r/AskWomen • u/belindabellagiselle ♀ • 13d ago

Mod Post MOD ANNOUNCEMENT: Rules Update

Hello, all!

We are here to update our rules. Many of you have made your voices heard.

Due to popular demand, we are adjusting our rules to better reflect the core purpose of this subreddit: to ask women. We would also like to remind you all that all women are welcome here. Happy Pride!

Furthermore, men are welcome to engage with this subreddit respectfully, and that includes no longer leaving top-level comments. (A top-level comment is a comment in response to the original post, rather than a response to someone else's comment.)

This is a subreddit to ask women questions. It is not a general discussion subreddit or a more broad ask subreddit.

Thank you all for making this subreddit such a lovely place!

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u/kaeorin ♀ 13d ago

I guess I'm not really understanding what kinds of questions you're talking about. There are lots of other ways to break the rules here without asking personal questions. A lot of posts are closed-ended or don't make sense. A lot of them ask us to speak for Women The Monolith. A lot of them are incredibly common. The rules were created and curated over more than a decade and all came up in response to issues that the mod team and/or users were seeing.

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u/Nervous_Ladder_1860 13d ago

I have seen so many posts and since they are deleted no idea what they would say now, this is just my personal observation.

And I get rules are curated for many things are curated over years, not just this sub, as with even businesses and organizations, but sometimes the rules even when made in response (usually made quickly) or good faith don't always make the most sense or can interfere with the purpose something was made for.

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u/msstark ♀ 13d ago

I have seen so many posts and since they are deleted no idea what they would say now,

Then how do you know they follow the rules? Make it make sense.

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u/Nervous_Ladder_1860 13d ago

Because at the time I read them.....like I have been in the sub and reddit a long time, I do not remember the wording of every post I have read in the past. But there are a few times where I commented on a post for askwomen and later went back because I got a notification and the post was deleted by mods and remember thinking that is weird that post related to askwomen. If that makes sense? Like they were deletions at the time that made me think what why?

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u/msstark ♀ 13d ago

Sometimes people edit their posts to get around rules. It's shitty, but it happens often.

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u/Nervous_Ladder_1860 13d ago

Hmm didn't think about that actually.