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Re:Leap: An Online Community for Women by ashelmire on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @02:53PM (#16161688)
Do you work for them? There are many women-only forums and groups, including groups specifically for women in tech, on Facebook, Meetup, etc. By all means, create as many as you'd like, but this post of yours reads like an ad.

Edit: Sorry, didn't mean this as an accusation of shilling. I was just somewhat taken aback by the idea that there aren't any other safe spaces on the internet.

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Re:Leap: An Online Community for Women by turinapple on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @02:59PM (#16161754)
I don't work for them, I've been a member for many months now and I'm in lots of other women only communities I would speak highly of, too.
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Re:Leap: An Online Community for Women by Anticapitalist on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @02:57PM (#16161730)
It doesn't read like an ad.

It reads like the often repeated (and ignored) experience of women in tech.

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Re:Leap: An Online Community for Women by ashelmire on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @03:10PM (#16161895)
"There hasn't really been an online forum where I felt safe to have these conversations until now. Now that Leap is here I have other people who get me who I can talk to about the stuff that is bugging me."

If this wasn't written by a copywriter I'll eat my hat.

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Re:Leap: An Online Community for Women by dang on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @03:58PM (#16162499)
Would you please stop? She already said she didn't work for them.

Your question was a borderline personal attack in the first place, but I didn't chide you for it, even though this topic makes the downside of such an attack much worse than in a typical thread. Actually I did chide you for it, but then deleted the post because I remembered how sensitive HN users often are to booster comments posted by new accounts. I'm sure you're posting in good faith but this is a particularly poor situation in which to aggressively challenge a new user.

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