Does “93% of men would not send harassing messages if they had agreed to a pledge” mean that ~“7% of men openly intend to continue sending harassing messages despite the pledge”? And this counts as “working tirelessly to be female-friendly.”
It seems hard to imagine that OKC hasn’t already dealt with dick-pics, and that you need a pledge instead of an algorithm solidly removing the problem. It seems like these sites are still gamed in favor of obnoxiousness, putting almost all the options in the hands of people skirting the edge of harassment on what should be a fun site for everyone.
It would be interesting* for OKC to have a “not banned but often found annoying” category: if people lead with harassing insults ban them, but for insults below whatever threshold you count as harassment, or cut-and-paste emails, let people (presumably mostly women) put up something more like a spam-filter in their own preferences. Make your emails more like gmail, where the recipient has some control to set what they want to see.
* If OKC doesn’t do it, and you want to see this happen, write your ideas, maybe we can map out or even start up something at a hackathon?
