What GitHub did to kill its trolls | Fusion

amarashar's bookmarks 2017-03-17

Summary:

The biggest change the team has made is asking GitHub engineers to build “consent and intent” into the platform. Users should have the right to consent to being tagged by another user for example. That would have prevented Ehmke’s racist tagging experience. So GitHub tweaked the project-tagging feature to require user approval.

Link:

http://fusion.net/story/369325/how-to-stop-online-harassment/

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Date tagged:

03/17/2017, 18:11

Date published:

03/17/2017, 14:11