The story was on the front page for many hours yesterday: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9163309" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9163309</a>.<p>It was reposted today: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9165261" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9165261</a>. We would normally demote that as a duplicate, but we didn't. Users flagged it.
HN penalizes stories with more comments than votes ("flame war detector"). Between that and the inevitable flagging, stories about sexism and/or workplace harassment tend to die quickly on HN.
It appears to have been renamed to "Why didn't you back me up?"<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9163309" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9163309</a>
Although I don't know Kelly Ellis, I believe this is in reference to this: <a href="https://plus.google.com/+KellyEllis/posts/L4wawXpNt25" rel="nofollow">https://plus.google.com/+KellyEllis/posts/L4wawXpNt25</a> -- I am not actually trying to express an opinion on this, but that's the context from yesterday.
I don't think "complicit culture of silence" is quite right as it implies more direct intent. It's more along the lines of "inability to have a difficult conversation".<p>My personal stance is that even though this conversation is difficult, it's worth having. If <i>we</i> can't have it, who can?
This will probably dissappear from the front page too. HN is biased strongly against meta posts.<p>If that happens, that would tragically mirror the tech world's distaste for open and honest discussion of the issues women face in tech.