For the last few days, there has been a significant increase in people posting extreme statements (rants generalizing all women in extreme ways), advocating for violence (against women), and various other things that clearly break our rules.

In the week prior to this starting, we had a couple bannings, and in the last few days we have had ~6-8 per day. Many of them show their true colours after being banned, so it is pretty clear what is going on.

Whether this is a single person with multiple accounts or multiple people, whether it is coordinated or not if it is multiple people - none of these things are clear. There is no need to start jumping to conclusions either. No one should claim we are currently being targeted because we have no evidence that this isn't just a cyclical fluctuation of detractors being idiots all at once.

I am just asking everyone to keep an eye out for such extreme behaviour and report it. We will look into whether it warrants removal/banning. But we can't watch everything, so that is why I am asking for other users to help keep an eye out.