Survey Responses!

[RayV12]

In response to post #27527754. #27527929, #27528174, #27528204, #27528784, #27529469, #27530964 are all replies on the same post.

jim_uk wrote: That gender ratio is a shock, also the genders add up to 101%.

BlindJudge wrote: Hey Jim,

The actual female percentage is 8.593%, so has been rounded up.

Quite interesting though hey :)

jim_uk wrote: I would have thought 25%+ I won't suggest that women tend to make more noise than men making it feel like there are more of them, that would be wrong. :D

SydneyB wrote: Yes, very interesting, Judge :) I didn't thought there were so few of us around ...

And congratulations on the results :)

DuskDweller wrote: Keep in mind that's a statistics, the percentage is relative to the number of people taking the survey, there could be 50% of female Nexus users but they don't give a damn about taking surveys...
Or on the other hand there could be 0.1% of female Nexus users, but they all took the survey. so there seems to be more of them.

GePalladium wrote: Jim is right... women are in the Nexus. Few, but here and "noisy". Would be interesting to have the statistic "mod autor per sexe". Just curious. I bet the percentage for women will increase. That could explain the "noise" x) *pardon my french*
Edit: even if what DuskDweller said about statistics is completly true.

Cos76 wrote: Yea i could not believe either,it was surprising for me as well,but honestly as long as the community stays at it is i am very happy about it :)As well gratz on the results :)

@BlindJudge, You have one job.. Bring us more gamer chics :)

I was expecting to see more like

Males 60 %
Ponies 10 %
LLamas 2 % (I only know two on here) ;)
Elves 20 %
Females 8 %

Math... I need a nap

[Madcat221]

In response to post #27532749.

LittlePip2 wrote: What are Hidden Gems?

In this context, mods that got overlooked by hotfiles or the pop list. In my survey form, I noted the "Undiscovered" category on deviantArt as a reference to a way to dig them up more easily for more people to see. Edited August 3, 2015 by Madcat221

[bben46]

I am one of the 1%. I was sure there were a few more of us elder gamers here. Maybe, like me, they just didn't bother with the survey. I do know at least one girl gamer that hides her gender on the internet. I am sure there are more. And from my own observation, for a very good reason. Here on the nexus I have seen some of the persecution. And hopefully helped stomp some of it out. But in the on line games it gets insane.

[LavaHawaii]

In response to post #27533699.

bben46 wrote:

I am one of the 1%. I was sure there were a few more of us elder gamers here. Maybe, like me, they just didn't bother with the survey. I do know at least one girl gamer that hides her gender on the internet. I am sure there are more. And from my own observation, for a very good reason. Here on the nexus I have seen some of the persecution. And hopefully helped stomp some of it out. But in the on line games it gets insane.

Hey bben46;
Glad to find someone else in that low percentile. Seeing this age group's representation, its no wonder its difficult to find another wise old gamer like myself. I agree with you that there must be more, but where are they?

Please keep me in mind when looking for multiplayer matches. In fact maybe you can help me with a theory, I would like to prove/disprove. Talk more later.

Respect,
LavaHawaii

[preeum]

In response to post #27527754. #27527929, #27528174, #27528204, #27528784, #27529469, #27530964, #27533204 are all replies on the same post.

jim_uk wrote: That gender ratio is a shock, also the genders add up to 101%.

BlindJudge wrote: Hey Jim,

The actual female percentage is 8.593%, so has been rounded up.

Quite interesting though hey :)

jim_uk wrote: I would have thought 25%+ I won't suggest that women tend to make more noise than men making it feel like there are more of them, that would be wrong. :D

SydneyB wrote: Yes, very interesting, Judge :) I didn't thought there were so few of us around ...

And congratulations on the results :)

DuskDweller wrote: Keep in mind that's a statistics, the percentage is relative to the number of people taking the survey, there could be 50% of female Nexus users but they don't give a damn about taking surveys...
Or on the other hand there could be 0.1% of female Nexus users, but they all took the survey. so there seems to be more of them.

