It reveals a chronic and widespread lack of basic empathy.

A women gets assaulted on a date. She warns other women, on a website created for that purpose. Her drivers license, chat history, and passport are then revealed to the open web... and this forum celebrates it, with a giddy glee.

As if all the women on there were lying. As if women must not be permitted to warn each other about predatory men.

I held a faint hope that we were brigaded... Since when do we celebrate this? But clicking through to a few of the users past comments, that hope died.

I've never been quite so disgusted by this forum. This is vile; a stark sign of deep, deep rot in the HN community.