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

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.

I wonder how well that would mix with the "assert some thing that you know is wrong, and wait for the corrections to pour in" technique.

I have a very obese male friend who discussed his situation on the internet and had a flood of hateful messages (and mild real life stalking) to the point that he almost had a nervous breakdown. I couldn't count how many times "just kill yourself" or "I hope you fucking die you fat lazy fuck" appeared in his inbox.

So, really, it's hard to reduce these ingredients to a sex or gender.