Personally I downvoted this post for a few reasons:
insufficient details to evaluate the claims
claims are not stated clearly
I found it hard to follow because it contained various abbreviations with no explanation of them
assumes reader has context that is not presented in the post
To me this reads more like publicly posting content that was written only with an audience of folks working at CEA or similar orgs in mind. So I downvoted because it doesn’t seem worth a lot of people reading it since it’s unclear what value there is there for them. This isn’t to say the intended message isn’t worthwhile, only that the presentation in this particular post is insufficient.
I’d very much like to read a post providing evidence that there were many instances of sexual assault within the community if that’s the case, especially if it’s above the baseline of the surrounding context (whether that be people of similar backgrounds, living in similar places, etc.). And if CEA has engaged in misconduct I’d like to know about that, too. But I can’t make any updates based on this post because it doesn’t provide enough evidence to do so.
I wouldn’t put myself at risk of defamation by writing a post detailing SA in EA, nor do I want to speak for CH’s take on this, which is why the evidence feels so scant. With SA, it’ll always be hard to prove it beyond a reasonable doubt, so even if I gave you some evidence, you could refute it.
Also, this probably the post speaks more strongly to people who were following the post on the Time article (esp my posts) but doesn’t make a lot of sense if you just dropped in now.
Personally I downvoted this post for a few reasons:
insufficient details to evaluate the claims
claims are not stated clearly
I found it hard to follow because it contained various abbreviations with no explanation of them
assumes reader has context that is not presented in the post
To me this reads more like publicly posting content that was written only with an audience of folks working at CEA or similar orgs in mind. So I downvoted because it doesn’t seem worth a lot of people reading it since it’s unclear what value there is there for them. This isn’t to say the intended message isn’t worthwhile, only that the presentation in this particular post is insufficient.
I’d very much like to read a post providing evidence that there were many instances of sexual assault within the community if that’s the case, especially if it’s above the baseline of the surrounding context (whether that be people of similar backgrounds, living in similar places, etc.). And if CEA has engaged in misconduct I’d like to know about that, too. But I can’t make any updates based on this post because it doesn’t provide enough evidence to do so.
I wouldn’t put myself at risk of defamation by writing a post detailing SA in EA, nor do I want to speak for CH’s take on this, which is why the evidence feels so scant. With SA, it’ll always be hard to prove it beyond a reasonable doubt, so even if I gave you some evidence, you could refute it.
Also, this probably the post speaks more strongly to people who were following the post on the Time article (esp my posts) but doesn’t make a lot of sense if you just dropped in now.