Feminists

It's not aimed at you specifically, Squinch, and I'd welcome hearing the opinions of other female DUers. You said:

My question is what changes (and I mean specifics, not merely 'I want an end to misogyny') need to be made at DU? I'm not looking for names of DUers as examples, but more things like 'if someone were to turn up in a thread and say something like:.....'

Maybe my opinion as a woman, a feminist, and a DUer since 2002 doesn't count, but Skinner and EarlG are no more misogynists than they're anti-semites or Islamophobes, and I mention those two forms of bigotry because I've been aware in the past some DUers have accused them of being those things. I've been on MIRT many times since DU3 started, and they've nuked misogynists along with other bigots that make an appearance at DU. The MIRT team's been nuking a repeat offender who zeroes in on feminists pretty regularly this term. Do you think admins who are misogynists would let misogynists be nuked or nuke them themselves?

In the case of what happened over at Discussionist, four separate juries voted unamimously to hide those posts. Then before either admin arrived, the troll had created a sock-puppet, which was an instant nuke. I've seen accusations thrown at them that if not for the sock, the troll would have merely had to sit out a time-out, which Skinner corrected when he posted over at Disccussionist about it.



Also, EarlG was *not* blaming the DUer he replied to for what the troll posted. He was correctly pointing out to her saying: ' I would like to see misogyny taken seriously by the admins here at a DU, and make this a place where women can post without this crap.' that she'd brought 'this crap' to DU and it hadn't been here before that...

The thing is that 'this crap' wasn't posted at DU. It was posted on another site, and it was brought to DU by the person who was demanding EarlG make DU 'a place where woman can post without this crap.' Which is what he pointed out when he said: 'But the only reason this crap is here is because you posted it here. It wasn't here until you did that, was it?'

Try signing up for MIRT next term, Squinch. It gives an insight into how DU works when it comes to dealing with trolls and disruptors and as it did with me when I first joined MIRT, you get to see firsthand that the admin aren't sitting on their hands and letting bigots rampage through DU. They catch up to them sooner or later