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Feministing’s Commenting Policy & Community Standards

Over the years, Feministing’s commenting policy and the way we moderate comments and posts has changed – in fact, when we first launched the site over six years ago there was no moderation at all. (As you can probably imagine, this ceased to be amusing after our traffic hit a certain point.) We’ve constantly tried new models to see what works best for our readers – we’ve had light moderation, heavy moderation and everything in between. We’ve rewritten our commenting policy a million times over.

But as time went on and our traffic continued to grow, we realized that moderation and the way we handle our community was not meant to be a part-time endeavor split between already-overworked bloggers. So most ...

By Anna • 14 years ago

Word! Comments of the Week: “I don’t really care what people say, I don’t really watch what dem waan do.”

These are my favorite comments of the week, eliciting the profound monosyllabic response of “Word!”
This week features dot@hampshire, Ami, kely-doc, bella08 & s mandisa:
“I also wanted to share something that happened in the Q&A section I really liked. Bianca was asked, “How do you go about claiming your identity/identities when you have been so discriminated against by feminist?” She answered, “To quote Sean Paul, ‘I don’t really care what people say, I don’t really watch what dem waan do'” -dot@hampshire on “CLPP 2010 Feminine-tastic”
“I don’t want to sound like the “that’s cool but you know what would have been better” police, but here I go. That’s awesome. I commend her for doing this. However, I still ...

By Anna • 14 years ago

Favorite Comments of the Week: “Sometimes I like to eat waffles and sometimes spaghetti.”

Since I’ve been inducted as Community Moderator here at Feministing,
one of the perks of the job is reading so many poignant
and thought-provoking comments that add vital elements to the
discussion on post threads. And as I begin to delve deeper into the
commenting community, I thought it would be great to highlight these
comments in a series — not only to give some of readers props where
it’s due, but to showcase them as a reminder of how vital you all are to
the Feministing community.

So this is the official kick-off post of our Comments of the Week
series where I’ll be highlighting some of
my favorite comments. I want to bring these comments
(and comments ...

By Anna • 14 years ago

Comment Moderation

Hi folks! Community Moderator here. Just a note about comments– we’re currently on our Feministing retreat here in NY so comments may take a while to show up. It’ll be like this till about Tuesday when I go back to Cali. Sorry about this, thanks for your patience!