Behaviour on the Speculation board: women not welcome?

[nanobrain]

/sigh*/

Are there actually any other women here?

Everyday I wake up and check the posts on the Wall Thread and all that's gone before are (given the time zone) US men measuring their cocks and posturing.  Really guys a Freudian would have field day with some of you. I appreciate speculating is a male dominated area but really...do you have to be so Neanderthal.

I've been reading these forums since almost the beginning and fought the urge to join because internet forums tend to be frat houses in general but at least now I can press ignore on the massive flacid egos like Walsoraj, Crumbs, Pannakke (do you even mine?) or TERA.

Since I've joined I've tried to be helpful and polite, offer some insight where possible (gosh can a noob know anything or be anything other than a spotty adolescent), tried to join in the back slapping, I've sent hopefully helpful PMs to people who have asked for information but most users don't reply and only a small percentage are actually polite - its as if your join date equals your social class.  

Yet, you want the rest of the world to adopt BTC - well, I've got some news guys...new people love being treated like dirt...us women especially...we find it such a winning business strategy. That comes in heavy irony tags for those of you a bit slow on emotional intelligence.

The only positive from the last 8 hours of the above thread is seeing Chodpaba again....hurrah for a polite, sensible and considered voice - I wish you'd restart your Peak/Reversal Watch thread.

The rest of you - try respecting each other and especially newcomers - the world is watching you/us now, you/we are ambassadors for Bitcoin, try and behave like adults.  And perhaps a few less "I'd fap her" and soft-porn images would stop the general tone that you are basically a bunch of bitter, middle-aged, sexually frustrated, misogynistic geeks.

Just a thought

Nan

PS.....and no I'm not a dyke, or not getting any etc etc...happilly married for 14 years.

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[rampantparanoia]

if the world is looking at bitcointalk.org to see whether bitcoin is worth the risk...

...bitcoin is doomed.

[Ibian]

Get back in the kitchen.

[byronbb]

Yes most of this board is the noise of arguing for some reason; but so much of every forum is dominated by such things.

[NamelessOne]

Get back in the kitchen.

Shut the fuck up, I hate my fellow man every single time one says/writes bullshit like. Nanobrain comes on with very reasonable female perspective and you shit all over it for a laugh.  

Nanobrain, while I'm a guy, I can understand your frustration out of empathy. I also understand why many woman simply don't let it be known they are woman online because endless harassment or bullshit like you find annoying. Humanity has a long way left to go.

[ElectricMucus]

if the world is looking at bitcointalk.org to see whether bitcoin is worth the risk...

...bitcoin is doomed.

scnr

[MidnightTokr]

Get back in the kitchen.

Seriously? Fuck off.

[Ibian]

Get back in the kitchen.

Shut the fuck up, I hate my fellow man every single time one says/writes bullshit like. Nanobrain comes on with very reasonable female perspective and you shit all over it for a laugh. 

You too madame.

[jojo69]

tits or GTF....

just kidding

[NamelessOne]

Get back in the kitchen.

Shut the fuck up, I hate my fellow man every single time one says/writes bullshit like. Nanobrain comes on with very reasonable female perspective and you shit all over it for a laugh. 

You too madame.

The world will be a marginally better place once you are gone.

[Chalkbot]

Hehe. Well you sort of have a point. Consider the early adopter crowd, though; it was incredibly difficult for bitcoin to reach beyond the realm of the tech savvy young male, who spends a disproportionate amount of time on the web, and had become accustom to comminicating with memes, and/or trolling the forums. Some of the names you mentioned are people trying to be a d-bag. They are playing a role.

In addition to this, there are another class of commentators in this subforum, the manipulators. You'll see them every day, posting an extremely bearish or bullish view on bitcoin, spreading their own propaganda in an attempt to influence price, or investor emotions. They will also pretend to be really concerned about some flaw that they've identified with bitcoin, and/or, project that it will be worth millions at any moment, based on some example or extrapolation of price movements that they've construed onto bitcoin.

There are also puppets. The alt accounts of the members of the 2 previous categories. They simply log in with another name in order to agree (or sometimes disagree) with themselves, or gang up on those with an opposing view.

Then realize that the incentive to really share your personal views and strategies in this forum is a negative one. In a free market, if everyone agrees on what is going on, or what should happen, or everyone knows what one large entity is going to do, they can use that to their advantage. Bitcoin is a financial instrument after all. This also limits open and honest discussion, to some degree. The speculation forum has a lot of speculators in it.

Once you can categorize people quickly and on the fly, and with liberal use of the ignore button, this place isn't that bad. It just takes some digging.

[Ibian]

Get back in the kitchen.

Shut the fuck up, I hate my fellow man every single time one says/writes bullshit like. Nanobrain comes on with very reasonable female perspective and you shit all over it for a laugh. 

You too madame.

The world will be a marginally better place once you are gone.

Hey, I'm not the one wishing death on people.

[thezerg]

cant say i appreciate this being moved to OT.  its like kick em while they are down.  and the wall observer has been getting rude lately I don't appreciate nsfw images showing up when I try to learn the latest bitcoin news.  this criticism is valid.  mods do your job.

[rampantparanoia]

if the world is looking at bitcointalk.org to see whether bitcoin is worth the risk...

...bitcoin is doomed.

scnr

lol I feel honored.

[nanobrain]

cant say i appreciate this being moved to OT.  its like kick em while they are down.  and the wall observer has been getting rude lately I don't appreciate nsfw images showing up when I try to learn the latest bitcoin news.  this criticism is valid.  mods do your job.

Yeah, it's pretty disappointing isn't it.
I'm going to message Blitz.

[jojo69]

I'm going to message Blitz.

good luck with that

[bit-coinpoker]

 
The rest of you - try respecting each other and especially newcomers - the world is watching you/us now, you/we are ambassadors for Bitcoin, 

Hi Nan, i enjoyed your post, it was insightful, comical (where meant to be), and honest. I've sent a few unanswered PM's too, I was thinking maybe i'm quarantined to the newbie sandbox. I'll PM you to see if it works.
Cheers!
James

[nanobrain]

all i got to say is hahaha at this thread


also OP just use ignore, just about everyone you named, is on my ignore

A shame its just "hahahaha" especially since you appear to be a reasonable man, I enjoy your insights and appear to be in my area of the world - lets face it women can get a raw deal in SE Asia but often work harder and have to put up with far more shit than the men ...but I know you recently treated your partner to a new house, so you are at least doing something

I do use the ignore button but I guess the point of my "rant" was to highlight more the fact that as BTC profile rises this forum, like all things in life it is going to have to adapt or die  - people showing each other some basic respect would seem like a good place to start.

And thank you all for the kind PMs I've been receiving...very cool (as the young folk may have once said)

[Ibian]

 
The rest of you - try respecting each other and especially newcomers - the world is watching you/us now, you/we are ambassadors for Bitcoin, 

Oh yeah, about this bit. I have been here for a few weeks now and have never not felt welcome. Not sure what kind of problem I am supposed to be having with the regs, someone enlighten me so I can feel properly mad about it?

And re: reading this board to find out if bitcoin is worth investing in: that's what I did, and now I'm holding some of them and so is my old man. Maybe I was wrong all along though, it would perhaps have been better to look at the tone of people posting instead of analyzing the numbers?

[beetcoin]

*slips on fedora* ... well, hello m'lady.

oh, and by the way, men can be alpha male assholes, but women can equally be bitches. if this site were a female dominated forum, i'm sure there'd be quite a few catty bad apples.