If you have not come across this by now, here is Kathy Sierra (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Sierra) explaining why she has decided to move on:
Trouble at the Koolaid Point http://seriouspony.com/trouble-at-the-koolaid-point While I am a male and have not experienced anything like what Sierra has, I am married to someone who is active online (sporadically) and have two (very) young daughters and I am very troubled by what is transpiring in the male dominated, "chalta hai" troll-filled online society that we are helping build. "But I do think we need more options for online spaces, and I hope one of those spaces allows the kind of public conversations and learning we had on Twitter but where women — or anyone — does not feel an undercurrent of fear watching her follower count increase. Where there’s no such thing as The Koolaid Point. And I also know the worst possible approach would be more aggressive banning, or restricting speech (especially not that), or restricting anonymity. I don’t think Twitter needs to (or even can, at this point) do anything at all. I think we need to do something." -- Kathy Sierra Sierra calls out javaranchers specifically as a great community, though I am not sure how much of a lesson they can serve as other than that it is possible. Does this group have any ideas on what should be done? -skn-
