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Quote from tanis0

To use myself as an example, I've currently got 31 upvotes for 222 posts (not counting this one), which is ~0.140 upvotes per post. Since I was curious, I just did some spot-checking and that seems to be a relatively high ratio among random male users I sampled (which was a very small sample size of about 20 users). Since she used herself as an example, succubus_queen currently has 53 upvotes for 252 posts, which is ~0.210 upvotes per post, and which is also ~50.6% more upvotes per post than I have. Actually, she has slightly more than that because I just upvoted her for a thoughtful response she made to a question I asked her in another thread.

Now, here are some possible explanations:

1) Her posts are more well-written than mine.
2) More people agree with what she says than with what I say
3) Topics in which she posts get more eyes than those in which I post
4) She tends to post in threads earlier than I do and thus her posts are more visible and are seen before people move on
5) More people skip my posts because I tend to be longwinded
6) She's been around longer and has posted more than I have and thus has more people who recognize and like her than I do
7) She's more active on this site than I am (she has 12 friends in her list to my zero, for example)
8) The numbers are screwy (She's got 853 active posts but her count only shows 252, so are off-topic not counted the same way, and if not, are upvotes?)
9) She's a woman

Probably all of those are factors to some extent. I don't think that anyone ever thinks, "she's a woman so I'll upvote her." At most, I think they just notice her avatar / forum name, notice she's a woman and then pay more attention to her because that's what guys do. Regardless, I think that's a very small factor in her overall stats. The fact is that she's an intelligent, interesting and polite poster, and that, imho, has far more to do with the upvotes she has than does her gender.

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Quote from Umpa

Lol...I don't know most of the people on that list. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing.

that means.....i only flame non-important people? lulz

Quote from Zera

There are plenty of people with constructive threads with upvotes so this is just an arugment made to bring out flamers/Trolls and the likes which I find kinda sad. I mean you know the response you will get and this isn't based on the so called "facts" caise I'm pretty sure you haven't looked at peoples posts and actually done some propper data mining or math. Aka you are purely trying to start a flame war or start a pretty pointless argument based on what you saw in a few profiles and there is hardly any way this can contribute in anyway but negative.
Personally I don't mind votes and I really couldn't care less about gender considering this is the internet and I would treat them like anyone else.