The replies to this were... something. Thanks dudes, you've fully convinced me that this field isn't toxic one bit, and that toxicity has absolutely nothing to do with the gender ratio, which definitely doesn't need to be improved, not at all. Brilliant demonstration by example.https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/1065377414857973761 …
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Sadly not surprised. The kind of trolling I am still receiving for
#protestNIPS is far worse than what I expected (and I did expect). I have had to delete numerous comments from my YouTube videos, block on Twitter, report personal attacks on@mxlearn Feel hopeless8 replies 4 retweets 66 likes -
that's so awful :( so they do this from their ordinary accounts, revealing name, etc?
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Nope. All trolls are anonymous. What more can you expect from these cowards? I am all for respectful dialogue and difference in opinions. But this is very different. I know other women like Amie Wilkinson had to get off social media after alt-right started attacking her
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On the bright side @mxlearn locked these threads after the number of followers shot up to 500k! and comments got out of hand. Forces on social media are stacked against minorities and women. They have to completely disconnect if they become targets
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