GePalladium wrote: Jim is right... women are in the Nexus. Few, but here and "noisy". Would be interesting to have the statistic "mod autor per sexe". Just curious. I bet the percentage for women will increase. That could explain the "noise" x) *pardon my french*
Edit: even if what DuskDweller said about statistics is completly true.

Cos76 wrote: Yea i could not believe either,it was surprising for me as well,but honestly as long as the community stays at it is i am very happy about it :)As well gratz on the results :)

RayV12 wrote: @BlindJudge, You have one job.. Bring us more gamer chics :)

I was expecting to see more like

Males 60 %
Ponies 10 %
LLamas 2 % (I only know two on here) ;)
Elves 20 %
Females 8 %

Math... I need a nap

Maybe some female modders got tired of browsing through all the excessive t&a mods; there seemed to be more female modders but I think a lot left in the past year. For a woman to come onto this site and see nothing but high def asses and tits, she can easily just leave and look for mods elsewhere. I've recommended friends before and they've commented how the site 'looks like a skyrim pornsite' when I sent them to the front page. It would be nice to see an upgrade.

[llamaRCA]

In response to post #27527754. #27527929, #27528174, #27528204, #27528784, #27529469, #27530964, #27533204, #27534344 are all replies on the same post.

jim_uk wrote: That gender ratio is a shock, also the genders add up to 101%.

BlindJudge wrote: Hey Jim,

The actual female percentage is 8.593%, so has been rounded up.

Quite interesting though hey :)

jim_uk wrote: I would have thought 25%+ I won't suggest that women tend to make more noise than men making it feel like there are more of them, that would be wrong. :D

SydneyB wrote: Yes, very interesting, Judge :) I didn't thought there were so few of us around ...

And congratulations on the results :)

DuskDweller wrote: Keep in mind that's a statistics, the percentage is relative to the number of people taking the survey, there could be 50% of female Nexus users but they don't give a damn about taking surveys...
Or on the other hand there could be 0.1% of female Nexus users, but they all took the survey. so there seems to be more of them.

GePalladium wrote: Jim is right... women are in the Nexus. Few, but here and "noisy". Would be interesting to have the statistic "mod autor per sexe". Just curious. I bet the percentage for women will increase. That could explain the "noise" x) *pardon my french*
Edit: even if what DuskDweller said about statistics is completly true.

Cos76 wrote: Yea i could not believe either,it was surprising for me as well,but honestly as long as the community stays at it is i am very happy about it :)As well gratz on the results :)

RayV12 wrote: @BlindJudge, You have one job.. Bring us more gamer chics :)

I was expecting to see more like

Males 60 %
Ponies 10 %
LLamas 2 % (I only know two on here) ;)
Elves 20 %
Females 8 %

Math... I need a nap

preeum wrote: Maybe some female modders got tired of browsing through all the excessive t&a mods; there seemed to be more female modders but I think a lot left in the past year. For a woman to come onto this site and see nothing but high def asses and tits, she can easily just leave and look for mods elsewhere. I've recommended friends before and they've commented how the site 'looks like a skyrim pornsite' when I sent them to the front page. It would be nice to see an upgrade.

I've been hanging around the Beth communities since 2008. In my experience there are very few female modders or players in the Fallout community. There are more girls active in TES.
Edited August 3, 2015 by llamaRCA

[Jeir]

In response to post #27527609. #27527849, #27527994, #27528224, #27528879, #27528919, #27529224, #27529299, #27529544, #27529909, #27530019, #27530539, #27530744, #27531059, #27532069, #27532379, #27532479, #27532774, #27536949, #27537029, #27537364, #27537434, #27537699, #27537784, #27538114, #27539284, #27542064, #27542384, #27543549, #27544024, #27544079, #27544349, #27545064, #27547409, #27549534 are all replies on the same post.

Jokerine wrote: Gee. I had no idea girls were so rare around these parts... :laugh:

Elianora wrote: Especially when you consider so many of us authors that turn out to be girls!

Jaxonz, kryptopyr, Mattie, you and me, Tamira, zzjay....

