Our results show that women’s contributions tend to be accepted more often than men’s [when their gender is hidden]. However, when a woman’s gender is identifiable, they are rejected more often. Our results suggest that although women on GitHub may be more competent overall, bias against them exists nonetheless.

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    Looking at their comment history they seem to allways include that link to the CC license page in some attempt to prevent the comments from being used with AI.

    I have no idea of if that is actually a thing or just a fad, but that was the link.

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      Thanks for pointing that out.

      Seems like a wild idea as… a) it poisons the data not only for AI but also real users like me (I swear I’m not a bot :D). b) if this approach is used more widely, AIs will learn very fast to identify and ignore such non-sense links and probably much faster than real humans.

      It sounds like a similar concept as captchas which annoy real people, yet fail to block out bots.