A small group of people were offended by a joke that unintentionally came across transphobic, and as a result this persons account was blacklisted. Even after getting the account reinstated, there were lasting complications with the state of the account (these probably technical issues) and the account was basically lost for good.
The 9th paragraph is where the incident is discussed.
What do yall think of this?
I’ve definitely been misunderstood myself, and it kinda sucks to think that my account could be lost for good due to a few reports, hasty banning, and some bug in the software.
The fediverse is notorious for overmoderation and mobbing. A lot of ppl have come here looking for a safer space and as a result they are incredibly (over?)zealous about protecting it.
Sidenote: I incredibly disagree with the author’s conclusion that calckey should be avoided because of their experience. On mastodon, they likely would not have had their account reactivated because the majority of those overzealous ppl are on mastodon
Agree that it’s not much of a reason to avoid a piece of software. If anything an instance.
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The issue was the use of a specific word, that is now uncouth, but with which OP identifies. They claim to not know the word had fallen out of favor. Other than the word itself, I don’t think there was anything wrong with the comment they left.
It’s a slur, not only a term that “has fallen out of favour”
OP was rightfully moderated. Their comment was transphobic.
I’m coming around to agreeing with you. But I feel like if I try to clarify and really understand I may end up offending someone. It’s hard to have these kinds of conversations online, with people who don’t know you or your intent.
I may be an imperfect ally, but I’m honestly trying.
But I feel like if I try to clarify and really understand I may end up offending someone
Who would you be offending by admitting you were wrong in thinking OP was wrongly moderated?
OP knew what they were doing. They got rightfully suspended for transphobia and now they are crying about overzealous moderation and censorship, like all the bigots do.
Not only did they used an slur, but OP’s “joke” is based around a transmisogynistic stereotype.
Next time you want to post about someone being “wrongly moderated”, ask people from the community affected if they feel the comment was truly offensive or not, and if it deserves any kind of moderation.
For what it’s worth I appreciate you trying and trying to understand!
If they have been on social media during the last 10 years it would be pretty much impossible for them to not know that removed is now considered a slur when referring to a trans person. Maybe an old fart who just watches cable TV could be unaware, but the odds of being on social media and not being aware is pretty much zero.
I also thought maybe it was a misunderstanding, but really it has been long enough for people who are online regularly and have a blog.
I mean, it was never “in favor”; as far as I know, it had always been a slur
I can’t see how OP was “failed by moderation”; I assume the instance they were on had a zero tolerance policy for such language, and honestly someone with a blog on the internet that had a twitter account probably should have known that that word was a slur and still is
maybe they’ll realize why they got banned and figure out that “jokes” like that aren’t tolerable, but with how they reacted here I don’t know
Yeah it’s important to know the difference between a trans person calling themselves that and someone randomly saying that slur.
I also hope OP (as in the blog owner) knows that being bisexual doesn’t make him exempt from transphobia.
Don’t you find it funny that when whiny people complain about moderation on some instance, it’s always because they were transphobic? Yeah, what a surprise.
I couldn’t care less that your « joke » was « unintentionally » transphobic, and I couldn’t care even lesser that you don’t understand that every instance manages their own moderation as they see fit.
In good old Reddit words, maybe you should have posted this in « AmITheAsshole », because boy do I have some news for you
This is a little scary. You can find yourself banned pretty easily. All it takes is to annoy someone with nothing better to do than dig through your post history, and find something old that you wrote hastily which might break a rule. I know because it happened to me.
Back in my Reddit days I got banned twice - once from a subreddit and once a site-wide shadowban (which got rescinded when I appealed, amazingly) and both were random bolts from the blue where I didn’t actually break the rule I was banned for. In the shadowban case I happened to belong to a subreddit that was apparently in the midst of brigading another subreddit I was reading, and when I upvoted a few comments I guess I triggered some kind of anti-brigade filter. In the case of the subreddit ban, there was a guy being downvoted who was complaining about it and I explained to him why I thought it was likely that he was getting downvotes. That subreddit had a “no downvotes allowed” rule and the mods must have figured that since I was explaining why the guy was getting downvotes I must also be downvoting him. On Reddit there’s no way to actually tell who’s downvoting who.
Here on the Fediverse it’s both a bit more scary since every instance can have whatever standards of care it wants, but it’s also less scary because every instance can have whatever standards of care it wants. I can just create a new account at a different instance if the one I’m on turns out to be run by yo-yos. Hopefully the account migration features get implemented soon to make that even easier.
“If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged.” –Cardinal Richelieu
This kind of thing is why digital privacy is so important. But everyone is like “i have nothing to hide from the government”
We are statistical outliers, etc etc.
Find a mostly European instance. Problem solved.
Americans are desperately trying to globalize their concerns everywhere.
