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Survey Responses!

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The results are in!

Well the results are in and I thank you for all the time, effort and input that went into completing the surveys. We had over 25,000 responses in a two and a half day period which took both Robin and I totally by surprise and just reinforced our belief in the passionate community we have here at NexusMods.

I've put all the comments into two different documents and am now in the process of reading them, making notes and tallying the suggestions up so that we get an idea of what we can do to best improve the experience for you all.

Like I said before, this process is open to the community. So for your information, these are the results of the survey:

Gender:
Male: 88%
Female: 9%
Rather not say: 4%

Age:
18 - 24: 40%
up to 17: 22%
25 to 34: 19%
35 to 44: 8%
45 to 54: 5%
Rather not say: 4%
55 to 64: 2%
65 to 74: 1%
75+: 0%

Visits:
Daily: 49%
Weekly: 36%
Occasionally: 9%
Monthly: 5%
First Visit: 1%

Usage (multiple answers possible):
Mod User: 96%
Browse Around: 20%
Forum User: 9%
Mod Author: 8%

Uploading a Mod is Simple and Easy:
Average: 7.77

I like the look of the website:
Average: 7.59

Easy to Navigate:
Average: 7.58

Find what I want Quickly:
Average 7.24

Everything is clearly labelled:
Average: 7.51

Browsing Experience:
Particular Mod, then browse around: 53%
Browse for Hidden Gems: 44%
Particular Mod, then leave: 3%

Recommend to a friend:
Average: 9.23!!  

An average score of 9.23 out of 10 for recommending to a friend, now that is certainly a good thing to hear.  

We also had an enormous amount of suggestions and feedback, 700+ pages to be precise and I’m actually going through all of it. Some people have gone into incredible detail:

Better tracking of your own comments in various sections/mods, to see when/if someone replies. Better access to mods that are high quality, but haven't got too many downloads and/or endorsements. Many great mods are bogged down way back in the pages, with skimpy clothes and nudes clogging up the front pages.


Many have been listing parts of the site and how they believe it should be changed. Others have blasted down ideas in bullet points including highlighting tagging, making the site more responsive and improving the site search functionality.

It actually doesn't matter how you have given your feedback we are exceptionally grateful for all of it. I have received plenty of PMs too which I will reply to over the course of the next week. Things are pretty go, go, go at the moment but please be aware that I'll reply to everything eventually.

I’ve also created another form incase you wanted to put forward any more feedback and suggestions throughout this process.  You can access that by clicking somewhere around here.

We have picked the 5 winners of the Steam vouchers and will be contacting them via email in the next few days.

So what's the next step? Well, we are looking at taking on a part-time User Experience / User Interface Designer to work with us on interpreting the information we gathered from the surveys, hopefully we can find a passionate person from within the Nexus community, but I will put out a separate post on this very shortly.

Once we have managed to recruit someone to come on board we will begin the whole design process. To begin with this will involve analysing how people use the site, which parts of the site get looked at and how people interact. From that we'll find the areas that can be streamlined and made more intuitive, work out a process flow that people will not find too different from the norm and then begin with wireframes.  

Once we have managed to produce the wireframes these will be shared with the community for feedback.

These are fun times to be here at NexusMods and I'm looking forward to the next month immeasurably.

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  1. trevelon
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    Hell yea! Good job, guys!
  2. LoganWolverine
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    I lean more towards Jeir Explanation of the gender issue, as I myself don't pay much attention to the news on here, when I really should before all else take a peak before wandering off looking for a mod LOL... I'm in a very small percent category 2%, myself as I'm old ...but I have been a gamer for a very long time and I have made a couple of them myself, I have great respect for the very talented individuals on here that produce some of the very best features for a game that right out of the box was Flawed LOL... but thanks to this wonderful community they have kept and continue to keep the game filled with new adventures and wonderful fixes at every turn, So to all of them I say Thank You!!!! and please keep up the great work, and for others out there that think they can't do it, your wrong if this old man can learn all the things I had to learn to make my last mod Rusheeda...Then you can learn how to do them too. So this is my two cents worth LOL to everyone
  3. ElderscrollsGeek
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    I knew that female Skyrim players (at least, on the Nexus) were pretty few c ompared to the males, but those numbers are still pretty surprising. Hehehe, I'm a teenage girl and I get all the pervy mods and nude mods for everyone. Of course, that's probably because of my raging hormones+bisexuality.
    1. KryptikGames
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      I'm a teenage male. lol I understand the raging hormones and bisexuality as well haha
  4. Jokerine
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    Gee. I had no idea girls were so rare around these parts...
    1. Elianora
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      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!
    2. crazytaz
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      all so there are some people who didn't take the survey
    3. MotoSxorpio
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      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.
    4. Niyogi
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      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!
    5. Tamira
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      Yeah, took me by surprise too
    6. SolidusEkans
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      Call NeoGAF!!!
    7. Madcat221
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      Jaxonz, kryptopyr, Mattie, you and me, Tamira, zzjay....


