For those out of the loop, WomensStuff has a women-only rule, where men are respectfully asked to not reply to posts.

  • Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    13 days ago

    literally requires zero work to honor.

    No true at all. I must at minimum perform the work to stay attentive to the community and its unique rules.

    Most community rules can be narrowed down to “don’t be a dick” while a women’s only community also requires one to not have a dick or have one but be transitioning away from having one.

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      13 days ago

      The best part is that the second rule of !womensstuff@piefed.blahaj.zone is:

      Don’t be a dick. No personal attacks, no aggression, play nice.

      And apparently they moved because I had blocked the one on lazy.social and haven’t come across the new one. So even blocking to avoid accidentally breaking rules doesn’t always work.

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        13 days ago

        Guess what? If you accidentally break the rules, the mods will helpfully remove the comment and send you a polite reminder! You won’t even lose karma over it because there is no karma! At worst you’ll experience something women often do in real life: having your voice dismissed.

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          13 days ago

          “Having your voice dismissed due to your gender is wrong.”

          dismisses your voice due to your gender

          I hope that’s not a reason they actually give, because it’s incredibly hypocritical.

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          13 days ago

          I think it is hilarious that they have a don’t be a dick rule, it is completely on point. Thank you for the smug explanation about karma that has nothing to do with what we are talking about!

          My lamentation for not having built in tools to allow them or myself to manage participation short of blocks and bans is about the lack of tools. There are settings to limit who can post, but as far as I know there aren’t tools to limit participation short of a ban or block. Heck, I would love the ability to set notes that display for me about communities or users as reminders because I would add notes about not commenting or not down voting for the communities that have that as a rule but also have content I want to see.