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Hi everyone -
This post is to clarify the steps we are taking to enforce the rules on this forum.
Please refer to this post for the full list of forum rules.
WARNING BADGES
If we determine that your account activity is obnoxious to other members, but we have not yet decided if it's risen to the point of suspension, you will be issued one of the following badges:
TROLLOLO - User is suspected of being a troll and is under neighborhood watch.
PICKMERELLA - User is not following FDS principles and repeat posting with the same problems or giving bad advice.
TEMPORARY SUSPENSION
If you receive repeated reports of rules violations from various members, you will be assigned a "TEMPORARY SUSPENSION" badge and your account will be temporarily suspended while the mod team reviews your site activity. You will not be able to login or participate in the forum while your account is under review.
Temporary suspensions will be reviewed on a weekly basis to determine when or if your access to the forum should be reinstated.
The length of your suspension will not be disclosed. If we determine your suspension should be permanent, you will be re-assigned a "BANNED" badge.
PERMANENT BAN
If we permanently ban your account, you will be assigned a "BANNED" badge and will no longer be able to login or participate in the forum.
The following rules violations will result in immediate permanent banning:
Racism, race-baiting, racially coded language, ethnocentrism, xenophobia
Racial, ethnic, homophobic or transphobic slurs. These words have been blocked from the forum by our word filter and if we catch you trying to use alternative spelling to get around the word filters, you will be banned.
Spam, suspicious links. We will not take security risks. Link carefully to reputable sites.
REPORTING MEMBERS:
Please click on the user's profile on the website or the app, click the three dots on the right hand side of the screen - and select "report member". Please leave us some brief detail about what rule you suspect the user of violating. Our admin team will review the report and determine if any action should be taken.
Items that are NOT rules violations and will not be removed or policed except in extreme circumstances:
Posting about celebrities/ reality TV
Disgreements on strategies between members that have not been established as FDS Cannon.
Male depravity posts
Content you personally find annoying.
Everybody learns differently. You can "hide" posts & comments on the Wix App if they bother you. Or just scroll past it.
I’m very grateful for the clarification on the forum rules and happy that racism and xenophobia will be banned.
I am very sad that some of the women are freaking out over rules that are more basic than most social media platforms. They’re not asking for your firstborn, they’re asking for basic human decency towards women of color and our queer members. It doesn’t say “trans women welcome” it says no slurs. There’s other websites if all you care about is an anti-trans agenda.
"Transphobic"? So to be clear, are we no longer allowed to point out that pornsick autogynephile men in woman costumes are, and will always remain, men? Because then this becomes yet another space where women are expected to surrender our privacy and safety so that MEN can feel comfortable...
Serious question,
Will this still be a FEMALE only space?
Is there a way to include misogynistic slurs in the list of what will get you banned? I find it concerning that everyone else seems be to protected from slurs (men included) but not women themselves. On a site made for women.
I’m a little concerned over whether FDS will continue to be a FEMALE only space. Our experience with reddit should show what happens once a space starts catering to trans-identified males. They will absolutely take over the space, place themselves at the top of the hierarchy, and ban anyone who dares confront or disagree with them. And that is because they are men. Always have been, and always will be. And that is what men do. I don’t use slurs, but I am a big fan of reality, and I refuse to deny what I know to be reality. You cannot change your sex. Males will never be the partner who gets pregnant, who has (on average) less physical strength, and who faces the same setbacks and hardships that female people face. And who qualifies as trans? Anyone who says they are? Keep in mind that this exact thing happened on reddit: men tried to invade our space, when we said no, they came back and said they were women now. We continued to say no, and they called us tRaNsPhObiC. I’d hate to see one of the last female-only platforms fall victim to such a manipulative move.
UPDATE: after re-reading the linked forum rules and FDS principles, I don’t see anything about “transphobia”, except what might fit under “no obvious baiting”. I support this rule, as there are many people who would like to get us shut down, and may even make bait posts in order to get our host or ISP to drop us (like what happened to kiwi farms). I understand this viewpoint, and hope that the forum rules remain the same.
I find it interesting that the first thing mentioned on the list has to do with racism but not misogyny when it should be the first thing to ever be addressd on a platform created by women for women.
You're concered about slurs for males in dresses but never about slurs that are against women! Which proves yet again that slurs geared at women are the only slurs that are never stigmatized or taken seriously as much as the other "minority" slurs. And your reasoning in the replies is a proof of it.
All you people complaining about not being able to use transphobic slurs are missing the point. This is a public forum where anyone can read the posts and comments. Unless you want FDS to be overrun by shitheads trying to shut us down, this is a rule we need to abide by, regardless of whether we at FDS are female-centred and female only.
Any way we can vet new members better in case they are men trying to get in?
Good list of guidelines! We're here to discuss dating, not to bicker.
Where is the list of FDS cannon posts? To my knowledge the handbook wasn't completely moved over to the website- is it available now or in short form on another post?
And when you block a person then that person should not be able to respond to you or see your posts.
When I hide posts they come back up in the feed again after I have exited the wix app and then got back into the app some time later.
I have deleted and redownloaded the app, yet it keeps happening, so I have to repeatedly hide posts that I have already previously hidden.
Is this just me or is it an app problem?
Sorry, but what EXACTLY are we allowed post on here then???? I don't want to post something that will unknowingly have me reported or banned.
This is great thank you. Quick Q. If a user is tagged with a badge can they see it?
meanwhile there's a ton of people being transphobic in the comments. Please don't let this community be riddled with people that spew such hateful comments