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Every community that has ever existed self-polices, and (I believe) this is basically insurmountable - the only thing that can be changed is what they self-poli
by gjsman-1000 4y ago
Every community that has ever existed self-polices, and (I believe) this is basically insurmountable - the only thing that can be changed is what they self-police for. Even here, Hacker News, we shame incompetent programmers. We shame misinformation spreaders, particularly those among us. We shame politicians who write laws we don't like. Self-preservative self-policing is pretty normal.
- DaveExeter 4y agoI think it is different. Woman cannot stop 'slut-shaming' any more then men can stop 'objectifying' women. Remember, women are trapped in a zero-sum competition for a limited number of acceptable mates. A programming analog would be commercial software programmers shaming open-source programmers. That doesn't seem to happen.
- yucky 4y ago>women are trapped in a zero-sum competition for a limited number of acceptable mates. Odd, since the majority of men seem to be ones losing out on that though since "acceptable mates" for most women is the top 20% of males. This reminds me of the stat that is meant to guilt society into considering how horrible it is that 1 out of 4 homeless people is a woman. Or even better, the famous Hillary Clinton quote: "Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat."
- twelve40 4y ago> commercial software programmers shaming open-source programmers. That doesn't seem to happen this is a funny comparison : ) But it actually did happen for a while! Ballmer: "Linux is Cancer".