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Why women don't like videogames? (lemmynsfw.com)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (4 children)

OP has been banned, should we delete or keep the thread?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Keep it, some answers were interesting

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

keep it, the conversation was productive, if one sided, and people spent effort writing their messages.

Part of the draw of lemmy is the rich message archive we are building

Honestly, I don't think any thread should ever get removed once it hits a specific threshold of participation. There is nothing worse then spending time crafting messages to have then just poof disappear and gone when someone gets banned, or decides they are not winning the conversation and self-delete the post. Locked is better, because peoples contributions and arguments can be referenced or linked to later.

Remember the hyper paranoid moderator we had for awhile? My biggest issue with them wasn't their level of crazy, that was actually great - it gave us so much to talk about, really amped up participation... My biggest issue was that they would DELETE their threads, zapping all of those discussions and participations.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Remember the hyper paranoid moderator we had for awhile? My biggest issue with them wasn’t their level of crazy, that was actually great - it gave us so much to talk about, really amped up participation… My biggest issue was that they would DELETE their threads, zapping all of those discussions and participations.

Damn, that's a memory I didn't want to remember. What a time.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Off topic: OP keeps getting banned for the same trolling and incel behaviors, recreates a new account to avoid the ban, rinse lather repeat.

Not saying being a moderator or admin gives all the tools or omniscience, to detect this, but is there something available to ban by IP or flag by keywords? They always post the same things over and over.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's a problem inherent of the fediverse. You can't IP ban someone because they can join a different instance.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's indeed it. On the other hand, the community is still small, and such behaviours stands out quite fast, so we can identify their alts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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,

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Yes, definitely, but as of now, we don't have much.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Please delete it