      You two and Tamira were apparent, but... the others? And I thought I was on top of checking profiles to check gender to avoid such awkward moments...
    8. Thumblesteen
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      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.
    9. AmiMizuno
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      >.< Endangered species... lol more like just a dang rare sight. I was surprised too at this very skewed gender numbers!
    10. thesniperdevil
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      I am sure all those skimpy anime mods on the front page don't help in attracting female audiences.
    11. EMS60
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      Hey, not every woman plays SIMS or how things like this are called.

      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.
      <= *praises fadingsignal and Maevan2*

      But seriously... I never thought that the female percentage and my own age range would be so small.
    12. madpaddy
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      3% of those females are probably men pretending to be women, its a bizarre internet phenomenon ive never understood.
    13. Elbethien
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      I thought the same about women, pretending to be male.
    14. llamaRCA
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      I "collect" girl modders (know who they are) because there are so few of us
    15. Signette
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      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.
    16. t3h0th3r
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      I fact, 70% of the Top 10 adult mods are by a female modder
    17. Zchu
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      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 ^^
    18. Jeir
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      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.
    19. nivea
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      *Sobs* Well at least I know there are a few of us out there lol.

      *Hugs Llama*
    20. lydiacat
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      Wow! We are rare. Interesting.
    21. cavity75
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      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.
    22. cavity75
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      GIRLS ADD ME!!!! We need to stick together
    23. llamaRCA
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      @Nivea - *hugs*

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

      llama
    24. DerpyJones
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      ^^ omg a girl!
    25. CoffeeShopSamurai
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      yeah, not gonna lie, that's news to me too
    26. bethjunkie
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      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*
    27. Heaventhere
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      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.

      Was just looking again and saw I am in the 55 to 64, 2 % range... gee many of us either.
    28. taerie
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      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.
    29. DameLoony
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      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.
    30. deleted9904557
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      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.
    31. JZBai
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      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!!!!!!!
    32. nyxalinth
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      Nyxalinth
    33. Eolhin
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      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. 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.
    34. Ash117
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      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...
    35. Eolhin
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      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.
    36. Lisnpuppy
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      <---is one of the 9%
    37. thefinn
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      lol only 5% of us between 45-54 :\
    38. Zaldiir
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      There may be few of you, but by the gods, do you contribute! I think the percentage would be a bit different had the survey only been for mod authors.
    39. ukankissthis
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      As for the gaming industry being aimed at men I am going to point out the obvious sexism, no joke these days but even the top CEO's in the gaming industry will state that that is their targeted market. I am starting to get an idea bout the modding tools and I am going to eventually create my own due to a serious lack thereof.
    40. Saerileth
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      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.


      Uh... I didn't notice any of all that. Maybe I'm playing the "wrong" kind of games? But I never felt put off, certainly not because of my gender.
    41. Signette
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      Uh... I didn't notice any of all that. Maybe I'm playing the "wrong" kind of games? But I never felt put off, certainly not because of my gender.

      Well, considering majority of most popular titles featuring brutal males with weapons (guns or swords) killing as a main goal (like in 90% of video games) making dumb sexist jokes on the go, or female character as main protagonist in waaaay too skimpy looks attracting young horny males...

      Fightning, racing, building or sports don't usually attract females, that's why SIMS is n1 on fem gaming list, which is sad, really...

