Ask HN: Women in tech, how do you find non-toxic work environments?

Re:Ask HN: Women in tech, how do you find non-toxic work env... by tptacek on Monday June 05, 2017 @04:37PM (#14491691)

Dan, your argument about the community would be more compelling if it weren't for the fact that threads like these usually wear concrete shoes in the HN ranking pool. The only portions of these threads most normal readers see is the most toxic part.

I spend a lot of time apologizing for the 10-15 toxic minutes these things spend on the front page before they're flagged out of sight. I understand why that happens, but whatever we want to call it, "healthy" probably isn't it.

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Re:Ask HN: Women in tech, how do you find non-toxic work env... by vikasg on Monday June 05, 2017 @07:09PM (#14493136)

Thank you for saying this. For a community that prides itself on rationality, it's insane that every single issue needs to be relitigated from a position of absolute ignorance. Every "prior" needs to be set at 0.5, right?

While I enjoy the technical expertise that I often find on HN, I'd be more inclined to actually talk about issues like sexism, politics, etc. if I didn't have to start by answering questions like, "is sexism even real?", "was slavery so bad?", "H1Bs are indentured servants", etc.

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Re:Ask HN: Women in tech, how do you find non-toxic work env... by jshevek on Monday June 05, 2017 @07:33PM (#14493309)

Where has anyone seriously questioned whether slavery was bad, and not immediately downvoted to oblivion?

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