Erm, without speaking for anything that happened a year or two ago, I think it's pretty evident that we've had trouble coming up with a good way to address sub-community stuff in general.
We've had trouble with ethnic minority threads before. We've had trouble with subcommunities in gaming. We've had trouble trying to migrate frequently bumped subcommunity threads into Community to help clear things up. We've had trouble having even levels of moderation in subcommunities that mods aren't members of. Obviously it's tricky. We try our best.
I don't know which mod locked the previous thread or exactly why, but the sentiment being spoken to is that we don't really want to take discussion
away from more specific threads and dumping it into subcommunity armored compounds. No one should feel like they can't make a thread on a certain subject. It's like the megathread versus new threads for new news thing in the gaming side. Like, it's a bad thing when someone thinks of themselves as a part of [X]-GAF instead of GAF as a whole, right? That's the basic struggle with this kind of thing.
I'm not locking this thread because as best as I can tell it's in a good spirit and doesn't pose any trouble. I haven't talked to any other mods since this thread started. Some other mods might disagree with me now or at some later point depending on how the thread goes. If the thread does eventually end, it won't be because of a boy's club or trying to tread on anyone's toes, it'll be because we couldn't figure out a good way to deal with it properly.
I'd appreciate it if the thread tried to avoid meta-GAF conversation about previous girl threads, do girl threads work, would a girl thread work on GAF, what do mods think of this, mods that, catcalling other threads or posters, or anything else like that, and if there's any reaction to this specific post I'd appreciate it if it was made to the support email or to any mod in PM rather than being an in-thread reply.
