Preventing Future Incidents

Commenters focus on debating, questioning, and suggesting ways to prevent the problem, abuse, or incident discussed in the original post from recurring, emphasizing proactive measures over post-incident reactions.

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mewpmewp2 Jan 25, 2021 View on HN

You could try to prevent people from reaching such state in the first place, for future occurrences.

vegedor Dec 25, 2014 View on HN

well, that's something easily prevented beforehand.

tempestn Feb 18, 2022 View on HN

Given you're aware of doing this, could you take some action to prevent it?

protocolture Aug 11, 2023 View on HN

To _prevent_ the abuse... right?

wutbrodo Sep 8, 2019 View on HN

Why would preventing this matter?

jimmyspice Oct 25, 2019 View on HN

Can you be explicit how they would go about preventing that?

Someone Jan 20, 2023 View on HN

Of course, but that can be prevented.

tomcavill Sep 12, 2012 View on HN

Didn't realise that. Looking for ways to ensure that doesn't happen. Do you have any ideas?

lotsofpulp Apr 13, 2018 View on HN

What about preventing this from happening going forward?

cosmotic Apr 15, 2021 View on HN

What is preventing this from happening to someone else?