I didn't question the transphobe purge until just recently but now I no longer trust the admins and mods. I have no confidence that was anything other than some bullshit they said to ban people who bickered with the insider clique. Now that yesterday's drama post actually gave an example of how little it takes and how much the site will gaslight an ethical problem from simply displeasing a power user.
I was once banned from /r/startrek under similar rules. They were banning people for bringing in "negative attitudes" and I asked what that meant exactly and they banned me for it lol. It was very obviously brought in to remove people who didn't like Discovery and Picard but it was under the guise of removing trolls and racists. Several mods on there have even accused anyone who hates the show as being racist.
Hell to TERFs and transphobes but that purge brought up so many false positives it was hilarious. I get that people don't want to put up with bullshit and trans people already deal with having to justify their existence every day but some of the "transphobic user" bans didn't stand up to scrutiny and were unbanned almost immediately after. It kind of shook my faith a little.
I didn't question the transphobe purge until just recently but now I no longer trust the admins and mods. I have no confidence that was anything other than some bullshit they said to ban people who bickered with the insider clique. Now that yesterday's drama post actually gave an example of how little it takes and how much the site will gaslight an ethical problem from simply displeasing a power user.
I was once banned from /r/startrek under similar rules. They were banning people for bringing in "negative attitudes" and I asked what that meant exactly and they banned me for it lol. It was very obviously brought in to remove people who didn't like Discovery and Picard but it was under the guise of removing trolls and racists. Several mods on there have even accused anyone who hates the show as being racist.
Hell to TERFs and transphobes but that purge brought up so many false positives it was hilarious. I get that people don't want to put up with bullshit and trans people already deal with having to justify their existence every day but some of the "transphobic user" bans didn't stand up to scrutiny and were unbanned almost immediately after. It kind of shook my faith a little.