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Wow. This is an app just waiting to be built. I would definitely subscribe to a service like this. And I would happily give money to a nonprofit who provides this as a free service for women in tech. Developers, start your IDEs!
Hahahah oh wow never change Hacker News, never change.
A 5 year jail stint for the next 10 idiots to pull this stunt will reduce the incident rate of this happening a lot faster.
"Many women gamers and developers, as well as those who support them, have lately come under attack from online trolls" Please don't whitewash the GamerGaters who have also experienced such attacks. (For example, one was "doxed" and mailed a knife with a suggestion to kill himself - which I'd argue a far worse "attack" than any online threats. The anti-GamerGate media of course doesn't report on this.)
Where in that sentence are "GamerGaters" excluded?
Wow. This is an app just waiting to be built. I would definitely subscribe to a service like this. And I would happily give money to a nonprofit who provides this as a free service for women in tech. Developers, start your IDEs!
Why not men too?
http://finallyfeminism101.wordpress.com/2007/10/18/phmt-argu...
http://www.robot-hugs.com/but-men/
And it's closely related to the "not all men" line, equally mocked:
http://www.listen-tome.com/save-me/
http://imgur.com/gallery/z5AYz66
But assuming that you are sincere and just unaware of the context: The reason that I personally would offer to fund this service for women in tech is that diversity in tech is an issue I have been working on for a while. Even though women are a relatively small proportion of the field, those women are a disproportionately large share of those getting abused with things like doxxing. I don't like that and want it to stop.
It would be my hope that by offering it widely, it would enable more women to speak up both about tech and about their experience in tech. Which I in turn hope will promote a more diverse and inclusive field. Which I think is a good end in itself, but I also think that means better empathy for all sorts of users of tech, and therefore better products and less systemic waste.
Is that helpful?
The fact most of these sites even have opt-out mechanisms, and that they're apparently effective, is surprising and quite nice. Though, I suspect this became the case out of necessity as a result of horror stories and litigation.
Rather than trying to make it harder for people to stalk/harass/intimidate others by hiding data, why don't we get tough with laws and sentencing? A 5 year jail stint for the next 10 idiots to pull this stunt will reduce the incident rate of this happening a lot faster.
You've suggested a remarkably short-sighted solution to a very thorny problem.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://twitter.com/kingofpol/status/525755692318457856 Keywords "gamergate knife".
I'm sure all the folks claiming @femfreq made up her death threats will be equally skeptical about this one.
Wow. This is an app just waiting to be built. I would definitely subscribe to a service like this. And I would happily give money to a nonprofit who provides this as a free service for women in tech. Developers, start your IDEs!
>And I would happily give money to a nonprofit who provides this as a free service for women in tech. Hahahah oh wow never change Hacker News, never change.