[grovulent]

Woah - I've read quite a lot about that lawsuit, but haven't seen this accusation before:

"When Ellen Pao arrived at Reddit, her resume consisted of no accomplishments. She was filing a frivolous lawsuit against her former employer, private equity firm Kleiner Perkins, for sexual harassment. The only reason she had the job at all was because Reddit investor and rival firm Andreessen Horowitz wanted to lend credence to that lawsuit. In the highly competitive world of private equity dealings, Andreessen Horowitz viewed a cowed, demoralized Kleiner as a less capable bidder for funding deals. They cared little about how she managed Reddit and Imgur. They just wanted her to look like executive material in front of a jury."

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Is there any evidence at all for this claim? It sounds potentially libelous to me.

edit: actually I wish I could take back my vote up on this article. There is probably some truth to the contrast OP is making here - but there are some pretty wild, unsubstantiated claims - and the tone overall just goes too far (wanting feminist marxists to all die)... I'm not a fan of them either personally. But we need to tone down the rhetoric...

[dalke]

This account shares the same nick and full name for someone that Wikipedia describes as "American black hat[3] hacker, white nationalist, and Internet troll", and says "The New York Times reported that Auernheimer claimed responsibility for posting a false account of programming author and game developer Kathy Sierra's career in 2007[62] including charges that she was a former sex worker, along with her actual address and Social Security number.[11] This led to her receiving death threats and threats of sexual violence[63] and to her online absence from 2007 to 2013."

As per an earlier HN threads, I prefer to use the term "harasser" instead of "troll".