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MOD POST: Contacting the mods, men in the community, new mods
Ok ladies. We've had some drama cropping up and this is our official response on it all.

Friend's Locking Entries

After discussing it with the mods, it seems none of the active mods made this change. We're not sure how it happened. It's now set so that all posts in wow_ladies will be public by default - if someone wants their posts to be friend's locked, you will have to specify that.

Men in the Community

Seems alot of our members are silently uncomfortable with the idea of men in the community. This is our response to it: We are not going to stop them from joining. For one, just because someone may be male does not mean they always identify with that gender. Two, some men I know have joined because they have girlfriends/wives in the game or want to get them in the game and like seeing the women here post - it helps them identify with their partners and helps them get ideas on how to join. We're sorry if this causes any discomfort, but as long as the men keep their noses clean, we don't feel comfortable kicking them out for no real reason.

OT Posts

While we know that the members here don't just play WoW, this IS a community related to the lady gamers of World of Warcraft. Any posts regarding Starcraft or any other game - be it MMO or not - will be deleted. They belong in a community for that game or in a more general lady gamers community. Let's please try to keep this community on topic.

Contacting the Mods

If you have a concern about the community, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE e-mail us, DO NOT make a post on the community regarding it. We understand an issue alot of people had was that we weren't very timely in our replies to you and we apologize for that. Part of it is that we discuss everything via e-mail so we have to wait for the other replies from the mods and part of it is - while I know it's a huge surprise to some of you - that we're human. We make mistakes and we forget sometimes. We're all trying to be better on the response times to e-mails, you just have to be patient.

Again, please do NOT voice your concerns regarding the community in a post, but rather in an e-mail- it helps cut down on the potential for drama. Our addresses are in the userinfo of the community.

And for those of you who voiced concerns that we were just ignoring the e-mails or the drama - we never ignore e-mails, and if it seems we "ignore" the drama, it's probably because we haven't caught it (again, that dratted RL thing). If you see drama unfolding, please contact us about it and make us aware of the situation (and sometimes, we don't act immediately because we're discussing it between ourselves via e-mail).

New Mods!

After discussion, we've decided that we'd like to add 2-3 new mods for the community. This is what we're looking for in a mod:

1.) They have to be ok with men in the community - we can't assume that they're here to "spy" on us women.
2.) They have to have moderator/leadership experience.
3.) They have to know how to act under pressure - dealing with a flame war/drama can be stressful in some situations (hi) and you need to know how to handle it.
4.) They need to know how to act diplomatically - you can't go around insulting members if a comment/post of theirs needs to have some mod involvement.

If you're interested in being a mod, please e-mail your "resume" and why you want to be a mod to daughterofmedusa@yahoo.com.

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Again, we're sorry for the latest drama and we're sorry to those who have chosen to leave the community either over it or over the idea that we were ignoring/neglecting you. We apologize if you feel that way and we're sorry if you feel it's too little, too late. We can't really go back in time to fix things, though we wish we could. All we can do now is say we're still here and we're sorry for all this.

- pirogoeth,
On behalf of the wow_ladies moderators.