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[–]verytiredverygay 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This seems like a potential problem for community engagement though. Dealing with trolls is important, but it'll also be difficulty to keep fresh blood engaging with posts from people already in the community. I think most places strike a balance by restricting new thread creations to users with an account that's older than a certain age, and a certain number of posts created (10 - 20 is a safe margin usually). That way you don't have to manually go through approvals, and it presents enough of a barrier for casual trolling. Only dedicated trolls will go to the effort of posting stuff that appears to be legitimate and have the patience for threadmaking, which allows them to be weeded out more easily.

I know there's still a lotta folks from the great Reddit censorship era like myself (goodbye gendercritical and any lesbian subreddits) still trying to find like-minded people to connect with.

Wow, the guys really went mask-off here by MBMayfair in LGBDropTheT

[–]verytiredverygay 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The dirty little secret among males who identify as trans women is it's usually a fetish. Just one that gets very, very good PR.

This is what happens when LGB people try to have a space focused on sexuality by NutterButterFlutter in LGBDropTheT

[–]verytiredverygay 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Of course they do this precisely because TQ+ folx know how valuable it is being able to parasitize the LGB movement and force it to do activism on its behalf and are afraid of losing their power and status as celebrated victims. If you allow people to acknowledge that LGB advocacy and goals are very different from TQ+ advocacy and goals, you lose the ability to claim that they should be lumped together.

It's all very tiring to have something as basic and observable as sexual orientation be lumped in with people who present with a host of personal identity issues and public sexual fetishism.

Who do you feel best articulates your objections to trans ideology? by JulienMayfair in LGBDropTheT

[–]verytiredverygay 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Magdalen Burns. Her videos have always been articulate and to the point, and you can feel her frustration and passion in responding to an attack on what lesbianism is by men who insist they can identify their way into it and demand unquestioning acceptance. Her death was nothing short of an extreme tragedy for the world.

Fred Sargeant writing about Rivera by xandit in LGBDropTheT

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

I was surprised too. I suppose in hindsight it's not that surprising; the Mafia cares about money more than anything else and if taking advantage of vulnerable boys is profitable, it's no worse than the other crimes they're involved in, and the Mafia can keep them at arm's length to protect their image and claim any dealings are simply a matter of business...

Fred Sargeant writing about Rivera by xandit in LGBDropTheT

[–]verytiredverygay 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

All the relatively normal, average people with jobs who worked for Gay Rights . . . we're just not interesting enough.

Sadly happens all the time. Lots of people who do the "boring", behind the scenes work that's most important of all often don't get proper credit compared to the people who do relatively little but are clever at making themselves visible. It's pretty frustrating, and I'm not sure what the solution is.