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[–]akkordeonplayer[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Moreover, again in my view and only in my view, the way ovarit is set up discourages - even prohibits - thinking and posting in a "big picture" way that seeks to find and explore connections between phenomena that might appear to be separate at first glance when looked at superficially but which are actually linked. I've always been a big picture kind of thinker attuned to how multiple elements and forces shape our lives, and I've always been very interested in history and understanding how the complex forces shaping us in the now came to be - and how we're all products of the past as much as the present.

This is a great way of putting it. The thread I created (that was deleted) was an article could have been linked to GC in that this same political entity that is torturing a particular minority group of women was Tweeting about how they were "re-educating" those same women in terms of their "gender ideology" just a few weeks prior. The manner of which these same people are torturing these women also echos what trans extremists fantasize about doing to "terfs". It's not as if the article was completely unrelated to gender extremism.

It doesn't take a big leap in imagination to wonder and fear that there might be a link between removing posts "for being in the wrong category" and removing them coz they contain "wrong think" and might have been made persons of "the wrong sort."

THIS also, particularly at this moment in time- women are being censored for the most minor "infractions" on various platforms. Deleting entire threads for being slightly off topic seems self-defeating when one reflects on what the larger end goal of the entire website/platform is. Is the end goal to place information in perfectly contained bubbles, or is it meant to educate women about what's going on in the world, and to give them a voice and a means for sharing information?

[–]alttrawl 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The thread I created (that was deleted) was an article could have been linked to GC...It's not as if the article was completely unrelated to gender extremism.

If the source material itself isn't clearly gc to begin with and you don't frame it as a discussion where you point out the less than obvious connection as you have here, then it may be removed. I'm sure if you posted a discussion where you linked the article and wrote your reasoning it would have passed. It's unfortunate you weren't able to see the sidebar on mobile. Yes, the mod who replied to me did come off a little curt when I asked why my post didn't meet the criteria, but I didn't take it personally. I'm sure they're busy removing trolls. It's fine that you dislike the site format and prefer saidit instead but most people want this kind of site format. Originally, these were separate subreddits that were all banned together.

THIS also, particularly at this moment in time- women are being censored for the most minor "infractions" on various platforms. Deleting entire threads for being slightly off topic seems self-defeating when one reflects on what the larger end goal of the entire website/platform is.

Well, it's also important to maintain an orderly site so users can have some certainty that when they click gc they'll get gc discourse and not discussions about women's healthcare. If you try hard enough, anything in women's liberation can be related to gc, it depends on the angle e.g. posting an article about women being misdiagnosed for a certain condition without an obvious connection vs. a discussion containing a link to the article that includes your writeup of why this is relevant