How to recruit more feminists women around the world here to Clovenhooves and making this site more active ❤

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Discussion How to recruit more feminists women around the world here to Clovenhooves and making this site more active ❤

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dobby

Sep 28 2025, 4:59 PM

Hi everyone! I'm a bit newer here to Clovenhooves and am trying to get a hang of the forum format again over the reddit-style format that I've gotten used to, but I would really love to try to start more regular feminist discussions here to help make this site more active so that it can be a beneficial resource for feminist women around the world to connect and collaborate and support each other! And I also wanted to help spread the word about Clovenhooves as a site to more radical feminist women online!

So I just wanted to start a discussion thread about this, to see if others here are also wanting to help revive activity here on Clovenhooves!? And for us to maybe brainstorm ideas together on how to spread the word about Clovenhooves! I'm so grateful that this site exists and I want to start making better use of this space that the Clovenhooves admin has kindly provided for us, by helping other likeminded radical-feminist-aligned women learn about and join this site and starting more relevant feminist discussions here! ❤

dobby

Sep 28 2025, 4:59 PM #1

Elsacat

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Sep 29 2025, 6:07 PM

inviting women from other radfem spaces is probably the best way to get more women in and spread the word. And hopefully increase activity.

Maybe also contributing to other sites and publications and mentioning Clovenhooves if allowed. I'm picturing something like an essay posted here that also gets published on another site with a credit something like "originally posted on clovenhooves.org" with a link back. Easy to say that, but scraping up the time to do it is another story.

Elsacat

Sep 29 2025, 6:07 PM #2

eyeswideopen

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Sep 30 2025, 1:47 PM

There was a post made a few months back asking about whether it qould be possible to add reactions/upvotes, and if possible, I think it would be a good idea. I usually don't have much commentary to make on a post here, but I do appreciate each one. Adding the ability to upvote would let people know how their contributions to the forum are landing and I think would encourage more activity here.

eyeswideopen

Sep 30 2025, 1:47 PM #3

dobby

Sep 30 2025, 5:10 PM

(Sep 29 2025, 6:07 PM)Elsacat inviting women from other radfem spaces is probably the best way to get more women in and spread the word. And hopefully increase activity.

Maybe also contributing to other sites and publications and mentioning Clovenhooves if allowed. I'm picturing something like an essay posted here that also gets published on another site with a credit something like "originally posted on clovenhooves.org" with a link back. Easy to say that, but scraping up the time to do it is another story.

This is a really good idea! I have been wanting to do that, but tbh I'm not really sure how to write good essays myself haha. So I've been wanting to learn how to one of these days. I'm not really sure where to start with learning how to be a good essay writer though.

I'm willing to try to share other people's essays from here to other feminist spaces though! Are there previous Clovenhooves threads with essays that anyone here is okay with me or others linking elsewhere or something? Maybe we can gather a list of thread links so that way it could be easier to crosspost them one at a time to other places!

dobby

Sep 30 2025, 5:10 PM #4

(Sep 29 2025, 6:07 PM)Elsacat inviting women from other radfem spaces is probably the best way to get more women in and spread the word. And hopefully increase activity.

Maybe also contributing to other sites and publications and mentioning Clovenhooves if allowed. I'm picturing something like an essay posted here that also gets published on another site with a credit something like "originally posted on clovenhooves.org" with a link back. Easy to say that, but scraping up the time to do it is another story.

dobby

Sep 30 2025, 5:11 PM

(Sep 30 2025, 1:47 PM)eyeswideopen There was a post made a few months back asking about whether it qould be possible to add reactions/upvotes, and if possible, I think it would be a good idea. I usually don't have much commentary to make on a post here, but I do appreciate each one. Adding the ability to upvote would let people know how their contributions to the forum are landing and I think would encourage more activity here.

I love the idea of adding an upvote button too!

dobby

Sep 30 2025, 5:11 PM #5

(Sep 30 2025, 1:47 PM)eyeswideopen There was a post made a few months back asking about whether it qould be possible to add reactions/upvotes, and if possible, I think it would be a good idea. I usually don't have much commentary to make on a post here, but I do appreciate each one. Adding the ability to upvote would let people know how their contributions to the forum are landing and I think would encourage more activity here.

