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This is why no one will ever take them seriously, by spamming this thread out to their followings in this way they are attempting to create outside focus on the

This is why no one will ever take them seriously, by spamming this thread out to their followings in this way they are attempting to create outside focus on the HN community not within it. I invite you to see how Hacker News responds to an inherent problem with misogyny in open source. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10819778 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10819778 … https://twitter.com/LilyLemmer/status/682688557018828802 https://twitter.com/LilyLemmer/status/682688557018828802 Admittedly really curious to see how the HN community responds to this. https://twitter.com/randileeharper/status/682683554447265792 https://twitter.com/randileeharper/status/682683554447265792

freebsdgirl 11y ago
A lot of my followers are in the tech community and part of HN. My apologies, and if people find it to be a problem, I'll gladly delete the tweet. I think it's interesting watching how HN responds to posts like this, because they are kind of political, and HN is a good representation of how a lot of people in tech feel. I'll get a lot of support on Twitter (because I've blocked most of the trolls), and 140 characters isn't very much to leave a detailed response, anyways. I like seeing thoughtful criticism, and the HN community is (mostly) good at that. It's why I don't excessively comment in these discussions, except maybe to clear up a point here and there. HN brings up points I haven't thought about, and I don't want necessarily to be part of the discussion about things I've written except as an observer.
- DanBC 11y ago
  You can ignore the person you replied to. Do you have "showdead" turned on in your profile? They've written an abusive post about you in this thread, but it got flagged.
  - freebsdgirl 11y ago
    I saw. But it didn't make this comment necessarily invalid. If there's a policy against putting an HN post on social media when said post involves the person publicizing it, I'm not aware, and I'm happy to fix it if it's a problem. I knew when I posted it that this made the post more likely to attract trolls (sorry, dang), but I know I'm not the only one that watches how HN responds to this kind of topic.
hyperpape 11y ago
In spite of that, I saw several anti-freebsdgirl trolls in the first couple of minutes, leading dang to close the thread to new accounts. Maybe there are people who follow freebsdgirl on twitter who are just here because she tweeted, but I can't tell who they are. In short: you're worried about the wrong people. Edit: I enabled 'showdead': I see I made a mistake. You're not worried about the wrong people. You are them!
- ps4fanboy 11y ago
  In fact you are illustrating my point, by doing that she increased the chances of outsiders "trolls" appearing, then we see a follow up article pointing all the death threats/harassment that those new accounts saying "look at how problematic HN is". I am grateful the mods stopped new accounts from posting before this could happen. EDIT: Someone else having a counter opinion to yours shouldn't make you feel so threatened, lighten up.
  - freebsdgirl 11y ago
    If outside trolls appeared, I'd blame the trolls, not HN. It's fairly easy to see what accounts are new. There have been controversial posts of mine on HN before where new accounts did show up to try to stir up trouble. I challenge you to find any post where I decried HN because of that happening.
    - dang 11y ago
      Trolls show up in these threads no matter what. It wasn't because of your link.

freebsdgirl 11y ago

A lot of my followers are in the tech community and part of HN. My apologies, and if people find it to be a problem, I'll gladly delete the tweet. I think it's interesting watching how HN responds to posts like this, because they are kind of political, and HN is a good representation of how a lot of people in tech feel. I'll get a lot of support on Twitter (because I've blocked most of the trolls), and 140 characters isn't very much to leave a detailed response, anyways. I like seeing thoughtful criticism, and the HN community is (mostly) good at that. It's why I don't excessively comment in these discussions, except maybe to clear up a point here and there. HN brings up points I haven't thought about, and I don't want necessarily to be part of the discussion about things I've written except as an observer.

DanBC 11y ago
You can ignore the person you replied to. Do you have "showdead" turned on in your profile? They've written an abusive post about you in this thread, but it got flagged.
- freebsdgirl 11y ago
  I saw. But it didn't make this comment necessarily invalid. If there's a policy against putting an HN post on social media when said post involves the person publicizing it, I'm not aware, and I'm happy to fix it if it's a problem. I knew when I posted it that this made the post more likely to attract trolls (sorry, dang), but I know I'm not the only one that watches how HN responds to this kind of topic.

hyperpape 11y ago

In spite of that, I saw several anti-freebsdgirl trolls in the first couple of minutes, leading dang to close the thread to new accounts. Maybe there are people who follow freebsdgirl on twitter who are just here because she tweeted, but I can't tell who they are. In short: you're worried about the wrong people. Edit: I enabled 'showdead': I see I made a mistake. You're not worried about the wrong people. You are them!

ps4fanboy 11y ago
In fact you are illustrating my point, by doing that she increased the chances of outsiders "trolls" appearing, then we see a follow up article pointing all the death threats/harassment that those new accounts saying "look at how problematic HN is". I am grateful the mods stopped new accounts from posting before this could happen. EDIT: Someone else having a counter opinion to yours shouldn't make you feel so threatened, lighten up.
- freebsdgirl 11y ago
  If outside trolls appeared, I'd blame the trolls, not HN. It's fairly easy to see what accounts are new. There have been controversial posts of mine on HN before where new accounts did show up to try to stir up trouble. I challenge you to find any post where I decried HN because of that happening.
  - dang 11y ago
    Trolls show up in these threads no matter what. It wasn't because of your link.