I'm frankly more taken aback by both how
1. Comments regarding how pervasive bad operators are throughout our govt. are flagged and downvoted to the bottom of the thread, even when they're the most relevant to HN with respect to governmental participants on tech/startup boards.
2. That despite such a high score and comment volume, for what I'd say is a rather important topic, this thread is already flagged to page 3 and below.
The entire handling of this thread, for the weight I'd give the topic, has saddened me.
I'll try and make an HN-contributive point with regards to the OP out of this meta-complaint in observing that while there's a lot of finger pointing and blame in this thread, I don't see enough asking "Ok, so _now what_." How do we push back against the normalization of torture? As observed elsewhere, govt. employees who had a hand in some of this now hold positions within our companies. Is it feasible/desirable to take a social role in making them unwelcome there? This is certainly the path I'll be trying, for as little influence as I have in my business dealings.
1. Comments regarding how pervasive bad operators are throughout our govt. are flagged and downvoted to the bottom of the thread, even when they're the most relevant to HN with respect to governmental participants on tech/startup boards.
2. That despite such a high score and comment volume, for what I'd say is a rather important topic, this thread is already flagged to page 3 and below.
The entire handling of this thread, for the weight I'd give the topic, has saddened me.
I'll try and make an HN-contributive point with regards to the OP out of this meta-complaint in observing that while there's a lot of finger pointing and blame in this thread, I don't see enough asking "Ok, so _now what_." How do we push back against the normalization of torture? As observed elsewhere, govt. employees who had a hand in some of this now hold positions within our companies. Is it feasible/desirable to take a social role in making them unwelcome there? This is certainly the path I'll be trying, for as little influence as I have in my business dealings.