Ideas to Improve the Forums

[gonzooo]

Really? A ladies' forum?

I propose a guy forum, then. We could call the guys' forum "The Garage" and the ladies' forum "The Kitchen", and perpetuate the usual tired and worthless gender stereotypes that exist.

Is there a need to make a point out of gender?

[samureye]

I guess that would kinda go under the Popsiren forum come to think of it. Maybe make a ladies' thread to start, then we can look at the possibility of something just for women?

[samureye]

Originally Posted by GoNZooo

Really? A ladies' forum?

I propose a guy forum, then. We could call the guys' forum "The Garage" and the ladies' forum "The Kitchen", and perpetuate the usual tired and worthless gender stereotypes that exist.

Is there a need to make a point out of gender?

There is a guy forum for sure, it's called the internet.

Why not try to encourage more women to be part of Revision3?

[ohhoe]

Originally Posted by GoNZooo

Really? A ladies' forum?

I propose a guy forum, then. We could call the guys' forum "The Garage" and the ladies' forum "The Kitchen", and perpetuate the usual tired and worthless gender stereotypes that exist.

Is there a need to make a point out of gender?

Uhmmmm... what?

I wasn't trying to make it a gender thing, plenty of forums I frequent have a male dominate base, and they have a ladies forum for such topics as I stated earlier so specific topics don't get lost in the mix.

[ageexchick]

Originally Posted by ohhoe

I think there's enough, I'm just thinking it could be a place to talk about girls views on tech stuff, as well as... stereotypical lady stuff like crafts / cooking etc.

edit: It could be called like a ladies lounge type area, but of course guys could comment if they have similar interests in baking or knitting or whatever, just for an example.

It seems like it could end the way of the Men's Rights thread, and that is the only thing that would turn me off to the idea.
Also, would you want it so that guys couldn't even really look at it? I mean, we don't want them stealing our grandmother's secret family recipes!! I doubt it would be possibility on this particular site, but... We could find tech crafts. That would be fun.

[ohhoe]

Originally Posted by AGeexChick

It seems like it could end the way of the Men's Rights thread, and that is the only thing that would turn me off to the idea.
Also, would you want it so that guys couldn't even really look at it? I mean, we don't want them stealing our grandmother's secret family recipes!! I doubt it would be possibility on this particular site, but... We could find tech crafts. That would be fun.

No way, I'd encourage dude's participation.

And geek crafts / recipes / whatever was a big part of the idea. I knit, and I was going to knit a scarf with digg on it, but I don't know how to use two colors yet, etc etc. Just like tips and diy help type stuff.

Could it be possible to try it out, and if it doesn't work then can the idea?

[gonzooo]

Originally Posted by samureye

There is a guy forum for sure, it's called the internet.

Why not try to encourage more women to be part of Revision3?

I would hope you could do that by not making a point out of gender. That's the whole point.

A topic is a topic; if it's interesting it's worth making a thread about. If it so happens knitting is an awesome topic, why does it need to be put anywhere but a "regular" forum? If someone has an interest, how would they lose a thread just like that just because it's about something stereotypically female-oriented?

[ohhoe]

Originally Posted by GoNZooo

I would hope you could do that by not making a point out of gender. That's the whole point.

A topic is a topic; if it's interesting it's worth making a thread about. If it so happens knitting is an awesome topic, why does it need to be put anywhere but a "regular" forum? If someone has an interest, how would they lose a thread just like that just because it's about something stereotypically female-oriented?

Because the forum is 99% males, and that's why the thread would get lost because the majority of those males do not share in the same gender specific topics that the women on the board do.

[ageexchick]

Originally Posted by ohhoe

No way, I'd encourage dude's participation.

And geek crafts / recipes / whatever was a big part of the idea. I knit, and I was going to knit a scarf with digg on it, but I don't know how to use two colors yet, etc etc. Just like tips and diy help type stuff.

Could it be possible to try it out, and if it doesn't work then can the idea?

Ok, so it's not really a ladies only type of thing, but more for our discussion topics.
Why not try it? If it doesn't work, oh well.

[hollywoodbound]

Originally Posted by ohhoe

No way, I'd encourage dude's participation.

And geek crafts / recipes / whatever was a big part of the idea. I knit, and I was going to knit a scarf with digg on it, but I don't know how to use two colors yet, etc etc. Just like tips and diy help type stuff.

Could it be possible to try it out, and if it doesn't work then can the idea?

Why can't you just start a thread for the ladies and see what happens? Or you want a whole new are for the ladies?