I’ve been extremely lax about enforcing the “feminist, pro-feminist and feminist-friendly” threads lately. I’m making a somewhat early new year’s resolution to stop being lax.<\/p>\n
Here’s the relevant bit<\/a> of blog policy:<\/p>\n Please note that some posts are marked as \u201cfeminist, pro-feminist and feminist-friendly only.\u201d [If you’re not in those categories,] Please do not post comments on those posts. The purpose of this policy is to allow some intra-feminist conversations to take place on \u201cAlas,\u201d while still leaving other conversations open to non-feminist participation. Please respect the spirit of this policy, and not just the letter. Attempts to play \u201crules lawyer\u201d will not be well taken by the moderator.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I’m particularly disappointed at non-feminists who have been regular comment-writers here long enough to know the policy, but who still ignore it. You should know better. If you have a response to a “feminist only” thread you want to post on “Alas,” you may do so in an open thread. Or you can take it to your own blog.<\/p>\n I’ve hesitated to enforce “feminist only” threads — or to moderate in any way at all — in discussions following posts written by folks other than me. That’s been the policy, and I think there were good reasons for it. But I think it’s time to experiment with a change.<\/p>\n So from now on, I’ll feel free to moderate when it seems like an easy call to me (such as telling obviously non-feminists to get out of a feminist-only thread), even if it’s not my thread. When moderation questions are more ambiguous, I’ll leave it to the blogger who started the thread to make the call, but in some cases I’ll put questionable comments into the “needs to be approved” area until the thread-starter has a chance to take a look at it.<\/p>\n At the same time, I have a life outside of this blog. Sometimes I don’t read “Alas” for ten or twenty hours at a time, or more if I’m doing something like plane travel. And sometimes I’m just plain absent-minded. So there are going to be comments that slip through unmoderated. So I’ll ask “Alas” readers to help me out by sending me email if you think there’s a comment I should be concerned with. It’s extra-helpful if you can include some specifics to help me find the comment you mean — for example, by quoting a paragraph of it..<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve been extremely lax about enforcing the “feminist, pro-feminist and feminist-friendly” threads lately. I’m making a somewhat early new year’s resolution to stop being lax. Here’s the relevant bit of blog policy: Please note that some posts are marked as … Continue reading