Man, now we just need more mod user girls since we have the author front covered! :D

crazytaz wrote: all so there are some people who didn't take the survey

MotoSxorpio wrote: Yeah, quite a shock about the gender numbers. I was sure it was closer to 70-30 male dominant.

Looking forward to what the future brings for the sites. Looks like BlindJudge is jumping in with both feet.

Niyogi wrote: Female user here. I'm super shocked by the gender numbers. I agree with Moto. I thought the gap wouldn't be so large. It does explain the lack of female tailored mods out there though. At least there are some! :)

Tamira wrote: Yeah, took me by surprise too :D

SolidusEkans wrote: Call NeoGAF!!!

Madcat221 wrote:

Jaxonz, kryptopyr, Mattie, you and me, Tamira, zzjay....

You two and Tamira were apparent, but... the others? o_O And I thought I was on top of checking profiles to check gender to avoid such awkward moments...

Thumblesteen wrote: I'm not that surprised, to be honest. I mean, let's face it, the gaming industry have spent the last ten years or so making every effort humanly possible to alienate women. It's quite tragic, really. To all the women out there who still haven't given up on gaming as a passtime, I must say, I'm quite inspired. To put up with all the sexist nonsense is a proper show of strength.

AmiMizuno wrote: >.< Endangered species... lol more like just a dang rare sight. I was surprised too at this very skewed gender numbers!

thesniperdevil wrote: I am sure all those skimpy anime mods on the front page don't help in attracting female audiences.

EMS60 wrote: Hey, not every woman plays SIMS or how things like this are called. :pinch:

But if this is the reflection of the usership I'll never ever wonder anymore why half of the mods want to make your female Dragonborn look like some half nude kindergarten welp with the breast size of Chelsea Charms and the male ones like some watered down Final Fantasy toy boys. :laugh:
<= *praises fadingsignal and Maevan2*

But seriously... I never thought that the female percentage and my own age range would be so small. o_O

madpaddy wrote: 3% of those females are probably men pretending to be women, its a bizarre internet phenomenon ive never understood.

Elbethien wrote: I thought the same about women, pretending to be male.

llamaRCA wrote: I "collect" girl modders (know who they are) because there are so few of us :)

Signette wrote: Not surprised really, my guess that if such question would be put out on ANY gaming-only site/community at its core the numbers would be close to that.

Many women/girls are convinced that gaming is too childish or stupid and don't get involved in it or hiding it as best as they can, but tbh in more or less civil countries EVERYONE is a gamer even if that means some casual mobile or browser gaming.

Stereotypes rules minds these days.

t3h0th3r wrote: I fact, 70% of the Top 10 adult mods are by a female modder ;)

Zchu wrote: People are always surprised I am female. I guess I should add something girly on my user name??? I mean my Avy is my female OC... but still.

I am a mod creator also, I just don't publish my work. I horde my things all for myself =p
The only thing published publicly I helped with is the Fine Faces texture. I worked on the neck, ears and redid the feet textures for SAM body.

One day i will publish one of my mods that is not too personal (not one of my OC's is what I mean)

I also download tons of skimpy armor and have nude mods. Not for any pervy reasons, rather as an artist I find the human form beautiful. I want my characters to be perfect and customized, every bit of them.

That's my 2 cents anyway ^^

nivea wrote: *Sobs* Well at least I know there are a few of us out there lol.

*Hugs Llama* :)

lydiacat wrote: Wow! We are rare. Interesting.

cavity75 wrote: I usually just ignore the skimpy mods, as a woman of course it turned me away from nexus mods for a while. But I've actually been working on creating mods, I've been into stuff like that since I was younger, and I've decided to start. I just block that content and stick to my female characters having their vanilla bodies.

cavity75 wrote: GIRLS ADD ME!!!! We need to stick together

llamaRCA wrote: @Nivea - *hugs* :)

@cavity75 - Hi! Went to add you, but you'd beat me to it!

:) llama

DerpyJones wrote: ^^ omg a girl!

CoffeeShopSamurai wrote: yeah, not gonna lie, that's news to me too

bethjunkie wrote: The survey hung up on me and I don't think it ever submitted so that could have happened to more of us unicorns and skewed the results. I know quite a few female modders and mod users over the age of 35 on these sites.

