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I once needed help on a project I was working on (building a lithium iron battery pack out of 18560 cells) and posted as DIYGirl. Got a ton of responses in a relatively less-traversed tech-heavy sub-reddit. If you explicitly state you are female people will treat you different.

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Well, not necessarily the only factor. When I was living in Bangalore (a few years ago), I remember that if I post a question on StackOverFlow at night (Indian Standard Time), I had a higher chance of getting more responses than if I did it during the day. I presumed it must be because that translates into about morning in Americas and mid day in Europe and probably these places had the bulk of the active users.

Ha, I've heard similar stories before. Let's see what happens when I post my next side-project under this account.

It's also a great trick for buying domain names.

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