<story><title>Talk: An open-source commenting platform focused on better conversation</title><url>https://coralproject.net/talk/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>olah_1</author><text>&amp;gt;In our study of gender nonbinary people of color, women of color, and online commentary, participants talked about having to constantly run a cost-benefit analysis on participation in any online conversations, based on the likelihood that they would be attacked, merely for participation.&lt;p&gt;4chan solved this problem a decade ago. Put your content before your identity rather than the other way around.&lt;p&gt;In many spaces today, being a straight white man is far more inflammatory than being a non-binary person of color. This is especially true in the open-source community.&lt;p&gt;The solution is to stop pushing your identity onto people when it&amp;#x27;s completely irrelevant. I&amp;#x27;m not saying hide who you are. But it&amp;#x27;s simply not relevant to the vast majority of discussions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jmcqk6</author><text>&amp;gt;In many spaces today, being a straight white man is far more inflammatory than being a non-binary person of color.&lt;p&gt;As a straight white man, this is bullshit.  I have many close friends who are part of the LGBT community, so I can see their experiences compared to my own.  They don&amp;#x27;t go around &amp;quot;pushing their identity onto people&amp;quot; and neither do I. We&amp;#x27;re all just normal people trying to build cool things.&lt;p&gt;And I see my experiences are much more positive than theirs.</text></comment>
<story><title>Talk: An open-source commenting platform focused on better conversation</title><url>https://coralproject.net/talk/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>olah_1</author><text>&amp;gt;In our study of gender nonbinary people of color, women of color, and online commentary, participants talked about having to constantly run a cost-benefit analysis on participation in any online conversations, based on the likelihood that they would be attacked, merely for participation.&lt;p&gt;4chan solved this problem a decade ago. Put your content before your identity rather than the other way around.&lt;p&gt;In many spaces today, being a straight white man is far more inflammatory than being a non-binary person of color. This is especially true in the open-source community.&lt;p&gt;The solution is to stop pushing your identity onto people when it&amp;#x27;s completely irrelevant. I&amp;#x27;m not saying hide who you are. But it&amp;#x27;s simply not relevant to the vast majority of discussions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gdubs</author><text>Did they, though? The only demographics I could find on 4chan are their advertising stats, and according to that the site is 70% men under 35, mostly from the US and a handful of European countries. [1]&lt;p&gt;Doesn’t really sound like a thriving wellspring of diverse opinions.&lt;p&gt;1: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.4chan.org&amp;#x2F;advertise&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.4chan.org&amp;#x2F;advertise&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>