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u/CedarWolf

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Howdy, folks. Let's have a quick chat.

Okay, so yesterday we had a lot of nastiness between two folks who decided to do a lot of things that were quite a bit beyond the expected behavior around here.

I banned the AI spammer and all of his alts I could find. If he comes back, I can report them for ban evasion, and that will be for the admins to ban or block the rest of his alts.

As an alternative, I can put up filters to prevent new users from posting. Reddit's been adding new systems for that, but I don't entirely trust them yet. The last time I tried using such filters, the filter started grabbing everything instead of just new user posts, and it caused a lot of problems.

Generally speaking, that's not the vibe we want to give, because those filters tend to prevent legitimate new users from participating as well as catching alt accounts or trolls. We'll start using them if we have to.

As for the other guy, he was very rude in modmail, and while I understand he's upset, this morning he sent about 20 messages in roughly 7-8 minutes and compared me to a rapist, so I muted him for the minimum of three days. It's the shortest mute option available, and I hoped that would give him some time to cool off. Twenty minutes later, he sent me a nasty direct message attacking my gender, which I'm not going to bother with. Some folks just don't want to listen when they're upset, and I understand that.

So for now, until the two of them knock it off, neither one of them are welcome here. Hopefully this will give them time to breathe and cool off, but we'll just have to wait and see how they respond. If they want to keep arguing and sniping at one another, they'll have to do it somewhere else.

Aside from yesterday's activities, this subreddit has not had to ban anyone for bad behavior in over a year. It's a small sub, and it's usually pretty easy to spot the scammers and the spammers and the like. Most of the folks here are pretty chill, and we haven't really needed formal, codified rules.

So let's talk about them.

For a start, I suggest the following:

  1. Be civil and respectful towards others.
  2. No bigotry - no sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, etc.
  3. No scamming or attempting to defraud other users.
  4. No spamming or self-promotion.

Most of these rules are intended to prevent abuse towards other users or abuse of this space in general.

I also understand folks want a 'no AI' rule. Do we want to include AI-generated music, guided meditations and so on, or do we just want a blanket ban on all AI-generated content?

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u/CedarWolf — 26 days ago
▲ 685 r/Genderfae+7 crossposts

Please read as this is very important and relevant for trans individuals especially in the US.

The US Government is currently trying to pass an incredibly dangerous national law for trans youth called HR 2616.

This bill would ban all Federally funded schools from teaching about gender identity or sexual orientation, prevent teachers from using the correct pronouns and names for trans students, remove books with any trans representation in them, and even go as far as to prevent teachers from acknowledging trans identity AT ALL.

Any school that does not follow this will lose all federal funding. This bill would also require teachers to forcibly out trans students to their families, which would be fatal to any trans student with a transphobic Family or just hateful family in general. Trans people are already a group that already has some of the highest rates of being victim to suicide, domestic violence, and sexual assault.

This bill actively makes teachers put those innocent children at such a big risk. This bill has rapidly passed the house this week with support from all 209 republicans, as well as 8 democrats. But, it's still being voted on in the senate, which means there is still time to help stop this.

To help stop this, you can visit 5calls.org (look up 2616 in the search bar), one of the most top issues filed Oppose Attacks on LGBTQ+ Students. Once you put in your general location, it will pull-up contact information for your senator, and give you a script for calling them.

Please consider contributing to the effort. A bill like this would destroy thousands of trans youth. No one deserves to have their identity denied and shoved aside.

Thank you for reading this, my lovely people!

u/CedarWolf — 1 month ago