@moishe26 I don’t think you have proved that the mixture in the CR is any worse than being on any other internet forum (meaning dealing with the regular issues of bitul zman leitzanus etc. which must be dealt with)
Earlier on this thread someone shared the discussion in the poskim about whether kol b’isha ervah applies when you don’t know who the person is. There are many poskim who permit even that.
And that is much worse, since you are literally hearing the voice of the woman. And, according to some poskim, kol b’isha ervah only applies to hearing a woman sing; listening to her talk is not included (although see Kovetz teshuvos of Rav Elyashiv who held it was assur for a woman to give a lecture in front of men, and some communities are strict like this. But others are lenient about this).
Here, we not only are lacking women singing, they are not even “talking” but merely writing down, further removed from the real issur. Thus even if you would know who the woman is, it would be mutar.
And, everything is completely anonymous; so even if it was actual singing there would be room to be lenient.
So here, when we have both advantages, it is very hard to be strict.
As to your concern that “people are developing emotional connections with the other gender”- I don’t think that is a problem here.
First off, that issue is usually mentioned in reference to private communications- emails, DMs, etc. between a man and woman.
When posting in a public forum, there is not nearly the concern of “kirvah”.
Second, the anonymity on this site ensures that there is no intergender emotional connection formed here.
There are numerous people here who I had assumed were one gender, until I found out the opposite.
So even though I know some of them are women, I still relate to them all as being men.
For all the above, I do not believe that this site is so problematic; if you personally feel it is below your standard, then you should definitely get off.
But I don’t think we can insist that everyone get off…