8% 35-44...buncha whippersnappers! *grumble grumble*

Heaventhere wrote: I am a bit shocked not more of us woman on nexus, really just 9%, blows me away.... or maybe it is not many woman did the survey as I know a lot of woman and 9% seems really small....but even with my name have been called dude so many times in comments I wonder if anyone looks to see who they are commenting to lol.

taerie wrote: I've done my best but all my female friends just kind of roll their eyes and tune me out. I am a female user and (very rudimentary) mod author AND in the 55 to 64 2%! It is damn lonely out here being a unicorn!

All the front page female mods are only annoying to me because they are not balanced by front page male mods. Fix that and it might help the situation.

CaiusN wrote: I agree with Taerie that for me, it's somewhat off-putting to have few to no male front page mods to balance the female ones. I don't mind the skimpy clothing per se, but without male stuff to match it certainly gives me the impression this is a bit of a boy's club. It's not like the system cheats for this either, guys and gals often prefer to play dress-up with female characters. This is more a concern for managing people's first, second, and third impressions so they stick around to share and develop their talents.

So, thinking productively: "hide adult mods" is pretty narrow, but having a '-skimpy' tag setting as the public default for front page views would be a good test to see if it pulls more repeat users. Better tag integration would allow me to search for armor with meshes for both genders, but without avoiding skimpy.

Well I guess I'd better start contributing the sort of things I like in any case. That's the beauty of mods.

akparkison wrote: Happy female user here. And not shocked the number for women players was so low. Honestly. ;)

It is amazing given how MANY modders are females. Seriously. UGH.

JZBai wrote: So to offset the effect of the skimpy female armors and bring in a larger female user base to the Nexus, we need more skimpy male armors on the front page...

COME BACK SCHLONGS OF SKYRIM!!!!! THE NEXUS NEEDS YOUR HELP!!!!!!!

nyxalinth wrote: Nyxalinth :D

Eolhin wrote: I am a female mod author in the 45 to 54: 5%. I have to say, I knew that the numbers were skewed for age and gender, but I didn't think they were THAT skewed. o_O It would be interesting to see if, from a demographic perspective, female users are just less likely to answer surveys. *wry chuckle*

Interesting... if you add up the percentages, you end up with 101% for Gender, and for Age, both. There must be some funky rounding going on there somewhere.

Ash117 wrote: I don't even blink anymore when people say, "Hey man." Or call me dude.
I should probably change the colour of my spartan to pink, but blue is my favourite colour...

Eolhin wrote: I agree with you entirely regarding blue. :) I am not giving it up to dispel gender ambiguity for those that can't be bothered to look up the gender of the person they are addressing. I think "dude" is sort of becoming a universal unisex term though, a kind of gender-non-specific pronoun. Either that, or linguistically, unknown and gender uncertain situations are all defaulting male now.

I was also surprised by the gender results. I make no secret that I'm female (nor did Caliente, when she was still around) and I've never had any issues from other people about it; not even considering the fact I'm co-author of the most popular female body mod on Skyrim Nexus. XD I also know of a number of mod makers and users who are female.
It could simply be that a lot of the ladies around simply didn't answer the survey. Many people just come for the mods, and may not pay attention to the news, so may not have seen it. Edited August 4, 2015 by Jeir

[stanleemojo]

In response to post #27530099. #27530184, #27530349, #27530409, #27530869, #27531289, #27531564, #27532879 are all replies on the same post.

Roguespear wrote: The Steam coupon almost made me skip this survey, I have a Steam account for one reason and one reason only, it was required by Skyrim. Since then Steam has become more and more user unfriendly and after 15 e-mails with support question that went unanswered, Steam for me has fallen into the FOBAR category for me. As for Nexus, it is the shinning star of game sites in my opinion.

Gamwich wrote: Yes, the Steam prize entry was optional..... I personally didn't enter (and I'm sure others also didn't care about winning anything).

RavingRiley wrote: I do like steam, I just wish keeping it running was optional, at least for offline games.

