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I'm not sure why you would want to do this. What's better about a site that verifies that all members are women? Protection from invading anti-feminists? Safe s

by neilk 18y ago

I'm not sure why you would want to do this. What's better about a site that verifies that all members are women? Protection from invading anti-feminists? Safe space, like an online women's center? A good strategy might be to make the site invite-only, and distribute invite codes to early members stressing that it is supposed to only be for women. That might actually generate a sort of buzz, if you forbid it to men.

stcredzero 18y ago
Making the site invite-only is a good strategy. But it will not do enough to prevent men from getting registered. There would have to be another mechanism. The purpose would be to have a social news site that's oriented towards women, but which does not accomplish this by actively encouraging "girly" content. I want the notion of "what's interesting to women" to be emergent, not socially engineered by the site's designers. Also, I suspect that this will make the site safer as well. The mechanism does not have to be foolproof. The ability to flag abusive users and other moderation mechanisms will still be needed to weed out the "leaks" and female users who also happen to be abusive.