> 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.
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That makes sense, and it's something I've never given much thought to, probably for lack of many points of comparison. There are only one or two other message forums out there to which I've ever posted, period. Now that you bring it up, I'll bet precious few of them are as well-moderated as the RinkForum. Same goes for content filtering.

> 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).
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I don't quite understand why you might be "worried", or even what this has to do with RinkForum demographics (care to explain?). But to satisfy your curiosity, I think I'd give a pretty standard definition for hypocrisy -- something along the lines of "habitually failing to practice what one preaches". Of course merely committing a sin doesn't constitute hypocrisy, although there are plenty of folks who'll jump on every mistake made by a professing Christian, seizing the opportunity to use charges of "hypocrisy" as a means of debunking Christian truth-claims. But that's neither here nor there, I guess.

> 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.
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Yay! Female geeks are tres cool.

> Goofy, friendly excessive verbiage on virtually any topic worth discussing. In other words, interesting people sharing interesting games discussion between people.
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"I always enjoy meeting IN-teresting people." --Bugs Bunny

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