Please use the poll at the end of this post to vote on how you think the site should handle VPN posting in the future.
If a VPN ban is put in place, we will create exceptions for threads where users in certain countries may be legally at risk for posting in them (e.g. ex-muslim thread, TERF/anti-trans threads). We are also aware that users in some countries can’t access the site due to government censorship (e.g. Russia, China) and we will create a way for those users to contact us and get a workaround for the VPN ban so that they can continue to use the site. Regardless of the outcome, VPN posting may be temporarily banned sitewide during raids.
You should vote from the device and browser that you generally use to post. You must have post history from before the poll was created to be eligible to vote, this is to ensure that the poll cannot be rigged. If you regularly clear your browser storage, or the browser you use does this automatically, it may prevent you from being able to vote by interfering with your posting history.
If you have already voted, submitting again will not count your vote, but you will be able to see an up to date count of the results. You can only submit the form once per minute in order to prevent abuse.
The poll will automatically close in one week on the 18th of March. If there is no clear majority, a runoff poll will begin on the 19th of March. The results of the poll will be implemented when polling finishes.