I love the idea of adding an upvote button too!

Clover
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Sep 30 2025, 6:21 PM

Thanks dobby, it's great to see you here. :catblush:

Elsacat's suggestion of cross-posting clovenhooves threads to other sites, like Reddit or Vexxed or Tumblr, is a good idea. But yeah, it requires members to have the time and energy to write up posts to cross-post. I have a clovenhooves-dot-com.tumblr.com account that I used to cross-post on and share updates with, but I got busy lol. Maybe I can pick that up again in the future.

Re: upvotes/reactions. We're definitely planning on adding reactions, and I hope we can get it done in the near future, like next several months maybe. The plugin is pretty close to done, we just need to do some additional testing and get it set up with some starter emojis. Feel free to suggest reaction emojis here! I, too, wish to be able to react on posts lol. 😭 Often times I want to show my support/acknowledgement of a post, but I have nothing useful to type lol.

I've been thinking of making clovenhooves.org stickers, like I used to make ovarit.com and kindrad.org stickers. One idea I had was putting the stickers (not sticky, with the paper backing still on) in feminist books at bookstores and libraries, so then women could see them and then have a free sticker they can stick wherever they want. Or to avoid any potential sticker residue in books, I could make clovenhooves.org bookmarks and hide them in the books?! 👀

We've received shout-outs on Radleft Unity Discord and Medusa Rising's Twitter, and a member kindly shared clovenhooves on r/fourthwavewomen and that gave us a big boost in registered users. :) So sharing that the site exists through word-of-mouth does help too.

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Clover

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Sep 30 2025, 6:21 PM #6

Thanks dobby, it's great to see you here. :catblush:

Elsacat's suggestion of cross-posting clovenhooves threads to other sites, like Reddit or Vexxed or Tumblr, is a good idea. But yeah, it requires members to have the time and energy to write up posts to cross-post. I have a clovenhooves-dot-com.tumblr.com account that I used to cross-post on and share updates with, but I got busy lol. Maybe I can pick that up again in the future.

Re: upvotes/reactions. We're definitely planning on adding reactions, and I hope we can get it done in the near future, like next several months maybe. The plugin is pretty close to done, we just need to do some additional testing and get it set up with some starter emojis. Feel free to suggest reaction emojis here! I, too, wish to be able to react on posts lol. 😭 Often times I want to show my support/acknowledgement of a post, but I have nothing useful to type lol.

I've been thinking of making clovenhooves.org stickers, like I used to make ovarit.com and kindrad.org stickers. One idea I had was putting the stickers (not sticky, with the paper backing still on) in feminist books at bookstores and libraries, so then women could see them and then have a free sticker they can stick wherever they want. Or to avoid any potential sticker residue in books, I could make clovenhooves.org bookmarks and hide them in the books?! 👀

We've received shout-outs on Radleft Unity Discord and Medusa Rising's Twitter, and a member kindly shared clovenhooves on r/fourthwavewomen and that gave us a big boost in registered users. :) So sharing that the site exists through word-of-mouth does help too.

Kozlik's regular member account. 🍀🐐

Elsacat

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Sep 30 2025, 6:38 PM

I love the bookmarks idea. Easy to leave them around where people can find them, like in waiting rooms with magazines. Or in libraries and bookstores. Tack 'em up on community bulletin boards in places that still have those.

Elsacat

Sep 30 2025, 6:38 PM #7

Impress Polly
The kind they warned you about.

Sep 30 2025, 6:46 PM

I found this place through a post about it on r/fourthwavewomen myself, so I know from direct experience that that can get results! I'm also definitely in favor of adding an up-vote button. I second what Eyes Wide Open said about that; about not always really having much to add to certain threads, but often would like to signal my appreciation for them in some way nonetheless. And I know that getting up-voted makes me feel more appreciated and more motivated to keep posting.

When it comes to emojis...and I love emojis(!)...the ones I use the most in the various places that I hang around are reliably the toothy grin, wink, and rock on ones, and anything that indicates I'm being silly, so those are musts. These two are my favorites out of the ones we currently have: :meowknife:

They just make me laugh.

Edited Sep 30 2025, 7:39 PM by Impress Polly.

