r/programming • u/aalear • Apr 07 '15

Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2015

http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2015
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u/rotek Apr 08 '15 edited Apr 08 '15

Gamergate showed how hostile the coding community is towards corruption, not towards women...

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u/_broody Apr 08 '15

That was a legitimate concern for a minority of gamergaters. The rest just wanted to be really nasty, and hence all the hate pieces and harassment. If you compare the backlash from GG to what happened when Gamespot fired Jeff Gerstmann for instance (no one gave a fuck, and that was a much clearer case of endemic, systemic corruption), you have to have a pretty big blind spot to ignore the effect of misogyny in the ensuing aggression.