Member composition- Increased number of straights on afterellen

I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this, but i feel this is an important issue to raise. I believe a number of people, at least from the comments i've read on the "Straight men and the afterellen.com hot 100 list" feel importantly about this as well. As great as the AE hot 100 was it has subjected us to some unwanted exposure, and a number of straights,guys in particular, seem to have registered. This would undoubtedly influence any future top100 lists that we come up with  and i am seriously concerned about this.

It's bad enough having straight people commenting on our community and treating us as some sort of exotic species in real life, but it feels much worse to have it happen here on afterellen. I think as members of afterellen we need to come up with ideas on how to combat the increase in membership of straight people on this site. If there's one place I want to feel in control and not powerless, it's this site. But with the sudden increase in straight people here, I'm afraid this site in time will lose authenticity and diminish in value to its lesbian and bi members. It is for these reasons I suggest that both  members and moderators take the following ideas into consideration.

 - Eiher we have a democratic poll on how to handle this sensitive issue. The options would be to ban the registering of straights, have a certain quota to accomadate them or to have some sort of trial period to view their behavior.

-Or alternatively we could screen out straight members who we don't believe would make a valuable contribution to this site. Many women oriented sites do have forum guidelines which allow them to choose selectively. I don't see why afterellen should not follow that.

These are just some suggestions i'm posting in response to comments made over at the blog, and I know many members will be in support of such changes. But  I'm interested to know what others think and if they have any other innovative ideas.

Rita