oh i didnt knew you were 'black'. answermug is a really good website, i like it, but the members count is relatively low. theres just the same bunch of active members, and probably not a lot of them are black....
I always wondered about my grandfather. He had sort of a dark skin tone and brown eyes. He didn't look like his other brothers. His last name was 'White'.
For the same reason adultMug is/was slow. I tend to leave membership up to chance and when I have run ads before, it has always been in the same places. Diversity isn't something that just happens, though. It usually has to be cultivated. People tend to stick to a specific social circle and gravitate toward the same things over and over again. Unless I actively recruited or advertised on sites with a greater population of black people, I wouldn't increase our black population.
I do occasionally run campaigns to bring people in from different demographic backgrounds. The adultMug thing was one. I also ran campaigns to try to create more religious and political diversity at one point. The religious campaigns worked to a certain degree. We had a rise in Muslim members for a while. The political ones did not. I may have played it too safe with that because I was afraid if I egged people on, they'd come here to fight.
It's a bit harder for me to identify how to create more racial diversity. To be honest, I have no idea where to start. I would genuinely need a consultant or someone helping me choose locations and create ads because because otherwise I will probably struggle to create any kind of authentic-sounding connection for groups of people who aren't like me.
If you think back to how I approached the adultMug thing, I asked for feedback from others about who we needed to try to reach and bring in. Without that, I would have just brought in more people like me. Ergo, if you, or anyone else for that matter, wants to give me suggestions on how to improve diversity here- where to promote the site and what kinds of links I should attempt to create- I'm all ears. Or eyes, as the case may be.
I really did not, nor do I think about race. This goes for when I never see the person, or when I am face to face. I ask are they good people. In my pup days from E1 to O5 I asked are they a good Marine.
Some things about race you cannot ignore, say skin color. After that is it is all character and culture. Now ignorant slobs do abound regardless of race, those guys and girls I have little time for - if any.
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