Real Talk: What can we be doing better here?

Honestly? I'm not really sure what we could do to be better. I mean, I see somethings that we should do. Taking from something Maddie said, we really should take away the Anita Sarkeesian thing up there (of course I find it funny that it's the same joke SRS made yet they didn't get anything for that, probably because we're more active). But I've seen two women that I respect greatly mention the same sentiment, so maybe we should get rid of the sub.

I've seen some mention how wonderful it is here, and that it helped them, but does it really? I'll also agree with some people though, that I think a few people blow these problems way out of proportion. I mean, we could become a "celebration" sub, in the sense that we celebrate the various tenets we support (which I'm going to severely disagree with those that think most of us are in this for the "rollercoaster." I mean, who the fuck would ride the GG coaster for amusement other than GGers? Whatever).

'Ghazi has been around for a while, and I think we can change the nature of the subreddit. Personally, that moderation policy we had a while ago that Lifestyled mentioned? I would like that to be put into place, and those that dissent with it will have to just deal, as we are getting a hilarious amount of traffic for such a specific and small sub.

On a more personal note, I am getting annoyed at some things 'Ghazi does. For one, we're a little bit too happy and willing to use ableism. We use crazy and insane far too often. We also have a ridiculous thing with otherkin. I've not seen much of it, but we're too lenient about it.

I also don't feel we should "shut it down" though, and here's my reasoning for that: we have the ability to change. I wouldn't give up fighting racism, sexism, transphobia, misogyny, ableism and those sorts of things just because the mechanism for doing such has flaws. We should take Maddie's criticism to heart, and really think about how to change. We have the ability to, but if it really, earnestly seems like we can't fix this? Yes. We should go.

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