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I'm going to use this username for a while and see what it's like.
by nataliehacks 13y ago
I'm going to use this username for a while and see what it's like.
- vonklaus 13y agoI once needed help on a project I was working on (building a lithium iron battery pack out of 18560 cells) and posted as DIYGirl. Got a ton of responses in a relatively less-traversed tech-heavy sub-reddit. If you explicitly state you are female people will treat you different.
- nataliehacks 13y agoHa, I've heard similar stories before. Let's see what happens when I post my next side-project under this account.
- rdl 13y agoIt's also a great trick for buying domain names.
- pavanred 13y agoWell, not necessarily the only factor. When I was living in Bangalore (a few years ago), I remember that if I post a question on StackOverFlow at night (Indian Standard Time), I had a higher chance of getting more responses than if I did it during the day. I presumed it must be because that translates into about morning in Americas and mid day in Europe and probably these places had the bulk of the active users.
- spudlyo 13y agoHeh, a buddy of mine always picks a female username when on freenode IRC looking for help with a technical problem. He says sometimes dudes fight over who has the better solution. Don't fight over me boys!
- Crito 13y agoI wonder how well that would mix with the "assert some thing that you know is wrong, and wait for the corrections to pour in" technique.
- pbiggar 13y agoAdd an email address to your profile. I'll bet that won't be pretty.
- pstack 13y agoI have a very obese male friend who discussed his situation on the internet and had a flood of hateful messages (and mild real life stalking) to the point that he almost had a nervous breakdown. I couldn't count how many times "just kill yourself" or "I hope you fucking die you fat lazy fuck" appeared in his inbox. So, really, it's hard to reduce these ingredients to a sex or gender.