Yet another male perspective on women in free software [LWN.net]

Yet another male perspective on women in free software

Posted Oct 4, 2007 13:16 UTC (Thu) by kfiles (subscriber, #11628)
Parent article: Yet another male perspective on women in free software

Perhaps what's needed most is to get more interested women to subscribe to LWN, so that they can see that (mostly) reasonable discussions *can* occur among geeks. If they're hanging out on LKML and Slashdot, they may not be aware of this fact.

--kirby

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Yet another male perspective on women in free software

Posted Oct 5, 2007 22:51 UTC (Fri) by barbara (guest, #3014) [Link]

>Perhaps what's needed most is to get more interested women to subscribe
to LWN, so that they can see that (mostly) reasonable discussions *can*
occur among geeks. If they're hanging out on LKML and Slashdot, they may
not be aware of this fact.

I find the discussions on LWN *most* of the time are good. They're
polite, respectful, and informative. Some trolls, but not many thank
goodness. LXer is another Linux news site that is up to the same standard
as LWN. I've always avoided Slashdot because the comments are often so
juvenile -- I could say a lot worse, but ... I'm keeping this post
polite. :-)

Yet another male perspective on women in free software

Posted Oct 13, 2007 2:37 UTC (Sat) by Duncan (guest, #6647) [Link]

Another LWN/LXer/Slashdot user here. =8^)

I agree in general, but I've found /. tolerable with the appropriate
settings, once you register. I have Insightful and Informative set +2,
Interesting set +1, Funny set -2, the negatives all at default. That
seems to work quite well. Actually, surprisingly well, altho the
occasional comment slips thru, and I'm sure I miss many I'd like to read
simply because they've not yet been rated any of the I* yet, so my
bonuses for I* hasn't yet kicked in. It certainly DOES cut down the
noise, however, to the point the comments are reasonably useful in
general.

Duncan