On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:00 PM, ChaoticFluffy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chaoticfluffy@gmail.com">chaoticfluffy@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hmmm, interesting. I've often wondered whether I would have had a less pleasant experience fitting into the wiki(p|m)edia IRC channels if I had an obviously-gendered nick. As it is, I get maybe one random pm a month, if that, and most of those are of the vague "hi"-followed-by-silence sort. None that I can remember have ever been sexually explicit, though I think I might have gotten threats once or twice. Maybe one day I'll run my own little experiment and masquerade under a clearly-female name and see how that changes...<br>
<br>-Fluffernutter<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Heh, You know several people already do that little experiment daily. ;) I know of a couple of male regulars who prefer either gender neutral or female names on IRC. I doubt it changes most people's reaction.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Regards<br>Theo</div></div>