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From what I see, it was an investigation into gender-based discrimination/harassment claims, and the result of the investigation was that, well, no evidence of
by joshma 12y ago
From what I see, it was an investigation into gender-based discrimination/harassment claims, and the result of the investigation was that, well, no evidence of gender-based discrimination was found. Does that not provide very useful information to the reader? It would be irresponsible for the report to claim that no harassment of any form exists at GitHub, and irresponsible of us to accuse (or "wonder", which is just a wiggly way of accusing) the worst given its omission.
> This doesn't mean there isn't any evidence--it just means that their internal investigation didn't find any.
Of course the results of the investigation tells us nothing about things outside the investigation. Is that not assumed? How many 3rd parties does it take before this is not true?
Apologies if I sound irate, it's just disappointing that accusations that seem to have little basis (huge disclaimer, purely based on news coverage and this published report) can cause a founder to leave his company.
- jfc 12y agoI didn't take offense to your comment. My primary point was that we can't assume things that the memo doesn't say. From your comment: > "From what I see, it was an investigation into gender-based discrimination/harassment claims" I think you are making some assumptions, and my guess is that whoever wrote the GitHub statement wanted you to come to that exact conclusion. This is why they kept repeating the phrase "gender-based"--they want the reader to focus on the gender claims and then GitHub can try to render those claims invalid with their investigation results. In fact, the precise scope of the investigation was not provided in the statement--we don't know what they investigated. There are many possibilities, including the one you suggested. Another is that they might have looked into a range of issues, found a few problems, and then decided to focus their public statements on the gender-based claims because they knew they could win those. Mostly, I'm saying that this GitHub post doesn't tell us much (not saying it should, just saying it doesn't).