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Polyamory (n): the philosophy or state of being in love or romantically involved with more than one person at the same time.
At 18,000 members, Polyamory is the largest group on Facebook revolving around the subject of polyamory, free love, and open relationships. Discussions there range from relationship tips to fun meetups. This is despite the fact that the group is closed and is ruled with an iron fist by members who have never been in an open relationship, or are even in any relationships at all.
The Farms tends to throw around Social Justice as a catch all for people they don't like, but in this scenario it truly fits. A group dedicated to sexuality has such draconian and arbitrary rules for a designated safe space that even "liking" a post one of the mod team finds offensive will net you a ban. Weekly at least one public post is made decrying the oppressive nature of the moderators who, in return, ban the user, delete the post, and copy/paste it as an announcement for others to shun and harass them.
A quick breakdown of their rules:
- Keep posts on topic or be banned
- Cruising for hookups will get you banned
- Dan Savage is banned
- Add trigger warnings when asked or be banned
- Telling people trigger warnings are dumb will get you a ban
- Don't tell people you're leaving or you'll be banned
- Don't delete anything you post if someone else replied to it
- No seriously don't try to hook up with people or bann
- Polyamory has "no definition", defining it gets you banned
- But "critical analysis" of our own idea of it is encouraged
- Something about face shots only being allowed in some threads
- Don't randomly talk to or friend other people or you will get banned
- Don't "stalk" others or you will get banned
- Don't take screenshots of this group because cheaters have rights
- Any post that doesn't meet "accessibility guidelines" will be edited or removed
- All images HAVE to have a written description
- All videos and audio HAVE to have a transcription
- Misgendering people results in a ban
- Pet names, and gender-based honorifics, result in bans too
- Never just call someone a first name. It's full name only, or threat of ban
- Don't use "poly" or "polya" because it may offend polynesians [archive]
- Report any post that upsets you so moderators can swiftly ban the offending person
- You will also get banned for...
- persistent unexamined privlege
- exclusion of women
- exclusion of transgenders
- exclusion of sex workers
- exclusion of anyone not white
- Grammar policing [archive]
- Ableism
- Fun
So sit tight, grab a drink, and check out a bunch of these stupid fucking rules.
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