TKHBMVP wrote: For me too, survey was good, prize not relevant for me.

Fluffypuppy666 wrote: Well Roguespear you hit that spot on!
Maybe there should be a survey for how many people hate Steam?
It could start with a -5 to +5, There should be no reason it needs a + but hey each to their own :)

JackJones93 wrote: Well if you run it offline it' s like it isn't even there, it doesn't use that many resources

alexelric wrote: I just hope Nexus doesn't turn into another Steam shitty website

MurdermiesteR wrote: Steam is ok guys. It's just in a different world. I wouldn't really call it a community, per se. I suppose it is technically, though more corporate. Like an apartment verses a neighborhood. Here on Nexus we are free to run wild and build our community as we grow. Having been here for a while, I remember when the roads were a little bumpy. Granted Robin and his crew do all the real work. To their credit it has always been totally transparent, leaving me with a feeling of "pride" as the site leveled up.

Steam just feels cold and sterile to me. A shell that all these people are herded through as their release into the modding wild begins. I try to point the way here. Many are too "green" to venture all the way here. When I got here the forums were like the great tomes of hidden knowledge. I love Nexus.

p.s. I signed up for Steam bucks. Fallout 4 DLC, brothers (and a few sisters)

Not to turn this into an anti-steam section but, if you are connected to the internet and have steam installed on your PC, then it is running. The only time steam isn't running constantly, is when it's not connected to the internet. Turning it to offline doesn't stop the application from running background processes.

[mirasie]

So at least 3% of the people using the nexus are over 55 huh?

That's awesome! Especially since I can't even get my grandma to understand text messaging.

[phipboy]

In response to post #27530099. #27530184, #27530349, #27530409, #27530869, #27531289, #27531564, #27532879, #27534739 are all replies on the same post.

Roguespear wrote: The Steam coupon almost made me skip this survey, I have a Steam account for one reason and one reason only, it was required by Skyrim. Since then Steam has become more and more user unfriendly and after 15 e-mails with support question that went unanswered, Steam for me has fallen into the FOBAR category for me. As for Nexus, it is the shinning star of game sites in my opinion.

Gamwich wrote: Yes, the Steam prize entry was optional..... I personally didn't enter (and I'm sure others also didn't care about winning anything).

RavingRiley wrote: I do like steam, I just wish keeping it running was optional, at least for offline games.

TKHBMVP wrote: For me too, survey was good, prize not relevant for me.

Fluffypuppy666 wrote: Well Roguespear you hit that spot on!
Maybe there should be a survey for how many people hate Steam?
It could start with a -5 to +5, There should be no reason it needs a + but hey each to their own :)

JackJones93 wrote: Well if you run it offline it' s like it isn't even there, it doesn't use that many resources

alexelric wrote: I just hope Nexus doesn't turn into another Steam shitty website

MurdermiesteR wrote: Steam is ok guys. It's just in a different world. I wouldn't really call it a community, per se. I suppose it is technically, though more corporate. Like an apartment verses a neighborhood. Here on Nexus we are free to run wild and build our community as we grow. Having been here for a while, I remember when the roads were a little bumpy. Granted Robin and his crew do all the real work. To their credit it has always been totally transparent, leaving me with a feeling of "pride" as the site leveled up.

Steam just feels cold and sterile to me. A shell that all these people are herded through as their release into the modding wild begins. I try to point the way here. Many are too "green" to venture all the way here. When I got here the forums were like the great tomes of hidden knowledge. I love Nexus.

p.s. I signed up for Steam bucks. Fallout 4 DLC, brothers (and a few sisters)

stanleemojo wrote: Not to turn this into an anti-steam section but, if you are connected to the internet and have steam installed on your PC, then it is running. The only time steam isn't running constantly, is when it's not connected to the internet. Turning it to offline doesn't stop the application from running background processes.

Yeah let's hate on steam for no f**ing reason because we have none!

You obviously have strong bias if you think Nexus "user friendlyness" is honestly that much better than Steam

Edit: Also @alexelric since when has Steam's website mattered? Edited August 3, 2015 by phipboy