Our demands

  1. Return the site’s moderation practice to it’s former, libs-banned-on-site glory. Move forward to a new, glorious form of banning theory inspired by TC69 thought, while learning from it’s mistakes, and listening to neurodivergent comrades
  2. Reinvigorate the heart of this site’s community, c/furry
  3. Remove r*ddit karma
  • Finger [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    the attitude of “ban anything that even remotely sniffs of liberalism” did lead to an incident where TC69 banned a user for a small misunderstanding, then doubled down and re-banned the user with no explaination after the other admins unbanned them, and then basically the entire c/neurodiverse mod team quit the site because or that.

    hugely problematic behavior from a site admin. an unapologetic “everyone with a bad take or who ever upsets a frequent user deserves to be banned” is lazy moderating and hurts ND people

    edit: fuck i posted from the bit account by accident

    • Egon [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      Yeah I never really liked TC69s style. She was big on assuming the worst when people disagreed with her, then digging her heels in and using her clout to foment a dogpile. I think it was good all the transphobes got banned, but she kind of just banned whoever she wanted and then said they were transphobic or whatever.
      She also made two huge “I’m leaving you’re all transphobes” posts as far as I can recall.
      It was around the same time a lot of people got banned for reacting negatively to how r/vcj got onboarded. Nowadays the story was a bunch of sweet old vegans just got harassed as soon as they showed up. Guess I never got called a

      cw: sa

      rapist

      for drinking milk. Disagreeing with this onboarding in any way was likely to get you banned too.

    • Infamousblt [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      I was going to be part of that mod team and didn’t, and then disappeared, because of that incident. So yeah. Unfortunately very aware

    • WithoutFurtherDelay [they/them]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Oh, that’s what happened. Holy shit, I’ve been confused about what happened to the mod team for literally years. Were some of the c/furry mods part of that exodus? I remember some of them leaving

      No: more half measures Walter

      • BadTakesHaver [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        Some of them were definitely on the c/furry mod team. Reason that mod team kinda just dissapeared without saying anything is because the incident was about “im leaving” callout posts, which led to the ban of “im leaving” posts in general, and the modteam (if i can recall) was too alienated and sad to really fight anymore about it. Hoping for a revival of that comm soon

            • WithoutFurtherDelay [they/them]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
              2·
              2 years ago

              This is my point, though. “Shit stirring” isn’t an issue unless issues haven’t actually been fully resolved (or it’s someone repeating something blatantly offensive on purpose). If something has been generally processed and come to a conclusion as a community, someone trying to bring it back up again would just be rightfully dismissed. I feel like it’s a red flag when a community has to crack down on discussions about itself. It has the same vibe as people refusing to communicate in a relationship because they don’t want to cause issues.

              Plus the stated reason, that being that nobody cares if you leave, is just flat out wrong. People get attached to individual users and while it isn’t the healthiest it’s weird to try and ignore that instead of addressing it directly