This is a list of well-known incidents of sexism, harassment, or other occurrences relevant to the discussion of women and feminism in geek communities. For a chronological list, see Timeline of incidents.
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A Rape in Cyberspace
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Above the Game
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Acme::Playmate talk
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Al Billings threats
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AmazonLISAFail
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An Obstacle for Women in the IT Industry
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Anime Expo hidden camera
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Anti-Pyladies accounts on GitHub
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Antti Aumo at Linux Foundation's LinuxCon Europe 2011
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Assault at OSCON
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ASUS booth babe tweet
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Barbie: I Can Be a Computer Engineer
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Benevolent dictator incident
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Biologigaragen/Labitat/KopenLab sexual harassment, bullying and mobbing.
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BlackHat 2014 incidents
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Brendan Eich Proposition 8 donation
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BSD Daemon booth babes
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C Plus Equality
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Casecamp boobies incident
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Catamorphism's Wikipedia RfA
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CeBIT booth babes
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Ceylon code of conduct
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Chaos Communications Congress 28 incidents
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Chaos Communications Congress 29 incidents
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Codemash sexual assault
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CONFidence 2013 assault
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ConFoo's main sponsor was in the adult entertainment industry
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Coraline Ada Ehmke leaves Github
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Cosplayer assault at San Diego Comic-Con
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CouchDB talk
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Category:Creators of works with issues
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CSconsulting posts sexist posters on college campuses
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Custer's Revenge
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Dana McCallum rape arrest
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Darren Wilson GoFundMe Campaign
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Debconf ftp-masters talk
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Debian and LinuxChix harassment by MikeeUSA
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Debian IRC sexism
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Debian-devel-games trolling
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Defamation of Zoe Quinn
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DEFCON 21 incidents
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DEFCON comic strip incident
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Della computers
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Dickwolves
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Django primary-replica terminology patch dispute
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DojoCon thongs
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Doug Belshaw's 'mother test'
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Dragon*Con bans Backup ribbons
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Dries Drupalcon keynote reactions
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Drupal.org gender discussions
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DrupalCon Paris website
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Ed Kramer and Dragon*Con
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Electronic Gaming Monthly replaced with Maxim
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EMACS virgins joke
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Europython podcast comments
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"even included some wives" thread on Ubuntu Marketing
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F.I.R.S.T. Robotics groping incident
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Fake geek girls
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Fat Princess
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Feminist Frequency Kickstarter backlash
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Feminist Software Foundation
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Flashbelt slide show
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FreeBSD's man page misogyny
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FSF mini-summit on Women in Free Software
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Game Boy Bondage
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GAME JAM walk out
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Gamergate coordinated harassment campaign
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Geek feminism harassment by MikeeUSA
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Geek feminist harassment at OSCON
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Geeklist founders react badly to reporting sexism
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GenCon "Activities for the better half" icon
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GHC 2014 Male Allies Plenary Panel
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Girlfriend mode
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Girls suck at Python
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Gittip crisis
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Go Daddy's advertising
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Good2Go app
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Google engineer writes anti-diversity manifesto
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Google+ name policy debate
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Groping at FOO Camp
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Gurbaksh Chahal domestic violence conviction
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Hans Reiser
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Harassment of Scientific American bloggers
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Harassment of Telsa Gwynne
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Harassment on rAtheism
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Harlan Ellison groping Connie Willis
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Heartbreak & Heroines Kickstarter campaign
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Hostility to a GIMP bug reporter
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IDGA Party dancers
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Incident at World Atheist Convention
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Isla Vista killings
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IT Security Girl of the Year
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It's Okay to be Smart video
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It's Time to Tell Mum campaign
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ITA Software's recruitment ad
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Jace Connors car crash
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Jacob Appelbaum rape report
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Jim Frenkel at WisCon 38
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Julian Assange arrest
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Julie Ann Horvath quit GitHub
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Ladies.py
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Lambdaconf incident
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Launchpad users encouraged to use real names
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Lawrence Summers
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LCA2013 shirtgate
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Lena Söderberg's photograph
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Libuv gendered pronouns patch dispute
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Linux "need support" ad
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Linux Journal blowjob ad
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Linux kernel civility discussion
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Linux Symposium 2008 closing talk
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Locus Online Burqa article
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Mads Christensen and Dell
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Male Champions of Change event
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Male-only Battlefield 3 LAN party
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Manthology incident
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Marieke Hardy name-and-shame incident
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Marion Zimmer Bradley's child abuse
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Mark Shuttleworth at Linuxcon
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Marvel Divas
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Marvel female products
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Marvel halloween costumes
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Mary Jane laundry statue
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Max Temkin rape report
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Michael Lopp rape apologism
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Michael Schwern v. Noirin Plunkett
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Microsoft Dear Azure campaign
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Moonfail
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MXUG mailing list posts
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Naked Password
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Noah Kagan at MicroConf2011
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Node.js technical steering committee fails to enforce code of conduct
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NodeOne Drupal card game ad
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Noirin Shirley ApacheCon incident
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Nymwars
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Oatmeal gaming girl comic
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OpalGate incident
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Open Source Boob Project
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Opera software blatant objectification in advertising
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Paul Burton Talk at ExpressionEngine conference
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PepsiFail
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Perl is my bitch
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Phoronix Foodstruments
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Pimp the Backhanding
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Planet Fedora up-skirting photo
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Planet Mozilla controversy
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Pouet logo incident
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Privilege denial on the Linux Australia list
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Puppy Linux death threats
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PUSH N900 pole-dancing robots
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PyCon 2013 expulsion incident
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PyCon 2013 forking and dongles incident
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Python module names
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Racefail
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Racist HipChat emoticon
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Rape apology on LCA mailing list
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RapeLay
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Reiser fans harrassing women at LCA2007
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René and Readercon
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Rethinking Best Practices Talk at JavaOne
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Rosetta shirtgate
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RPG Camp Kickstarter trolling
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RubyFringe offers girlfriend daycare
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RubyHiroba 2014 incident
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RubyKaigi 2013 Kawaii Incident
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Russian commentary on Ubuntu Women leadership
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Satya Nadella pay inequity comments
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Scans daily suspension
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Serverworks sexist job advert
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Sexism and Racism in Venture Capital
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Sexist joke in Diggnation Podcast
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Sexist jokes at JSConf
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Sexist SXSWi wristbands at MIT Media Lab party
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Sexual and violent references and images in LCA 2011 Keynote
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Sexual assault at Southeast LinuxFest
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SFF harassment revelations 2013
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Shawn L's expulsion from hackerspaces
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Skeptic harassment revelations 2013
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Slender PMWiki
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SLUG Christmas card talk
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SLUG committee 2009 nomination dispute
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SmellyWerewolf incident
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Sony make phones for women
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Special support for women thread on the Linux Australia list
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Spock.com lingerie model incident
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Sqoot Boston API Jam
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Stockholm: An Exploration of True Love
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Stonehenge OSCON parties
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Stormy Peters victim-blaming
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Supertuxkart panties
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SurveyFail
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