      That's the gaming industry today.
    42. Saerileth
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      Fightning, racing, building or sports don't usually attract females


      You know, that's actually part of the problem right there - public opinion telling me and other potential gaming women that we have no business enjoying any of these things. Maybe you should start blaming the media for brainwhashing parents into believing that girls need barbies while boys get trucks and squirt guns, instead of condemning gaming companies for making great, successful games.
    43. BlueWarlord
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      The gender results were not a total surprise. I think females tend to be casual gamers, but casuals lean toward console, while serious gamers tend to lean toward PC. So i don't think this poll is representive of the actual female gaming community, just the nexus community.
    44. CriManto
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      Male user here. Oh yea, i think that games and mods are not only for us guys. Games are for all.
    45. tracysilva
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      I thought there would be more ladies too. But in saying that I don't know any other women that play games. Lets hope that improves! (I'm a lady player and love using mods)
    46. CoffeeShopSamurai
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      Plus you've gotta keep in mind that internet surveys are never the most reliable source for information. The numbers they have are probably relatively good, but there is always potential for data to be skewed in one way or another. When there are more people answering, the data isn't as accurate.
    47. megageeklizzy
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      Well, the percentage of the gaming community that is female has been rising quite steadily, and while a lot of people think that females mostly play Candy Crush and other (horribly sexist) "girl games", there is also a growing population of PC and console female gamers. As a female who is a part of the gaming community, as well as a student studying to be an artist in the industry, I think games have taken huge steps toward being better suited to women. Sure, we still have our scantily dressed heroines with thunder-thighs and massive breasts, but at least they aren't stuck in a cage crying while they wait to be rescued by the male protagonist.
    48. KaoFox
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      to be fair i'm not all that surprised at the gap... given all the "Adult" content tailored to guys floods the front pages daily. i think it would be interesting to see the sexuality gaps instead tho.
    49. Badgerwoman
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      9%. Dang. I figured there would be more men, but that's crazy. There has got to be more that just 9%. Even in the MMO good ol boys club, there's more women than that. Maybe its just that more men took the survey, proportionately?
    50. tonycubed2
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      I am in that 5 percent group too. Makes me feel old...
    51. Ithildin
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      <== 9% gender group, 5% age group (first game I ever played was the home version of Atari Pong). I'm a mod user who sometimes creates mods for personal use, participated in the survey, and am very surprised about the gender ratio.
    52. Sertith
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      I'm kind of surprised so many ladies are bothered by the nude/semi nude mods here. Here we are, killing things in this game, kill cams and dismemberment but heaven forbid someone post boob mods? I'm a female gamer, and I don't give a poo if there are some boobs on the front page. If you want more hot nudie guy mods on the front page, make them?

      My only concern about any nude mods, male or female, is the amount of kids that play this game, and come here looking for mods. For the sake of not getting sued, you'd think the "adult" mods would only be visible behind a account creation. I know people lie all the time about ages on the internet, but at least if they HAVE to sign up to see naked elves, you have some defense if a suin' happens.

    53. Socratatus
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      Just the reality. males are far more into games than females, despite what the feminists say. And it isn`t because of bullying or anything like that. That`s just the way it is- Nothing wrong with that.
    54. cavity75
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      Dude feminism is equality it had nothing to do with games yo
    55. Dragonfire12
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      I am deeply troubled by the outcome of this survey regarding the participation of women. So much so that I would suggest to the Nexus Management that they generate a new survey from women only. This simply can not be a true testament to the contribution of women to our community. Please give them their own survey. They deserve it.
    56. Eolhin
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      I really don't see that a survey of women only would have much point... Other than perhaps to indicate what percentage of women who are active here, and answer surveys, are also mod creators, or the like.

      A better idea might be a more extended survey (as in, over a longer period of time), in order to catch people with a wider range of schedules. At least a week would be needed to get a broader picture of things, and even then, this being Summer, the percentage of those still of school age is likely to be skewed higher.

      If the only idea of the survey was demographics, I am sure there is some way for those in charge to access statistics on what percentage of account holders have declared themselves to be what gender, or what age in their profile (as well as those that decline to state). The site also tracks when an account holder was last active, and whether they have posted any mods, so if they wanted to limit the results to only currently active members, or only mod authors, that could be done as well. I would be curious to see those broader statistics myself. But I believe the actual point of the survey was to get opinions of what the site is doing right and wrong, and what users in general thought should be improved, and how. The demographic information on the respondees was, I think, provided more as an interesting aside then as the intended results of the survey.
    57. Amiachan
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      I'm a girl. I'm honestly kinda shocked at the numbers, but it IS true that a lot of girls pretend to be guys online and vice versa, so....how can we tell? Oh well, what does it matter? We're all gamers, that's the important thing~!
    58. BluePianoTwo
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      Wow- I thought that there would be more of us ladies as well. Interesting.
    59. OzoneGames
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      @Elianora now that you mentioned multiple authors that by name that are girls, then all sort of creepy, hopeful or desperate lonely nerds will add them as friends, including me.

