> Is it just me, or does it seem like RinkWorks attracts a significant percentage of female readers?

Appears so. Let's see, there's at least unipeg, Dagmar, Chris, famous, Mousie, me, and a probably a few others I missed (GreenJeanz). Interestingly, none of those names are overtly feminine. Mine isn't either.


> I have no hard statistics, but I get the feeling that a greater percentage of RinkWorks readers are female than the percentage of female web surfers out there. Possibility this perception is because the percentage of male web surfers and female web surfers is equaling out, when only recently the ratio of men to women on the Internet was something phenomenal, like 10 to 1. But it seems like something about RinkWorks hits home with women.

There is, yes, that generalized "feel" to it. I have sort of mentally tallied the user content of various interesting, user-friendly forums I've seen over the years, and for boards that have about 10-15 active posters, you can expect 4-6 female posters. The main thing that characterized these forums was the presence of an active Moderator and, usually, a bad-language filter. The enforced generalized presence of these 2 factors creates a structured format that basically becomes self-policing. So I suppose we like to be able to talk to people who demonstrate some degree of self-control and civility.


> I note this with pleased curiosity. RinkWorks was conceived with no particular target demographic in mind, other than whatever the name of the demographic is that shares my own personal interests. It is therefore not very surprising to me that fantasy fans, movie buffs, and so forth have a strong representation. I'm pleased and mildly intrigued that Christians also have a noteworthy representation, in spite of the fact that very little of RinkWorks is explicitly Christian in nature.

I've been wondering about that too. Perhaps like-minded attracts like? (Though I'm a little worried about how Iss would define "Christian hypocrites", however).


> But women? It's hard enough for me to understand my wife (and I intend no slight to her, however that thought may look in emotionless ASCII) much less women in general and what sorts of online entertainment might appeal to women except insofar as the same sort of entertainment may also appeal to men.

Maybe you're more-or-less talking to female GEEKS here. We're self-selected apart from the general population of mundanes who *wouldn't* be using internet forums.


> I wish now that I had included a gender question on the Reader Survey, so I could go back and see where the trends are. For an impromptu survey of the female readers out there: what draws you to RinkWorks, and what keeps you coming back?

Goofy, friendly excessive verbiage on virtually any topic worth discussing. In other words, interesting people sharing interesting games discussion between people.


> All other comments on this subject are also greatly welcomed.