I do know people in the system so I'm quite familiar with how they work (and what is lore from the US and Hollywood that people assume vs how it works). Germany isn't some Banana Republic, so she actually gets a professional (even she shows up without a lawyer) walking her through these things.

> It can be incredibly dehumanizing

so you do have personal experience with it how this works in Germany? Do tell me, is it more dehumanizing than going on social media and knowing that you will be hunted by misogynists for the next couple of years so you won't ever get closure and need to hope that the mood of the mob doesn't go against you one day (because you have no legal ground to stand on)? I hardly think so.