      Edit: No, Im not actually going to add anyone. I have too much bride to approach women (or alternatively just too shy)
    60. v1p3r01
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      With all the sexed, skimpy "armor", body textures and what not is no wonder 90% are males. Many never seen a real woman naked up close, so all they can do is make their dream waifu in game while taking the worm out and start burping it with making 100 pics per day to share with the community for "OMG gief likes I am special look at my plastic gurl". Why not just play a direct adult game instead of turning this game into a porn/dressing/character simulator? Each their own. Just my thoughts.

      Still adult mods are lore friendly, the children in the game didn't came out from nowhere. Nor should it be the lack of prostitution, gambling, profanity or generic adult pastures. TES games are so childish when compared to Witcher series.
    61. Mofakin
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      Jaxonz is a female? Now that is a surprise. Given all the technical Mods she created I could have sworn she's a male. I didn't expect kryptopyr to be a female as well...

      Females enrich communitys, half of my friends on Steam are girls...so...
    62. shadowslasher410
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      Being a female gamer/modder (though most of my mods I made for myself so they don't really count, IMO), it IS kind of suprising...
      Just take a look at
      http://msmagazine.com/blog/2013/06/13/actually-about-half-of-gamers-are-women/

      As of 2013, about 45% of gamers are female. I wouldn't be surprised to find that it's increased in the past two years.

      There's an appalling amount of sexism, and comments about domestic violence, rape, and how "Women shouldn't be playing video games, they should be in the kitchen LOL1!1!1!"

      Note: Their words, not mine. I don't agree with it at all- like I said, I AM a female gamer- I'm just bringing it to light, please don't flame me.
    63. Winjin
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      Didn't even have time to complete the survey, was basically away from anything with electricity for the past few days)
    64. NickSheperd
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      I don't know what planet you're living on. But the gaming industry here on Earth has done absolutely no such thing.
    65. Lamproly
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      "I'm kind of surprised so many ladies are bothered by the nude/semi nude mods here. Here we are, killing things in this game, kill cams and dismemberment but heaven forbid someone post boob mods?"

      Nude doesn't bother me. Skimpiness does. Many females pay attention to style and sense of fashion. So if you have a nice armor and just cut out the crotch area and tights, it may attract a male, but is otherwise completely senseless and not aesthetically pleasing anymore. It just looks like they forgot to put on their trousers.
      This makes me really sad because skimpiness for its own sake ruins some good designs.

      I'd also like a tag that you just can hide it in the search. Saves much time.

    66. tiwa44
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      Lamproly, it already exists:

      In the account options popup, click on "block content", then you have a whole bunch of things you can choose to block, such as skimpy stuff. For example, i use it to block translations and saved games. It works really well, shame so many people don't even know it exists.
    67. SammySahm
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      "But seriously... I never thought that the female percentage and my own age range would be so small."

      I, too, was stunned.
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      Haha, same here! My younger sister loves playing Skyrim and I have just introduced her to modding. I think I've been a positive influence in turning her over to the geek side.

      @Elianora, you're one of my favorite modders btw, keep up the awesome work!
    69. miketheratguy
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      I was surprised by the gender percentages as well. I think more women would feel comfortable browsing this site if they didn't run across absurdly giant breasts and transparent dental floss "armor" roughly every eleven seconds.
    70. WightMage
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      Oh cripes, I didn't realize half of those people you listed were women! xD

      Least of all Jaxonz and zzjay.
    71. SnarkyHouseplant
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      Oh my goodness. If it isn't the best player home mod author on the Nexus. I really love your work, especially all the detail and objects all over the place. I have to say it makes all of your player homes feel lived in and sort of real.
      Sincerely, Snarky
    72. xenoforge78
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      It's almost like the gaming industry is tailored to the vast majority of players...
    73. Ellawe
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      I have on occassion pretended to be male on gaming or computer-related websites to just avoid meh-ness on the genderpart. "Ohh you're a girl? We'll use less technical terms." I'm from the science-division of college, where being a girl is still a bit awkward(the gothic part doesnt help but still) so I got used to the feeling now. Even though great games like Mass Effect a.o. exist with awesome female protagonists it's still a bit special to be a girlgamer. I hope in a few years the polls will straighten out into 50%.
    74. Lamproly
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      Thanks, @tiwa44! I'm really surprised that I overlooked "Block Content" all the time! o.O
    75. MineFox
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      9% females doesn't mean that 9% is the total on the nexus...
      it means that 9% voted and you can see that 36% of the voters log in weekly,so maybe there are more that didn't vote if they were male or female or how often do they log in...

