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.
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On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:00 PM, ChaoticFluffy chaoticflu...@gmail.comwrote:
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,
* Ryan Kaldari wrote:
I just read the following paper which describes an interesting study
that was conducted regarding IRC:
http://www.enre.umd.edu/content/rmeyer-assessing.pdf
The researchers created several IRC bots with different names - some
female, some male, and some ambiguous. They put
I just read the following paper which describes an interesting study
that was conducted regarding IRC:
http://www.enre.umd.edu/content/rmeyer-assessing.pdf
The researchers created several IRC bots with different names - some
female, some male, and some ambiguous. They put the bots in several
