im so sick of seeing reports regarding men posting in women-only communities and i cant help but get annoyed with these guys.

the rules are clearly presented. either youre not paying attention or youre just an asshole who purposefully throws their opinion in a place explicitly not wanting it.

what the fuck is wrong with you guys?

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    Mod notice: semi-controversial but serious question has been raised about an actual issue. Keep it civil and stay classy.

    If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all. Or at least be tastefully funny about it.

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      Thanks for providing a great reason to leave this community.

      The OP has been hostile in the comments, and in their OP, violating Rule 1, and Rule 5.

      Do better.

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        Thanks for providing a great reason to leave this community.

        It’s not an airport. You don’t need to announce your departure.

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          It’s not an airport. You don’t need to announce your departure.

          I know.

          I did it because I wanted to share my point of view, like you have done here. Both of which are admittedly pointless and time wasting endeavors.

          Also, I’ve always been a bit skeptical when someone decides to leave a community because they don’t like a post and/or poster. As if they represent the totality of the sub.

          It is not about the post or poster, it is about the lack of action from mods in regards to the post or poster. Which is a constant problem in this community that I have noticed, and a good reason to leave it.

          I find it funny that you care so much, so thank you for that.

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        OK, I pulled out a computer for you so I could see the rules side by side with my post because my mobile client doesn’t allow it.

        Rule 1: Be nice and; have fun

        Doxxing, trolling, sealioning, racism, and toxicity are not welcomed in AskLemmy. Remember what your mother said: if you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all. In addition, the site-wide Lemmy.world terms of service also apply here.

        OP came in swinging hot, maybe a little toxic, but there are valid points behind the hot words.

        However, OP has shown that they are able to accept other viewpoints from valid arguments (https://lemmy.ca/post/48960508/18080134). So I would argue this is borderline.

        I have to say, I have no idea what sealioning is though.

        Rule 5: This is not a support community.

        It is not a place for ‘how do I?’, type questions. If you have any questions regarding the site itself or would like to report a community, please direct them to Lemmy.world Support or email info@lemmy.world. For other questions check our partnered communities list, or use the search function.

        This isn’t a “How do I”. This is an open ended attempt (with some frustration) to try to under why members of the community do certain things.

        That’s my view anyway. What’s yours?

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          Sealioning is when someone pretends to be ‘just asking questions’ in good faith in an attempt to sow discord in a community.

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          “Cite sources of your claim, prove it, and spend ages providing material that I will dismiss as irrelevant!”.

          The name comes from this comic:

          Sparrohawcs explanation is also a pretty good one.

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          I shared my view and left the community. Was something about my comment unclear?

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            I didn’t see why it was a clear violation of rule 5. I was wondering why you thought it was

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    Personally, I block pretty much all exclusionary communities for a few reasons:

    • I frequently do not see the community name before looking at a thread and finding something interesting to converse on, partly because of my neurodivergences. This leads to breaking rules without intending to. Safer to block.

    • I sometimes have experienced RSD as a symptom of my neurodivergences and thus intentionally take action to prevent it.

    • I value inclusivity and anarchic social organization as fundamental parts of my ethical framework and find social exclusion based upon a person’s immutable traits incredibly offensive (the intensity of this is definitely related to my neurodivergences as well).

    This is not to say that I don’t believe that women deserve a space where they have control and agency, especially with the immense amounts of misogyny on the Internet and meatspace. Nor do they need to consider my feelings nor any other man’s when deciding their rules and whether to be inclusive or exclusive.

    I do, however, think that the hard-line exclusionary practices diminish the perspective, both for the participants and for men who could definitely use the insights into the bullshit that women have to continue to deal with. Lots of missed opportunity to build understanding and strengthen allyship. It also makes it easier for toxic exclusionary ideologies, like TERFs to take root (every group excluded makes it easier to excuse excluding another) while also preventing people who have not discovered their feminine gender identities from participating in conversation with other women in ways that could help them to uncover important things about themselves.

    Anyway, enjoy and I hope that you find your space helpful to you, regardless of what myself out any other man feels about it. If the community does become inclusive, I’d definitely like to to know so that I can unblock it.

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    Look, I’m not about to post comments myself in those places, but happening upon one recently after a previous post like this, I noticed how poorly the rule was displayed.

    Each post should have a stickied mod comment at the top stating commenting is for women only. Otherwise it’s easy not to notice what community the post is in that you’re responding to, especially on mobile.

    You can expect people to know the rules of any community before posting, or take the time to look, or whatever, but the only person you’re hurting is yourself for having those expectations.

    If your community is public, the onus is on you (or rather, the mods of the community) to make it as clear as possible what the rules are, if they exclude people or go beyond “be civil.”

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    Honestly the varied mobile platforms don’t always present the channel/groups rules in advance. Especially if one is just browsing trending topics. There can potentially be no way for some users to be informed enough before they see a topic they want to interact with.

    Best solution I found for similar issue is polite advisement of the rules via dm or other preferred method and helping them learn and have better internet etiquette.

    Calling folks out publicly can get alot of negative associations with it as well which might end with you group on the wrong end of a troll.

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    Why the hell SOME women can’t stop generalizing men’s behaviour?

    What the fuck is wrong with you, guys?

