And before some smartass goes like: “are you living in the 90s? Girls play videogames dude, I’m a girl gamer! I even play Fortnite and CoD with my roommates.”

Videogames in terms of the crowds that attracts is male dominated, especially as adults. Some girls replying that they play doesn’t change that fact. I’ve never met a single girl into games… except one. My English teacher, she was younger than me, I think barely an adult (night school for adults). But I quit that place without finishing the studies and never connected with teachers, plus we’re from different countries, there’s no common ground, aside that I’ve never an adult woman into them. Do they think they’re silly and childish?

  • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
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    4 months ago

    There are ways to address this, with various tradeoffs in terms of privacy or engineering

    • instances using oauth to a larger service that handles identity.
    • Require a monetary donation to create a new account (like how metafilter collects $5 to make an account)
    • Have new users be vouched for by existing users (the club membership model)
    • New contributors to a community are quarantined until a moderator approves their messages, and after some level of productive participation they get upgraded to not requiring approval. Then if they go off the rails, they at least had to contribute first
    • etc,etc,etc,