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Re:Block Party Aims to Be a 'Spam Folder' for Social Media H... by monksy on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @06:15PM (#26244335)
Got evidence for this?

(I'm not calling you wrong here.. I'm just pointing out that it's very hard to correlate a user with a real identity.. there are a lot of people out there)

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Re:Block Party Aims to Be a 'Spam Folder' for Social Media H... by hellomyguys on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @06:23PM (#26244422)
Go play any popular game with voice chat and say you're Black.
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Re:Block Party Aims to Be a 'Spam Folder' for Social Media H... by adjkant on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @06:25PM (#26244451)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhG7SnDyUYQ
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Re:Block Party Aims to Be a 'Spam Folder' for Social Media H... by Clampower on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @06:53PM (#26244682)
Go play any online game and have a gay sounding voice. All of the sudden that great white male privilege women like this think we have also disappears.
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Re:Block Party Aims to Be a 'Spam Folder' for Social Media H... by hellomyguys on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @07:15PM (#26244872)
Yup, I agree women and minority groups are often targeted with online harassment. That also doesn't mean a white gay male doesn't benefit from inherent biases elsewhere in society.
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Re:Block Party Aims to Be a 'Spam Folder' for Social Media H... by statstutor on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @05:09AM (#26248429)
Abuse for having a feminine-sounding voice is not the zinger against male privilege that you think it is.
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Re:Block Party Aims to Be a 'Spam Folder' for Social Media H... by api on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @06:25PM (#26244444)
A friend of mine got on a programming forum once and pretended to be female. The result was far cringier than I would have predicted.
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Re:Block Party Aims to Be a 'Spam Folder' for Social Media H... by abadcwm on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @06:29PM (#26244492)
Similarly, I remember seeing some pretty awful comments on HN threads regarding female programmers.

Comment after comment shitting on their achievements, presumably from mediocre men who feel threatened by a successful woman in the field.

Not just here either. It's an industry-wide problem.

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Re:Block Party Aims to Be a 'Spam Folder' for Social Media H... by abadcwm on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @06:17PM (#26244360)
No, just vibes.

But I know it's something many others have observed too - it's not like I'm inventing this out of nothing.

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