anthonyb

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Author of Hello! Python: http://manning.com/briggs/ anthony dot briggs at gmail.com topcolour dfd7c3

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Comment · 11 years ago

Techraptor is a known Gamergate-friendly site, so you're not going to get any balanced articles out of them: https://medium.com/@zoequinnzel/lets-talk-about-ethics-in-ga...

Comment · 11 years ago

Yes, I based that on what you put in your bio:

    about:	I use this account for things I can't say

Ok, fair enough, you want to keep HN and your personal life separate. And you may be otherwise sincere (at least, you seem to be based on your posts), but that separation makes anything that you post hearsay unless you can back it up externally. You should probably take that into account when trying to bring things from your personal life over into HN.

So perhaps rather than continuing the same pattern of "Randi bad, because I say so", perhaps you can point out somewhere where she's currently failing? I also note that OAPI is more than just Randi, there are several people involved: http://onlineabuseprevention.org/

Comment · 11 years ago

So, the two parts:

2. Unsubstantiated smears, and categorising her as "hostile". You're using an anonymous "throwaway" account, so there's no evidence whatsoever for your claims.

5. Downplaying the extreme harassment as "egregious behavior". Perhaps you (or anyone reading) might want to go look it up yourself, there's pages and pages of this sort of unbelievably obnoxious drivel: https://twitter.com/search?q=%40freebsdgirl%20%23gamergate&s...

The only reason that Randi created GGAutoblocker and the OAPI was because she was targeted by gamergate. And their tactics are, essentially, what you're doing right now - smear tactics.

Comment · 11 years ago

See points 2 and 5 above: you're part of the problem. In addition, labelling Randi as a "harasser" is a common gamergate tactic.

Comment · 11 years ago

Is that actually a real question? Of course they're not going to say anything like that, but you can judge them by their actions (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9437599)

Comment · 11 years ago

You might not like the way he says it, but go back and read the article:

    Kathy Connor, an executive at Kodak, told Roth the 
    company didn’t develop a better film for rendering 
    different gradations of brown until economic pressure 
    came from a very different source: Kodak’s professional
    accounts. Two of their biggest clients were chocolate 
    confectioners, who were dissatisfied with the film’s 
    ability to render the difference between chocolates of 
    different darknesses. “Also,” Connor says, “furniture 
    manufacturers were complaining that stains and wood 
    grains in their advertisement photos were not true to life.”

How is that not racist? The film wasn't an issue when it was just people of colour coming out poorly, but when it's chocolate and furniture being badly exposed, then they develop a new film.

Comment · 11 years ago

Er, that is pretty much a textbook example of racism.

Comment · 11 years ago

Because those things are usually irrelevant, have been tried to no effect or will make the situation worse. Women get raped wearing tracksuit pants and a hoodie, and leaving a domestic violence situation is often the trigger for more violence (including murder) when the abuser catches up.

Comment · 12 years ago

> these comments are not representative of the entire community, or of even a single medium-profile user.

The community doesn't have to be 100% racist or sexist for there to be a problem. These are all from the same threads as the original article: