[toss1]

Obviously, the comments on Blind are not direct harassment, as you are not expected to read them, or can obviously choose not to read them.

The point is that it provides: hard data about the whispering campaign going on behind your back, the conversations from which you are excluded.

that the harassment does actually exist, and is not a mere allegation by you being paranoid.

that other people can go verify the hostile attitudes and expressions for themselves.

provides real, externally verifiable evidence of problems at facebook, not coming merely from the famous "disgruntled ex-employee"

Stop trying to minimize serious issues (and if you do want to minimize them, at least make sound points that are better than trivial sophistry, a half step up from complaining about typos).

[CydeWeys]

And it provides a mechanism for people to spread lies about you and collaborate against you. You can't simply turn a blind eye to this stuff; it does affect you, whether you read it or not.

[xiphias2]

Lies are a bad thing, but in this case if you read what people wrote she probably went too far and hurt people who had no other way to defend themselves, but to organize againt her. Also mass lies are hard to do with Blind, as you can't just register 100 users, there are real people working at big companirs behind each user, that's why I like it so much.

[fzeroracer]

This is probably one of the more absurd takes I've read, since it's essentially saying that the harassers are somehow the real victims in this situation.

[xiphias2]

Why can't there be multiple victims? People don't just start attacking a person for fun. There's always a reason. You may not agree with me, but in my experience diversity initiatives are nowdays extremely aggressive.

[fzeroracer]

You're making an excuse for a woman suffering harassment, enough so that she clearly felt unwelcome at the company while acting like it's her fault for 'going too far' somehow, a claim which is entirely unsubstantiated.

Your logic is absolutely absurd. Acting like people 'don't just start attacking someone for fun' ignores the fact that people can and do face racism, sexism, transphobia and so forth. Especially when she clearly encountered transphobic comments, some of which I even saw spread here on HN.

[CydeWeys]

It also ignores the fact that bullying exists, i.e. people indeed literally do "just start attacking someone for fun", and it doesn't stop with childhood. Anyone who's ever visited the comments section of any website knows this.

[toss1]

Exactly! Another one I missed

[xiphias2]

The issues of the people who are using blind to voice their opinions are at least as serious as the problems the woman who quit has. I understand that she felt harassed, but the point was not to hurt her, but to organize against her behaviour that others felt was too much. Also the article proved that Blind was needed: Facebook management was looking for the people and they could have got into trouble.