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0 pointsgishbunker2y ago0 comments

It's a bug. Bugs happen. Systems are still systems whether they deal with people or code.

When big bugs happen, we evaluate why, and improve the system so it performs better next time. We don't blame people, we focus on what allowed people to make bad decisions. In this case, it sounds like a bad decision making process that needs a patch.

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CrazyStat2y ago

Sure, but if you don't have authority to make the patch, and especially if this sort of thing has happened repeatedly--as the linked post suggests--sometimes it's easier and better for your sanity to just leave the system.

gishbunkerOP2y ago

100%. That's why I ducked out of the boy scouts, why I ducked out of Amazon, why I ducked out of my abusive family.

Some things you do have to step away from.

HelloNurse2y ago

It's a bug when it happens to good people who are both willing and able to improve the system.

When it happens to bullies, they consider themselves smugly successful and coast onwards to the next fiasco.

gishbunkerOP2y ago

It's still a bug. You have to ask "why" more. Why did the system allow bullies to be leaders? What should be done to prevent that?

krainboltgreene2y ago

Thank goodness you're here to tell us what literally no one thought about.

gishbunkerOP2y ago

Other comments are calling for name and shame, or saying that groups cannot make decisions and there should be one authority.

So, while others may have thought the same as me, I am not reading a lot of comments that are in the tone of, "we're here now, how do we make the machine resilient so we never get here again."

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0 pointsgishbunker2y ago0 comments

It's a bug. Bugs happen. Systems are still systems whether they deal with people or code.

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CrazyStat2y ago

gishbunkerOP2y ago

100%. That's why I ducked out of the boy scouts, why I ducked out of Amazon, why I ducked out of my abusive family.

Some things you do have to step away from.

HelloNurse2y ago

It's a bug when it happens to good people who are both willing and able to improve the system.

When it happens to bullies, they consider themselves smugly successful and coast onwards to the next fiasco.

gishbunkerOP2y ago

It's still a bug. You have to ask "why" more. Why did the system allow bullies to be leaders? What should be done to prevent that?

krainboltgreene2y ago

Thank goodness you're here to tell us what literally no one thought about.

gishbunkerOP2y ago

Other comments are calling for name and shame, or saying that groups cannot make decisions and there should be one authority.

So, while others may have thought the same as me, I am not reading a lot of comments that are in the tone of, "we're here now, how do we make the machine resilient so we never get here again."

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