On Thursday, 24 March 2016 at 23:04:42 UTC, QAston wrote:
If only one could somehow engineer societies (males? - that seems to be the problem) meeting your standards.
Well, online one can engineer societies, if one are willing to spend the investments, but men are not the problem. Women are just as dysfunctional as men are, and both men and women experience gender-related discrimination in different fields (custody cases come to mind).
I'll even say that the in-your-face bluntness-agression is preferably to silent aggression/freezing out, because bluntness can be addressed and corrected more easily. Hopefully we don't have a big freezing out problem (but how can you tell?). We do have the occasional bluntness problem.
But let me ask you this question instead: would you expect the average man to feel inclined to join an all-female online community? I wouldn't. Just turn the gender around and ask the same question again: would you expect the average woman to feel inclined to join an all-male online community?
Clearly, you need to think about how you grow your online community if you want to create openings either way.
