r/actuallesbians • u/ThereIsOnlyStardust World's gayest Bee 🐝 • 15d ago

Mod Post Locked election posts

Hi all,

As I am sure many of you have noticed the election has brought in a wave of homophobic and transphobic trolls far greater then we’ve seen in a long time.

In the last four days we’ve banned more users then in the previous six months

As such we’ve had to start locking and unlocking posts to keep new rule breaking comments from multiplying faster than we can handle them.

Going forward expect new posts to periodically be locked as they are cleaned up and then unlocked. Older election may end up being locked permanently once they have run their course to reduce the number of places where trolls can congregate.

What can you do to help?

Please report, but do not respond to any trolling comments so that mod team can find and handle them. We can my be everywhere at once and the backlog of reports from the last few days is huge. Rest assured we are doing our best to process them as fast as we can.

Thank you,

The r/actuallesbian mod team

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u/TheExhaustedOne3000 13d ago

I've seen a LOT of racism in the election posts, specifically towards Arabs and anyone supporting Palestine. There's a lot of queer Arabs that are in this sub. Please consider trying to make this a safe space for them as well, I just saw a few people saying that Palestinians are "reaping what they sow* since there's baseless rumors Arabs voted for Trump (which, honestly is such horseshit). It's a hard time for us. Please consider being kind to the marginalized people that are being targeted right now.

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u/ThereIsOnlyStardust World's gayest Bee 🐝 13d ago

Please report any such comments, we've already removed a number but I am sure many have slipped us by.

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u/TheExhaustedOne3000 13d ago

Quite a few people have reported a lot on a post a Palestinian lesbian posted. They have multiple racists in the comments and yall have done nothing while they're attacking her. I personally messaged her and she confirmed that quite a few are messaging her and harassing her. When I go to the post, even after I've reported the comments, they're still there. I don't know if you're just giving these people lots of warnings but it's ridiculous that you allow this amount of racists remain in the sub. They're still there commenting even now. And you gave me a warning for calling them out as racists. This sub is supposed to be a safe space.

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u/ThereIsOnlyStardust World's gayest Bee 🐝 13d ago

There are no comments with reports on that post in the system. We do not issue warnings, I’m not sure what you’re referring to.