Posted by: Michelle Klein-Hass
on December 09, 2004 09:36 AM
[aol]Me too![/aol]
Seriously though, you have to understand that representing as a group of geek women is going to paint a nice huge target on your back from sexist trolls.
There are some real assholes out there who actually like the idea of Geekdom being a "He-man Woman-haters Club" (xref. "Our Gang Comedies" aka "The Little Rascals") and do their best to make your life hell. MsGeek.Org went from being an attempt to do a Geek News site for women to being just my personal blog because some schmucks went in and posted Gay Pr0n pix through a hole in PHPNuke. I busted one of the perpetrators...told his ISP, who pulled his connection. After that, my site was under almost constant attack from a bunch of his little troll buddies.
After someone installed an IRC server through another hole in PHPNuke, my ISP basically told me that hosting my site was too much of a risk. That's when I pulled it down and went silent for a few months.
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Re:Great project! go on!
Posted by: Michelle Klein-Hass on December 09, 2004 09:36 AMSeriously though, you have to understand that representing as a group of geek women is going to paint a nice huge target on your back from sexist trolls.
There are some real assholes out there who actually like the idea of Geekdom being a "He-man Woman-haters Club" (xref. "Our Gang Comedies" aka "The Little Rascals") and do their best to make your life hell. MsGeek.Org went from being an attempt to do a Geek News site for women to being just my personal blog because some schmucks went in and posted Gay Pr0n pix through a hole in PHPNuke. I busted one of the perpetrators...told his ISP, who pulled his connection. After that, my site was under almost constant attack from a bunch of his little troll buddies.
After someone installed an IRC server through another hole in PHPNuke, my ISP basically told me that hosting my site was too much of a risk. That's when I pulled it down and went silent for a few months.
Anyway, that's my story. Some people...[sigh]
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