As promised . . .
The new Editorializing Forum is up and running. Please go over and join!
To keep asshole MRAs and trolls out of what I’m envisioning to be a relatively safe space, I have implemented a couple of measures. First, I must approve your membership. If your username/email is the same as you use to blog or to post at the IBTP Forum, you’ll get approved quickly. If you’re a lurker at either my blog or the IBTP forum, and/or I don’t recognize your username or email, you’ll be moved into a New Member group where you’ll have Read-Only access to most of the forum and limited posting access to the New Editorializers board. If you find yourself unable to post anywhere except there, please post there explaining who you are and why you want to be an Editorializer. Again, bear in mind that this is not to punish or scare off potential members but to keep assholes out of our space. I appreciate your patience as I work to keep the forum safe from those with ill intent.
I should say that the forum is open to men who are pro-/feminist. Those of you who are opposed to this may consider not joining the Editorializing Forum. This aspect of the forum is unlikely to change, as I believe that working with some men is important to the future of the feminist movement.
Please feel free to invite your radfem and radfem-curious friends to join the boards. The goal of the forum is to practice consciousness-raising and to promote feminist activism both online and off. I hope to see many of you there.
Best,
Laceyfish
YAYY!!!!!
Psst if you need some help with moderation I will be glad to do so. I’ve realized that without IBTP I have like nothing to do! :)
Thanks for this, I hope the forum works out.
Your comment over at my place got flagged as spam, but it’s fixed now. Shall be posting soon!
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I hope it works out too, Hellon.
Thanks for taking me out of the spam, Richie. :) Looking forward to talking with you over there!
Not sure if you’d connect my username to my blog, so leaving a message. IBTP frequenter but only occasional commenter. Looking forward to this!
Shall be joining
I signed up. :) I’m also available to be a moderator if you need another (I’m inexperienced, though).
That is excellent, flyinfur. I have approved you (sounds condescending, I know, sorry), so you’re in! If you wanna comment in the thread about wanting to mod, that would help me remember that you want to mod. I’ll get you added to the mod queue as soon as I can.
I need to take a break for a while from spaces that men inhabit.
I hope your forum soars, and will be flourishing in a month or two when I can face such things again.
I understand, theb. Hope you come back around soon.
Hey L, somehow you got caught in my spam filter, I’m so sorry about that, so i only just saw this today, but – YEA! I may not join right away, but I will send you an email before I do (so please don’t give away my username unless I’ve emailed you first!).
Excellent, I’ll keep an eye out for it.
I’ll join but will likely be offline a lot. I just started working and can’t stay at my own place when I work. So my online time i very limited.
You don’t have to feel obligated to join or participate, Mortality. I just wanted to invite you in case you were interested.
I am interested :) I just don’t have any extra time at the moment.
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