As written in the description of what Ron wanted this board to be when he first created it:
"Some male members of Getbig have been known to purposely offend women on this site which has resulted in very few women posting here and has discouraged others from joining.
In an effort to make current female members of Getbig feel comfortable and to encourage other females to register and participate, males must be approved by the moderators in order to be able to post on this particular board."
When this particular board was first started, Ron wanted NO males posting here. Initially, we had to delete them all. After talking to him about it, he agreed that if they could participate without causing problems they should be allowed to post here. That is where the "agreement to the rules" element came from.
This board was very busy and fun for years. Even people that had feuds on the other boards would normally be civil to one another here. And if they weren't, they would be edited or deleted (and warned if necessary). This went both ways; for males and for females.
Very noble to have a safe place for women!
Keeping all men out is indeed not an option. Approving some males is
better, but not the
best solution. It is also unclear on what grounds a male would be approved or not (or maybe I did not read the rules carefully enough?).
Maybe a moderator should not look at
who posted but
what he or she posted and apply rules for editing or removing the post on that, instead of deleting all post from unapproved males indifferent of their content. Yes, that would call for heavy moderating.
More men posting here seriously could make a discussion more lively and therefore attract more women to join.
When threats and outings became more of the norm, less people post on the whole of getbig and of course this affects this board as well. I'm not going to post details here regarding the threats and who they came from, but it is important to know that if you reveal information about yourself, and then someone gets butthurt by you or decides they don't like you, they may "internet stalk" you and will possibly find out your information. What they do with it then depends on that person.
Restricting a man from posting here will not restrict him from reading here and post ownings on a different part of GB!
For now the rules will remain unless Ron wants them gone. It shouldn't be that painful to agree to be civil to each other on here.
If these guidelines are too harsh for you and you want to make your own board, but stay in the female section, start posting on the Fitness/Figure area.[/color]
OK, but...
You could take this point up on your next consultation. And if GB is a democracy, you could do a survey amongst female GB'ers to see what they want.
I hardly visit the other womens boards. Theres not much discussion there, seems to me only a collage of pictures. Not very inviting.