How do you get banned from a group without ever subscribing to

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318. I suspect that if I ever tried to be a host, I would quickly go mad given the stuff they have to

deal with. I don't know the history of the banned feminists, so I can't comment on that.

But what I have found interesting in this thread is how perfectly it illustrates the knee-jerk vilifying of some groups by a handful of people. It happened with the RP hide, (with pretty much the same handful of people) when immediately there were nasty comments made about HoF, but it appears that HoF members had absolutely nothing to do with it. I was just involved in a conversation with someone who identifies as a feminist but who never came into HoF because she had the impression that she had a bad experience in there. This is understandable given the way people talk about HoF, but she herself realized during the conversation that it wasn't HoF.

I don't have a problem with the idea of groups having long lists of blocked DUers. This E&E block shows why it's necessary: an environmental group could spend all its time playing whack-a-mole with climate deniers, or they could actually have conversations about how to improve things. The BOG could spend all its time dealing with people who hate Obama, but they were formed specifically as a group who support him. And in HoF, I am sure you have seen as I have all the people who come in with an obvious agenda to school the women and put them in their place. They waste our time and brain space.