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        If the community is private you might have a point, but there are very public women’s only communities on this platform who’s conversations show up in the aggregate feeds–that’s not just “conversing amongst themselves.”

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        I worry about what incels write about women in incel forums. It can lead to horrible behavior outside those forums.

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        This I disagree with, as it’s an open community.

        It’s read only to men.

        But don’t post, yes. Period. That part is pretty simple.

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    the rules are clearly presented

    I use Voyager. Community rules are hidden unless you specifically go to that community page, open the menu, and select “sidebar”. It’s incredibly easy to miss.

    If a community only wants some people posting then a quick fix is to not allow just anyone to post to it.

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      I think generally if somebody does this genuinely they are politely told the rules but then some feel hard done by and start whining about it.

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    “The rules are clearly presented”

    WRONG! Posts show up in aggregate lists. You know, like the main page of lemmy instances. Where individual community rules do not appear at all if someone clicks on the post directly. I bet a significant amount of the time, people do not even realize which community they’re replying to posts in.

    Don’t like it? Maybe Lemmy needs a way to either remove communities from standard aggregate lists, or to force a popup of community rules when a post is navigated to for a first time viewer that hasn’t even seen the community page. Then I’d totally understand being pissed off at first time rule violators.

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      There’s no way to “force” anything, different clients are going to behave however they like. Maybe if you need that level of control the Fediverse isn’t the right platform to begin with.

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        Hey, it’s not my desire to have a wholly separate space for a subsection of the community… It’s not my fault OP doesn’t understand the consequences of public message boards. I’m just suggesting ideas that might get closer to their desired mixed reality.

        Obviously if they want to do it correctly, it’d have to be something like a separate women-only instance with approved joins. Then they’d be able to facilitate a space where undesirables cannot post.

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        Because it’s unnecessary in almost all cases. So far there is only one community which forbids people to comment based on who they are, but otherwise the rules boil down to standard acceptable behavior according to common sense. It’s also a nuisance for users: I am quite sure nobody wants to click several times and be derailed to check rules (on mobile) for every comment they want to write in every post they see on a feed. If this would be expected as standard behavior, I would guess even less interactions will happen.

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    Based on the comments here and in the previous similar post I have seen, the vast, vast majority of people (presumably men) highlight how this is a problem of visibility of posts in public feeds.

    It’s a tradeoff between having the community public for discoverability and accepting that many people will not check the rules and violate them, some inadvertently.

    The alternative is to make the community private, and accept that women will need to discover a women-relates community by searching for “women”, which doesn’t seem incredibly unlikely.

    From the sentiments I read, most people wouldn’t care at all if the community was private and wouldn’t have a desire to “invade” it. I definitely feel part of this group.

    Considering that it’s in the interest of the community (apparently) to have only women, I think it’s fair to expect the (minimal) effort from future members to look for it (plus advertising it in posts etc.) on them instead of expecting the vast majority of the users (the fediverse is mostly males) to add friction and having to check the rules of every single community of every post they open (now it might be a community, more might come). Yes, community rules are important, but being realistic, if you don’t behave like an asshole you don’t need to worry about them in 99% of the times.

    However, if this tradeoff is not deemed acceptable, I think there is no point complaining about people “invading” women spaces because it’s guaranteed that many people will comment without reading the rules, as I am sure the almost totality of users does all the time. Even without counting the ones who intentionally violate the rule, there is always going to be an organic amount of people who will do so inadvertently.

    At this point I think the tradeoff is so clear, that discussing the topic in such a confrontational way looks more like rage-bait than anything aimed at solving the problem.

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    It’s not immediately obvious when it appears in your feed, I also don’t think people expect to be excluded due to protected characteristics. I know I wouldn’t have expected a community to discriminate.

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    The rules are not clearly presented when you’re just scrolling through a generic AllPost feed. I’ve almost commented to one of these just the other day before realizing at the last second what community it was.

    Also, when you’re discussing men, especially negatively, and expect men to not jump in to defend themselves, that’s a bit naive to think they’ll stay out of it. Some of those threads can get really echo chamber and dogpile feeling.

    And people would be throwing a shit fit if the genders were reversed here. I’m sure there are some bitter people out there that don’t like the double standard. There seems to be a lot of overgeneralization where the bad behavior of a select few gets broadly painted onto the entire gender. This, again, has a double standard of being an acceptable thing to do, to the point that even within this thread someone is mocking others for pointing out “not all men” as a response.

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    Man here, there have been several times when I have found a thread talking about men and shitting all over all men and painting with broad strokes, claiming that we are all awful and just looking to use women.

    I feel offended at indirectly being included in a group like that, and have joined in discussions in the past to try and explain that we are not all terrible people.

    Over time however, I have learned to ignore the hate spewers and just move on.

    Personally, if I see a community where the rules are politely explaining the situation, I just block the community out of respect for the xommunity.

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      Yeah I blocked it too, but it probably sucks for new users that are just commenting on posts they see because they are popular

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      Those people hate people who come in and say “not all men.” They will say that it’s obvious they are not talking about all men. They don’t feel like they should make the disclaimer. We have the complaints about “not all men” men here in this very thread.

      But what are you going to do? That’s just how women are.