If you read it...the boys invited her to "go get food" and took her to an backyard storage shed.
And it appears that the mom who hosted the party denied there was drinking, lied to police (there's video), took the victim's clothing AND WASHED IT, spread lies about "she recanted."
But don't worry; your perfect story will appear soon.
Try this one.
I'm not looking for a perfect story on this subject. I keep my eye out for high quality writing on any and all subjects to post to Hacker News. I don't shy away from difficult subjects, nor do I have an agenda to promote certain topics on the forum. It's something of a tightrope I have to walk in that regard.
The forum is full of people with PhDs and self made millionaires and the like. I realize most people on Cyburbia have Master's degrees, but the standards for discussion and civility on HN are especially high.
You have to have a membership there to apply to Y Combinator's incubator program. Their program has played a role in the development of many big name businesses, such as AirBnB, Reddit and DropBox.
So behaving well there and impressing people with your smarts can help open the door to literally millions of dollars for some people. That fact has a strong influence on the culture. It is a high stakes environment. They place a very, very high value on civility. Articles about difficult subjects that aren't handled adequately well rapidly get flagged to death.
When they screwed up their pilot "online startup school" recently and sent acceptance letters to the rejects and rejection letters to the people accepted, they graciously decided to accept all 15k applicants and try to find some means to ramp up rapidly to deal with the load. I think they had intended to accept 3000, so their load quintupled with that decision.
In other words, this is an environment with a low tolerance for excuses. I don't make excuses. I meet the standard. That's how I fit in.
I love Cyburbia and I'm thrilled to be back here. I've probably posted several articles from Cyburbia to Hacker News because the quality of people and ideas and so forth here is pretty high. So I was actually excited to see this piece and hopeful that it would be a rare gem.
Although it has some good qualities, the piece serves too much as a means for the author to process her own firsthand trauma, having been at the school in question where this debacle occurred. The writing is good, but not what it needs to be for me personally to post it to HN.
As the highest ranked woman there, I'm in a delicate position. There can be a lot of eyes on what I do -- the forum gets 5 million visitors a year -- and people can react very strongly to things I do simply because of my position there. That's just reality and I have to take that into account when deciding what to post.
I don't plan to click the link you've given me.
I missed the edit window, but I will add that Hacker News is, in some sense, the old boy network of our age.
Historically, HN was as much as 98 percent male membership. The exclusion of women on HN is excluding them from the halls of power. My participation there and prominent position is helping open doors for other women.
I have my eye on the big picture. I'm not apologizing to anyone for that.