      sorry for my english... hope it's not non-sense...
    76. Albinosaurus
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      @Niyogi

      Male mod author/user here, but I was thinking that same thing. I thought it was little more even too, but the sheer number of male-tailored mods does sort of suggest that. =)
    77. RoosSkywalker
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      That actually makes some sense. It happens regularly that men try to hit on girls online, to avoid that, girls can pretend to be men.
    78. BriarRose55
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      the gender numbers surprise me too! i'm annoyed with myself that i wasn't on this month, this is the first i've heard of the survey! had other things to deal with and have been away from the computer
    79. Seehron
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      I'm a female, and I missed the survey.... too engrossed in Witcher 3 to notice anything around me the past few weeks!
    80. Andyno
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      Ahh. The Witcher is a Game of the year... at least until Fallout 4 will come out...
    81. Yuanmonos
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      I'm only slightly suprised by the male dominance.
      Remember the old saying? "On the internet men are men, women are men and little children are the FBI." For a long time I surfed a certain site who's motto was "Tits or GTFO!" should someone just imply to be female. Girls are rather looked as attention wh*%#, because especially in MMORPGs ladies (or rather female avatars, regardless if they are truly girls) are treated better.
      I once saw a pic of a "Games for Girls" stand with MGS with the comments being "nothing out of the ordinary here".
      I'm more than fine to either claim to be male or give no gender at all. I even prefer playing males because ladies have the choises between skimpy and so little armor that they would be dead the second they enter combat or should freeze to death within minutes. I don't mind skimpyarmor if it's tasteful, but if someone claims that a miniskirt version is much better without panties it's what I don't understand.
    82. Ashenfire
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      Me too, I am a female modder (slow but sure modder)
    83. Galadreal
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      I won't say I found it a huge shock...but it was a bit surprising, I mean, I figured we would make up at least 25%. Guess not. Oh well, you still make awesome mods, and share your cool resources. I appreciate that. As for the skimpy armors that seem to upset some people. Hell, I use them all the time. I don't look anything like these body models. In fact, I have more of a Winnie the Pooh physique, so I kind of enjoy being able to have a sexy character, even if it would actually cause horrible death to have that much skin exposed in a real fight.

      Regardless, it does kind of suck in that that are not nearly enough chest and arm baring male armor mods. I don't want to see some guys junk, and it seems like most of the mods for skimpy male armor just have no codpiece...and ew.

      I think I had a point there, but I lost it. Oh well.
    84. Genlisae
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      *tiptoes out of lurking* Female here in the 35-44 range, I know of at least 10 others who fit exactly my demographics right down to visit frequency (weekly if not slightly more often). Of the 10+ I know I have asked 7 and the 8 of us never even saw the survey this was taken from We feel unloved!! (not really, but it would have been nice to join in). Based on my very small, and very informal info gathering session two things become apparent, 1. Women in this demographic range are far more focused on getting what we are looking for and getting back to our games. 2. Wherever the survey was advertised we either don't go or it was presented in a way that was far more likely to grab the male attention.

      Interesting none the less. My inner psych nerd is loving the potential implications to both of the above
    85. ordog2
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      The reality is I don't remember where I found the survey it whas an accident not in very visible place and for days. Many girs hide that they play.
      Once came to as a nice bigboy for changing the ISP modem and sees the opend Oblivion my mother playing it, well he was happy and says: imagine a bunch of directors and important people playing and keeping it secret.
    86. Squashnoggin
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      "Gender:
      Male: 88%
      Female: 9%
      Rather not say: 4%"

      Is Squashy the only one who noticed that these numbers add up to 101% ???

      Is one gender 'double-dipping'?

      Squashy's in the 1st (gender) 7th (age) and a Seriously Competitive "Non-Modder"!

