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The Developer Formerly Known as FreeBSDGirl
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Re: The Developer Formerly Known as FreeBSDGirl
#12Notice that this blog post provides zero in the way of evidence. Before assuming everything written here is true, it would be worthwhile to fact check.
Re: The Developer Formerly Known as FreeBSDGirl
#13If Randi Harper the serial harasser and professional cry bully is getting a platform on hacker news than this place has finally kicked the bucket.
Oh yeah, for sure. This is a terrible place. You should go somewhere else.
Re: The Developer Formerly Known as FreeBSDGirl
#14Randi brought it completely upon herself with her insane radical feminist bigotry and disgusting identity politics.
Dig a bit further and you see a deeply troubled narcissist.
The community is so much better off without her.
Re: The Developer Formerly Known as FreeBSDGirl
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#16:(... As someone who didn't really follow the whole controversy the past years, this was an eye-opener for me. Did it really get that bad? Stop tolerating the intolerant! Also, I don't understand the point of GamerGate. As an outsider, all I see is two groups making themselves look really bad and everyone else loosing. You don't convince others by threatening and harassing them, something the extremes at both sides s…
It's a shit storm, which might have had meaning at some point but it's now mostly a way to grab attention by a group of people, mostly looking for ways to make money out of it.
Re: The Developer Formerly Known as FreeBSDGirl
#17What the fuck is wrong with these GamerGate idiots? Is it a mental illness or something?
What does this have to do with GamerGate? This is a feminist talking about an MRA, neither of those things are GamerGate...
I feel like you have conflated the issues a bit maybe?
Re: The Developer Formerly Known as FreeBSDGirl
#18What the fuck is wrong with these GamerGate idiots? Is it a mental illness or something?
It's a natural alliance between people who want to cause a reaction and people who react to anything.
It was pretty much inevitable that these two groups would become the Middle East of the Internet.
Re: The Developer Formerly Known as FreeBSDGirl
#19What did she contribute to FreeBSD? It appears she was involved with marketing and after bullying a bunch of nerds who fought back FreeBSD didn't want her using their trademark.
Re: The Developer Formerly Known as FreeBSDGirl
#20I know most of the people involved in this and it's just a shit sandwich. Randi wanted a person crucified, that's not how companies and foundations function, and thankfully so. I hope she finds success in new endeavors and am sad she had to leave under gross circumstance.
"Randi wanted a person crucified…"
I didn't see that in the article, could you point us to that information?