Impress Polly

The kind they warned you about.

Sep 30 2025, 6:46 PM #8

Impress Polly
The kind they warned you about.

Sep 30 2025, 7:21 PM

(Sep 30 2025, 5:10 PM)dobby
(Sep 29 2025, 6:07 PM)Elsacat inviting women from other radfem spaces is probably the best way to get more women in and spread the word. And hopefully increase activity.

Maybe also contributing to other sites and publications and mentioning Clovenhooves if allowed. I'm picturing something like an essay posted here that also gets published on another site with a credit something like "originally posted on clovenhooves.org" with a link back. Easy to say that, but scraping up the time to do it is another story.

This is a really good idea! I have been wanting to do that, but tbh I'm not really sure how to write good essays myself haha. So I've been wanting to learn how to one of these days. I'm not really sure where to start with learning how to be a good essay writer though.

Not to brag (okay, actually to brag), but though I am no pro, I have often been told in the course of my online life that I'm a good writer. My only tips though really are just to be authentic and human, include lots of links (people are impressed by those), include a joke here and there for additional personality, and perhaps most importantly, also include some kind of unique or uncommon knowledge or intuition; something one can't just find anywhere they might go that gives your commentary unique value. It helps if you're not a dogmatist. And of course have your thoughts organized by topic and subtopic, which is the biggest pain in the whole process really, but essential to readability.

(On the subject of links, hell, you could just link to a bunch of dead sites or blank pages or to "google.com" and most people would never even notice because few ever actually click on any links they see, but will still think your post was smart if they see a bunch of links and up-vote it. Not that I've ever tried that before for amusement or anything...)

Quote:I'm willing to try to share other people's essays from here to other feminist spaces though! Are there previous Clovenhooves threads with essays that anyone here is okay with me or others linking elsewhere or something? Maybe we can gather a list of thread links so that way it could be easier to crosspost them one at a time to other places!

FINALLY, another excuse to link to my brief little 47-paragraph essay on what I see as the recently-concluded feminist fourth wave here in the United States where I live that I wrote here over the course of the early summer for fun to absolutely no response whatsoever! :annoyed:

It's almost like 9,924 words was too much for others to read or something, who would've thought? The conclusion of it probably could've been stronger, but I got tired of writing it by the time I got that far and decided to hurry it along a bit. Still, I'm proud of that commentary as a whole and certainly wouldn't mind it being shared elsewhere. Be forewarned though, I am, after all, the kind they warned you about, so, y'know, recognize that anything by me that you share elsewhere probably runs you the risk of getting banned from wherever you share it, so be smart about that, ha ha!

Edited Sep 30 2025, 7:37 PM by Impress Polly.

Impress Polly

The kind they warned you about.

Sep 30 2025, 7:21 PM #9

(Sep 30 2025, 5:10 PM)dobby
(Sep 29 2025, 6:07 PM)Elsacat inviting women from other radfem spaces is probably the best way to get more women in and spread the word. And hopefully increase activity.

Maybe also contributing to other sites and publications and mentioning Clovenhooves if allowed. I'm picturing something like an essay posted here that also gets published on another site with a credit something like "originally posted on clovenhooves.org" with a link back. Easy to say that, but scraping up the time to do it is another story.

This is a really good idea! I have been wanting to do that, but tbh I'm not really sure how to write good essays myself haha. So I've been wanting to learn how to one of these days. I'm not really sure where to start with learning how to be a good essay writer though.

Quote:I'm willing to try to share other people's essays from here to other feminist spaces though! Are there previous Clovenhooves threads with essays that anyone here is okay with me or others linking elsewhere or something? Maybe we can gather a list of thread links so that way it could be easier to crosspost them one at a time to other places!

hatpin

Oct 1 2025, 12:04 PM

#10

Your 47 paragraph essay was excellent, I read it last night- I missed its original posting. I can't be more expansive until I've re-read it, but I will do so on its thread.

(I would have given you whatever signal of appreciate was available. Be it "rock on sister", or "check out the big brain on Impress Polly", or just a thumbs up/like/smile)

Edited Oct 1 2025, 12:05 PM by hatpin.

hatpin

Oct 1 2025, 12:04 PM #10

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