    87. Fuzaki
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      Agree with you there Sertith; there's a reason why you can block certain mod categories on here so I really see no problems. I think most people assume that there are a lot more females on here because many modders are female; probably a poll on just that would report more expected numbers, I assume. Even so though, when you look at the pool of mods, most of them are obviously designed towards the male audience. Seems to me though that a good amount of modders are coming from other modded games, such as the Sims and that has increased the aforementioned notions. Even so, the results are likely skewed. Nothing against the posted content, but I rarely look at the News site and only occasionally click on it if it has a title of interest (as you can guess, I didn't vote in the survey ). I think they should have reported the amount of registered members to get a better idea of that.
  5. Busenlilie
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    Wow the gender numbers really surprised me O.O
    I thought here are an equal number of males and females.
  6. Onidemise
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    I'm a Female player and i love my Fallout/Oblivion/Skyrim

    Didn't realized it was so few females around here :/
  7. GlassDeviant
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    Oh, and here I was thinking we have some hermaphroditic members.
  8. bben46
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    It's called rounding error.
     
    If you round off to the nearest whole number value you can  get 99, 100 or 101 Depending on the actual decimal value and what rounding algorithm you use. However, I wouldn't put it past some to double dip if they can find a way.
  9. eventHandler
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    I guess we've learned that:
    1) Either males are more likely to fill out surveys on modding sites, or females report themselves as male on said surveys.
    2) People over 75 fall into one of these: [a] don't like to take surveys while looking for mods, [b] either decline to answer or lie about age, [c] don't use mods when they play pc games, or [d] still get their mods from dial-up AOL.
    3) It's possible up to half of all mod authors don't use mods themselves.
    4) Between 53% and 97% of people surveyed claim to browse the site, but only 20% admitted to it. So if people responded honestly about the "Browsing Experience" question, then at minimum 33% responded deceptively on the "Usage" question regarding browsing, and as many as 77%* answered deceptively about it.
    5) Possibly as few as 1%** of all forum users are not mod authors.

    *If the 3% who claimed to only search for a particular mod lied and actual claimed they browse under the "Usage" question, then only 17% of the admitted browsers can be the group of interest, and thus the maximum would be as high as 80% of survey respondents were deceptive. If those 3% did not claim to browse, then the maximum possible is 77%.

    **That is 1% of all site users, which is actually 1/9th of survey respondents identifying as forum users. So then it would be just over 11% are non-mod authors, if only counting forum users, and still leave almost 90% of forum users as mod authors.

    Just to avoid arguments, I'm going to explicitly point out this post is humor. I am aware of the flawed assumptions made in both part two and particularly part four (though the main assumption is stated, so the inductive logic that followed is valid if we note that omission is a part of the formal classification of deception in academic communications nomenclature). Part one is valid in this one case, but cannot be extrapolated to a general case based on this small amount of sample data. Part three is actually interesting to consider and entirely possible, though it seems implausible to me. I think part five speaks for itself, through laughter.
    1. GlassDeviant
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      But what exactly is a non-mod author? Or more pertinently, what is a "non-mod"? How can we even know whether a person is an author of one or more non-mods until we know what a non-mod is?
    2. eventHandler
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      Oh, good question! I'm glad you raised it.

      From the technical definition "a non-mod is something that alters your game without modifying, repairing, restoring, or expanding any aspect, content, or functionality of it."

      Not to be confused with an anti-mod, which removes content from a game. Of course, we all know that for every fundamental mod in the universe, there exists a counterpart anti-mod.

      Note that the null-mod is the trivial mod equivalent to a .esp with no entries, if using Bethesda games as an example. However, packing 253 of these into a collection can be used to create a fundamental non-mod. If you were to attempt to make the smallest adjustment by adding one more esp, you would create an unstable non-mod which decays quickly into an anti-mod of considerable destructive power. This catastrophic phenomenon can be observed when unleashed as the baleful conflict of two powerful forces, devastating the mighty the engines of the world one seeks to enter, as it struggles to block the exe from loading with the main esm.

      It just shows how delicate the balance of the natural mod world truly is, and how important we study it further.
    3. Eolhin
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      Aha, but if you view mods, non-mods, and anti-mods as quantum probability fields, and allow for trans-game porting of resources via multi-dimensional reconfiguration, a sufficiently large and catastrophic mod-anti-mod annihilation could fracture off into a new game-dimension, which could then spawn its own mods, anti-mods, and non-mods. This is not to be confused with the process by which game-engines can self-annihilate, or spawn off child-engines in which the game-dimensions that existed in the parent engine could not function or exist. None the less, some (but not all) of the fundamental resource-particles that make up the mods, anti-mods and non-mods could still be translated into the new child-engine space, provided the exact relationship between the source engine and destination engine was well quantified. If the relationship is not known, no such purposeful translation could occur.

  10. Pluupy
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    I didn't know there was a survey. Maybe if the survey was advertised more, there would be more accurate numbers, and more females.