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?)
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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.
That was a straight up rant--nothing against you, just a personal pet peeve. Comments like (are there any females on here yet?) set a tone that, unsurprisingly, is frustrating to many women. Yours is not the first by any stretch that I've seen on the bitcoin forums (to which I was specifically referring), merely the colloquial straw. But it is a real issue.
Your larger point is of course, unlike mine, on-topic.