Stack Overflow Isn’t Very Welcoming. It’s Time for That to Change
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Stack Overflow Isn’t Very Welcoming. It’s Time for That to Change
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Re: Stack Overflow Isn’t Very Welcoming. It’s Time for That to Change
#2Previously discussed a few days ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16934942
Re: Stack Overflow Isn’t Very Welcoming. It’s Time for That to Change
#3That's weird. This was discussed here a few days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16934942
Re: Stack Overflow Isn’t Very Welcoming. It’s Time for That to Change
#4"Too many people experience Stack Overflow¹ as a hostile or elitist place, especially newer coders, women, people of color, and others in marginalized groups"
Any evidence for that? Or is it just a "It's 2018, we have to virtue signal"? I'm so sick of stuff like this. Judge people by their character, not skin color or oppression status.
Re: Stack Overflow Isn’t Very Welcoming. It’s Time for That to Change
#5Seems the "?cb=1" in URL let this link be passed through HN duplicated link checking.
Re: Stack Overflow Isn’t Very Welcoming. It’s Time for That to Change
#6"Too many people experience Stack Overflow¹ as a hostile or elitist place, especially newer coders, women, people of color, and others in marginalized groups" Any evidence for that? Or is it just a "It's 2018, we have to virtue signal"? I'm so sick of stuff like this. Judge people by their character, not skin color or oppression status.
Where does it say that people are judged by skin or color.
Looks like you trying to stir something up that isn't there.
Re: Stack Overflow Isn’t Very Welcoming. It’s Time for That to Change
#7"Too many people experience Stack Overflow¹ as a hostile or elitist place, especially newer coders, women, people of color, and others in marginalized groups" Any evidence for that? Or is it just a "It's 2018, we have to virtue signal"? I'm so sick of stuff like this. Judge people by their character, not skin color or oppression status.
One would imagine that it's hostile to folks not indoctrinated in hacker culture, i.e. RTFM, and whatever subculture SO has developed.
Given the anonymity provided by the internet, unless someone goes out of their way to make their various statuses made known they really won't be. So I don't at all buy that this is an overt problem.
So the question becomes, is hacker culture or SO culture hostile to women and minorities inadvertently?
Re: Stack Overflow Isn’t Very Welcoming. It’s Time for That to Change
#8"Too many people experience Stack Overflow¹ as a hostile or elitist place, especially newer coders, women, people of color, and others in marginalized groups" Any evidence for that? Or is it just a "It's 2018, we have to virtue signal"? I'm so sick of stuff like this. Judge people by their character, not skin color or oppression status.
What might evidence look like that would convince you?
Re: Stack Overflow Isn’t Very Welcoming. It’s Time for That to Change
#9If StackOverflow isn't welcoming the owners should look squarely in the mirror before blaming anyone else.
In 2017, Joel made very clear that the only views permissible on StackOverflow were his - https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/342440/time-to-take...
Regardless of where you lived, or what your political stance, if you didn't support "open immigration" you were "morally repugnant and frankly stupid and counterproductive". And then the moderators defended him, and kept his post open.
Not only did they paint 50% of the US population as unwelcome on StackOverflow, they basically forced the rest of the globe to accept his politics or risk being removed from the platform. As surprising as this is to people in the US, but the rest of the world has a wide variety of political opinions that may not align with the now broadly exported Democrat/Republican duopoly.
Re: Stack Overflow Isn’t Very Welcoming. It’s Time for That to Change
#10"Too many people experience Stack Overflow¹ as a hostile or elitist place, especially newer coders, women, people of color, and others in marginalized groups" Any evidence for that? Or is it just a "It's 2018, we have to virtue signal"? I'm so sick of stuff like this. Judge people by their character, not skin color or oppression status.
Where does it say that people are judged by skin or color. Looks like you trying to stir something up that isn't there.
First bullet point in the first paragraph.
>Too many people experience Stack Overflow¹ as a hostile or elitist place, especially newer coders, women, people of color, and others in marginalized groups.