Just an explanation on how we approve accounts

If you registered before March, you don't remember having to get your account approved because it wasn't in place back then.

Since the GZD migration from reddit to lemmygrad, we started asking questions like most places do. Currently, the questions are:

To combat brigrading, we have restricted user registration on this instance. Please write a short description containing:

• Why you would like to join?

• What left tendency would you call yourself? ( Marxist / Marxist-Leninist, etc)

• What communities you would most like to participate in, and

• How or why you chose the username you did.

We use these questions to screen for and discourage spammers and trolls. We will try our best to review your application as soon as possible.

However, lemmygrad is not like most closed spaces. We accept almost anyone. The reason for this is that it's very easy to ban them afterwards if we made a wrong call.

This means you may see people on Lemmygrad that are not entirely ML, or do not agree with you 100%. Many are also new to marxism.

This ensures we fight spam and still allow people to participate -- they might not yet be ML but we'd rather have them here than on reddit, right?

With that said we obviously don't approve liberals, reactionaries, etc. We are just quite lenient on approving accounts.

So please remember when you interact with the community that they are not necessarily at the same level you are at yet, and may need guidance. With that said, mods are allowed to ban people from their communities if they feel the user broke community rules.