To be fair, the downside to our voting system is there's no way to express silent disapproval. Most of the time that is a good thing because it forces you to discuss the reason behind your disagreement, but it doesn't leave you with a lot of ways to say "I disapprove of this but also I don't want to get caught up in your drama hurricane."
Yeah I view that type of commenting as putting trans people in more danger. In retrospect, it wasn't storyofrachel who posted that, it was a different unhinged user who was likely the type of wrecker who posts extreme takes to then go back to 4chan to point at and say see, look how dangerous these people are! The fact the mods did nothing about it and actually seemed to encourage that shit pissed me off. This site was fucking weird back then, and I totally blame those early mods who were extremely immature and publicly not managing their personal shit.
To be fair, the downside to our voting system is there's no way to express silent disapproval. Most of the time that is a good thing because it forces you to discuss the reason behind your disagreement, but it doesn't leave you with a lot of ways to say "I disapprove of this but also I don't want to get caught up in your drama hurricane."
Yeah I view that type of commenting as putting trans people in more danger. In retrospect, it wasn't storyofrachel who posted that, it was a different unhinged user who was likely the type of wrecker who posts extreme takes to then go back to 4chan to point at and say see, look how dangerous these people are! The fact the mods did nothing about it and actually seemed to encourage that shit pissed me off. This site was fucking weird back then, and I totally blame those early mods who were extremely immature and publicly not managing their personal shit.