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If anyone is interested by this and wants to see if they guess "the question" - firstly, it's based on another story in the comments and not the main article,
by rawling 2y ago
If anyone is interested by this and wants to see if they guess "the question"
- firstly, it's based on another story in the comments and not the main article, so don't be surprised if you read the article and still have no idea
- secondly, don't ctrl-f for "the question" as you'll likely find it before the context. The story comment starts "Not surprisingly, I have a story?" so search for that instead.
- Tomte 2y agoHuh, I'm pretty sure I submitted the anchor to the relevant comment. Either HN stripped that or I fat-fingered it.
- genewitch 2y agoI remember on one of these someone made a great analogy about broken stairs to the back door of a house; and I thought that was it. > "[...] I think there were some people in the community who were intentionally protecting him, but there were more who were de facto protecting him by treating him like a missing stair. Like something you're so used to working around, you never stop to ask "what if we actually fixed this?" Eventually you take it for granted that working around this guy is just a fact of life, and if he hurts someone, that's the fault of whoever didn't apply the workarounds correctly." Awkward in the story you are talking about wasn't a missing stair, he was a walking red flags. Ugh.