Timeline for What can Stack Overflow do to persuade female programmers to participate more?
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| Oct 21, 2014 at 23:57 | comment | added | user273999 | I agree with Sara. It just does not interest me to answer. I come here a lot, almost always, when I have a question. It's a great site because of the fact that you all participate. Sometimes it is difficult to find an answer when you are all in this competition/argument of whose answer is correct. I just have other interests and better ways to spend my time than to go through and participate in an online community. | |
| Aug 22, 2012 at 17:02 | history | edited | yoozer8 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 5, 2010 at 8:07 | comment | added | rwong | @lkessler: Consider different reward models. Currently there is a single measure, the reputation. It seems that maybe males are more likely to buy into a single measure of success. | |
| Nov 22, 2009 at 20:27 | comment | added | lkessler | Cigars: I don't know what changes SO should make. That's why I'm asking the question. | |
| Nov 22, 2009 at 19:09 | comment | added | John Rudy | We're not missing the point, many of us are just not buying your argument and demographic data. And to say, "it is up to SO to change it to make it more appealing to everyone equally" -- exactly what kind of changes would you propose? | |
| Nov 22, 2009 at 5:40 | comment | added | lkessler | random: Of course I do. But you and everyone else keeps missing the point that the percentage of female programmers that don't use the site is much higher than the percentage of male programmers that don't use it. | |
| Nov 22, 2009 at 3:50 | comment | added | random | @Ikessler You do realise that there are males that are put off by the whole concept of the site as well right? | |
| Nov 22, 2009 at 2:27 | comment | added | lkessler | Thanks Sara, for coming back (after it opened again) and answering. You say: "it doesn't entertain me and I don't find much fulfillment in it". Despite everyone's accusations that I'm a bigot, I think SO is geared more towards males than females, and your answer gives one of the reasons. It is up to SO to change it to make it more appealing to everyone equally. | |
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| Nov 22, 2009 at 0:15 | comment | added | Marc Gravell | That Q/A rate isn't terrible; don't do yourself down. | |
| Nov 21, 2009 at 23:13 | history | edited | Sara Chipps | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Nov 21, 2009 at 23:07 | history | answered | Sara Chipps | CC BY-SA 2.5 |