Women mods

About a month and a half ago /u/ArchimedesPPL made the "[Changes to Moderation team](https://www.reddit.com/r/mormon/comments/iup0hp/changes_to_moderation_team/)" post, where the mods said that we would like to add 3-5 new moderators. We have added /u/FrogOnTrombone and /u/Rabannah as moderators, and still have an open invitation for people to apply.

The mod team wants to see this community to be a place for every type of Mormon. Its not perfect, but as far as I know there isn't another community that is attempting that goal at this scale (barring possibly Sunstone). In order to build a community that every type of Mormon has a place, we purposefully build our mod team to be as diverse as possible. Having a greater diversity represented on the mod team makes it so that some of us see blindspots that other perspectives wouldn't otherwise see. In terms of belief, we have LDS folks, unorthodox folks, exmos, and PIMOs. We have straight and LGBT folks. We have folks who live in the Jello Belt and those that live elsewhere. However, we recognize that we are an all male mod team, and this lack of diversity gives us a blindspot. To fix this blindspot, several months ago we reached out to a couple women who we thought would be great additions to the mod team, but life situations weren't right for any of them at the moment. We understand that life is busy, and many don't want to take on an additional resposnsibility. Life is busy for our volunteer mod team as well. I personally have been moving roommates in and doing temp jobs here and there. Others have children that started school. Others have careers that are still in flux because of the pandemic. Adding folks to the mod team has kind of fallen by the wayside in favor of our busy lives. We have a mod thats dealing with a wildfire right now. Life is busy.

This past week we had guy that was horrifically misoginistic, but used very "flowery" language. Our mod team is all male and didn't see the forest through the trees in this instance. When /u/ihearttoskate brought to our attention just how problematic this post was we locked and removed the thread and banned the misoginist. The misoginist appealed our ban decision with a long, rambling misonginistic rant, and he was denied an appeal. Bigotry has no place in /r/Mormon, and we are deeply sorry for any anguish this thread caused. I would also like to specifically apologize to /u/justshyof15, /u/lohonomo, /u/tokenlinguist, /u/Starfoxy, and /u/justaverage for how they were treated in that thread. For a proper apology we recognize that we need to get our asses into gear and fix this blindspot that we have so this doesn't happen again. We need women on our mod team!

If you are a woman who is active on our sub and passionate about creating a big-tent Mormon community, consider joining the /r/Mormon mod team by [sending us a message!](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose/?to=/r/Mormon&subject=Woman%20Mod%20Application&message=Hello!%20I%20am%20interested%20in%20becoming%20a%20mod!)

Keep on Mormoning!