Suspect Nima quizzed Bob Lee on inappropriate behavior with his sister

Re:Suspect Nima quizzed Bob Lee on inappropriate behavior wi... by dang on Friday April 14, 2023 @06:50PM (#35575872)

This was discussed thoroughly yesterday. I suggest we don't rehash the same thing. It's a guaranteed flamewar and now also just a repetition.

Arrest made in SF killing of Bob Lee – alleged killer also worked in tech - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35555525 - April 2023 (1161 comments)

Edit: When the original thread was happening after Bob Lee was killed (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35448899), I considered pinning a comment to the top of the thread reminding commenters that none of us had any knowledge of what had happened and asking them not to have a flamewar between pre-existing narratives. I decided not to because I didn't want to overly interfere, but I regret that now.

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Re:Suspect Nima quizzed Bob Lee on inappropriate behavior wi... by BenSahar on Friday April 14, 2023 @07:59PM (#35576328)

It's a bit funny how you refused to moderate when the dominant narrative aligned with the one Garry Tan has been trying to push.

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Re:Suspect Nima quizzed Bob Lee on inappropriate behavior wi... by dang on Friday April 14, 2023 @08:10PM (#35576388)

I spent the entire day moderating those threads—to the detriment of the rest of HN actually. That happens sometimes when one story takes all the moderation oxygen. See the links below. (Edit: I'm going to move them to a child comment and collapse it so as not to overload this thread with 40 links.)

The reason I didn't post the comment I mentioned in the GP was not lack of moderation, but the opposite: I was moderating so much that I didn't want to be accused of over-intervening.

If anyone cares - in the end the decisions I made were (1) to factor out the comments that were actually about Bob Lee into their own thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35457341), and (2) to let the other flamewar just burn itself out since there wasn't anything we could to do stop it. The first decision was a good one—that thread spent many hours at the top of the front page. The second decision was also a good one—I have a pretty fine-tuned sense of what we can and can't control. But I do regret not posting that other reminder. I very much wanted to, but overruled myself—and now I wish I had left a record of the mods upholding the value of not rushing to judgement.

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Re:Suspect Nima quizzed Bob Lee on inappropriate behavior wi... by dang on Friday April 14, 2023 @08:39PM (#35576560)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35486328

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35476876

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35476872

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35472256

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35472227

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35472223

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35472212

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35472140

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35464652

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35464630