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What is up with this?
« on: November 23, 2010, 05:21:05 pm »
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Male to Female Ratio: 4.9:1

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Why is the ratio so unbalanced towards males?
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Re: What is up with this?
« Reply #1 on: November 23, 2010, 05:27:35 pm »
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more males on the website?
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Re: What is up with this?
« Reply #2 on: November 23, 2010, 05:29:13 pm »
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Females have a social life :P ...lol I don't know, males are more prone to procrastination and VN eases your conscience as a good procrastination?
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Re: What is up with this?
« Reply #3 on: November 23, 2010, 05:32:34 pm »
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Quote from: TrueTears on November 23, 2010, 05:27:35 pm
more males on the website?

Apparently! More male users than females, nearly 5 times more! Why is this the case? I can think of no logical and/or un-sexist reason...

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Females have a social life :P ...lol I don't know, males are more prone to procrastination and VN eases your conscience as a good procrastination?

not sure about that statement... We need a female response here.
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Re: What is up with this?
« Reply #4 on: November 23, 2010, 05:34:04 pm »
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nah actually there are some frequent female members here, just that they don't post very much :P
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Re: What is up with this?
« Reply #5 on: November 23, 2010, 05:34:12 pm »
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When you make an account isn't it automatically set as male? or do you have to pick, i forget
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Re: What is up with this?
« Reply #6 on: November 23, 2010, 05:34:24 pm »
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Females may be more independant learners and thus not require the assistance VN provides?
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Re: What is up with this?
« Reply #7 on: November 23, 2010, 05:35:20 pm »
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I think they may be too addicted to facebook and twitter to use anything else...
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Re: What is up with this?
« Reply #8 on: November 23, 2010, 05:37:37 pm »
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Quote from: stonecold on November 23, 2010, 05:35:20 pm
I think they may be too addicted to facebook and twitter to use anything else...
Haha So true!
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Re: What is up with this?
« Reply #9 on: November 23, 2010, 05:37:44 pm »
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and quite a few females deliberately set their gender as male :P
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Re: What is up with this?
« Reply #10 on: November 23, 2010, 05:39:20 pm »
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Quote from: TrueTears on November 23, 2010, 05:37:44 pm
and quite a few females deliberately set their gender as male :P

I balanced that out for the last few months
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Re: What is up with this?
« Reply #11 on: November 23, 2010, 05:40:10 pm »
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Quote from: TrueTears on November 23, 2010, 05:34:04 pm
nah actually there are some frequent female members here, just that they don't post very much :P

some, but not as many as males...

Quote from: _avO on November 23, 2010, 05:34:12 pm
When you make an account isn't it automatically set as male? or do you have to pick, i forget

thats interesting
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Re: What is up with this?
« Reply #12 on: November 23, 2010, 05:45:03 pm »
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Quote from: pi on November 23, 2010, 05:40:10 pm
Quote from: TrueTears on November 23, 2010, 05:34:04 pm
nah actually there are some frequent female members here, just that they don't post very much :P

some, but not as many as males...

Quote from: _avO on November 23, 2010, 05:34:12 pm
When you make an account isn't it automatically set as male? or do you have to pick, i forget

thats interesting
You're not set as male, you don't have a gender :P

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Re: What is up with this?
« Reply #13 on: November 23, 2010, 05:46:59 pm »
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Quote from: TrueTears on November 23, 2010, 05:45:03 pm
Quote from: pi on November 23, 2010, 05:40:10 pm
Quote from: TrueTears on November 23, 2010, 05:34:04 pm
nah actually there are some frequent female members here, just that they don't post very much :P

some, but not as many as males...

Quote from: _avO on November 23, 2010, 05:34:12 pm
When you make an account isn't it automatically set as male? or do you have to pick, i forget

thats interesting
You're not set as male, you don't have a gender :P

Does that defect to 'male' on stats? If so, problem resolved (although the facebook point probably still had some validity :) )

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Re: What is up with this?
« Reply #14 on: November 23, 2010, 05:49:08 pm »
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does this actually matter? not as many girls interested in this type of forum

pi why dont u invite all ur girlfriends onto here and get that ratio more balanced

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