As a lot of you noticed, the mods voluntarily set the FDS sub to private for a few hours today.

We've experienced a HUGE amount growth and increased activity in these last few weeks! I want to say thank you to all of you lovely ladies who have made this sub an absolute joy to be a part of!! The mod team spent a few hours convening this afternoon about how to continue managing our sub as we continue to rapidly expand. We came up with a few new changes to improve efficiency while maintaining everyone's favorite pro-woman space...

We had probably about 1,500 messages in the Modmail to get through in the last few hours and another 10,000 flair requests.

First - While this had been the unofficial process for a while now, we will officially no longer automatically assign flair to new users after 48 hours. We will no longer assign flair by request, either. All automatic notifications telling users to message the mods asking for flair should now be removed. We were getting hundreds of requests for flair every day and it was too much to keep up with, even with all the extra hands. You do not need to have flair before you can post here. This has always been the case. The only difference between a flaired and unflaired user is that an unflaired one has their comments/posts reviewed before anyone on the sub is able to see them. Moving forward, all FDS participants without flair will have to have a history of high-quality contributions in order to receive flair. You may still receive messages saying your comment/post was removed when you try to post. This is fine. Someone will manually approve your comments and, once appropriate, assign you flair. Please be patient with us.

Please do not message the mod team asking for flair, you will not receive a response.

Second, we've added about half a dozen new mods to the team! They'll be helping us stay on the lookout for quality comments and posts from unflaired users and making sure your comments and posts get approved more efficiently. They're all long-time FDS users you know and love, so make sure to welcome them to the team!

We did a ton of other stuff on the technical side as well, but that's all pretty boring and shouldn't affect your experience here.