Quote from: emansipater on March 04, 2011, 07:44:56 PM

Quote from: Bimmerhead on March 04, 2011, 05:07:48 PM

Perhaps it would be useful information if we had a demographic breakdown of the current members of this forum. Data like:
-gender (are there any females on here yet?)

Don't take it personally, but this is something I get a little tired of. The forum statistics say clearly that one third of registered users here are female. The problem is not getting female users online, it is getting rid of the idea that they already aren't. For example, what gender am I? If you stop to think about it, you assumed I was male, didn't you?

There do exist systemic forces that cause a gender disparity in highly technical or theoretical fields, but women are already online. If they don't feel comfortable posting or identifying themselves, maybe it's not something with regards to them that has to be done.

/rant

Your forum statistics are not reliable because of the large number of spam accounts that are on here.

I'm sorry if I offended you. My remark was based on being a frequent visitor to this forum and only having one self-identified woman post in all that time. And she came on here specifically to bash something someone else had said, not because she was a supporter of bitcoin.
Also, I was referring to gender on this forum, not online as you seem to have interpreted it. As to why some people don't feel comfortable posting, I have no way of knowing why they wouldn't do this. And I don't appreciate the implication that it is the fault of other people on this forum that they won't do so. If you have some concrete allegations to make, please put them out there (in the appropriate thread).

The larger point I was making is it might be helpful to know who we are, so that we can more intelligently reach out to people who haven't heard of bitcoin.