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Re:Sex workers explain why the Safe Tech Act will break the ... by DoreenMichele on Sunday April 18, 2021 @04:42PM (#26856165)
I think your confusion is stemming from the fact that HN Karma and the amount of dollars you make from HN are correlated. They are not.

No, I have no such confusion.

I mention my karma as shorthand for "I appear to have done the best job for figuring out how to participate as a woman here and can't turn it into adequate income though it's an explicit goal of mine."

I'm well aware you have to seek to use it that way and karma score does not directly correlate with success in using it that way. I've sought to use it that way. It has not gotten satisfactory results. I have good reason to believe my gender is a factor in that failure to achieve what I would like to achieve.

Re:Sex workers explain why the Safe Tech Act will break the ... by csomar on Sunday April 18, 2021 @04:58PM (#26856287)
> I have good reason to believe my gender is a factor in that failure to achieve what I would like to achieve.

This is solely your depiction and doesn't make it a truth (and I don't think it's anywhere close to being true). I also think if you keep thinking that, you are unlikely to achieve satisfactory results (and subsequently shift the blame to your gender instead of your strategy).

Re:Sex workers explain why the Safe Tech Act will break the ... by seibelj on Sunday April 18, 2021 @08:04PM (#26857822)
Just having a lot of karma doesn’t mean you “won” HN or deserve a lot of money for posting content. You could post a single time and if it connected with the right person in the right way it could lead to funding or something. If I’m reading you right you are saying that being the highest-karma woman on HN means you deserve income or payments of some sort but that makes no sense.
Re:Sex workers explain why the Safe Tech Act will break the ... by DoreenMichele on Sunday April 18, 2021 @08:13PM (#26857877)
No, that's not at all what I'm saying.
Re:Sex workers explain why the Safe Tech Act will break the ... by atat7024 on Sunday April 18, 2021 @10:49PM (#26858692)
Huh. You having that much karma and whooshing like that is almost a perfect irony.
Re:Sex workers explain why the Safe Tech Act will break the ... by Jarwain on Sunday April 18, 2021 @09:30PM (#26858337)
Seems like something that should be easy to test, right? What are your thoughts on starting another account that appears masculine or makes no indication of gender, and seeing what happens?
Re:Sex workers explain why the Safe Tech Act will break the ... by DoreenMichele on Sunday April 18, 2021 @09:57PM (#26858464)
That doesn't work for a long list of reasons that I get tired of trying to explain. It boils down to "If I have to actively hide my gender to make money in business, my gender is still a barrier to success."

Some issues:

1. If men will only take me seriously if they think I'm a man, what happens if they arrange to meet me in person and find out I'm a woman?

2. How do I arrange to accept payment online for work while continuing to hide my gender? My name is not gender neutral.

3. Business is done on a basis of trust. How do I convince people to trust me when they find out I have been actively deceiving them wrt my identity and gender?

There are other complications specific to me as an individual, but women generally will face the above issues if they try to take advice to simply hide their gender as a supposed "solution" to such problems.

I've heard that kind of thing a lot -- "On the internet, no one knows you're a dog if you don't tell them" -- and it ignores a lot of critical details. You can potentially be anonymous online for purposes of engaging in discussion in a forum but if you wish to actually make money, it gets vastly more challenging to be anonymous and hide your gender.

Re:Sex workers explain why the Safe Tech Act will break the ... by atat7024 on Sunday April 18, 2021 @10:38PM (#26858657)
> my gender is still a barrier to success

But it's no longer a barrier to YOUR success, and you just might, if it's what you want, have the comfort and audience in your success to spread this message more effectively.

But if you feel gas-lit, and like you're yelling into the wind, finish your breath and change tactic.

Re:Sex workers explain why the Safe Tech Act will break the ... by AussieWog93 on Monday April 19, 2021 @07:01AM (#26861285)
I did a fair amount of business through my wife's Facebook account (via groups and marketplace) and never ran into any of the 3 issues you mentioned.

I did run into some sexism, but not enough to make me want to make my own account.

Re:Sex workers explain why the Safe Tech Act will break the ... by atat7024 on Sunday April 18, 2021 @10:40PM (#26858664)
Said another way: get your foot in the door as an androgyny whoever, like most users connecting with other users on the internet do — and then do your thing from there.

Genuinely: Do you want to do business with the sexists etc, anyway?