Snowe, an admin, complained about a transgender person being offended over being misgendered. Ategon made an apology post but keeps snowe on, no public apologies from snowe to the transgender people affected.

Textbook very-smart

note: conversation about Ategon's use of the word triggered edited out, might be misunderstanding, need clarified

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[–] brainw0rms@hexbear.net 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I read Ategon's post and while I appreciate their attempt at reconciliation(?), when you look at the actual internal changes they're making:

admins will be required to have two accounts, one for admin activities and one for non admin activities. This is how some admins have already been interacting in the fediverse and basically makes it so comments done on the non-admin account should not be taken as that admin speaking on behalf of the instance. Generally the admin account will be things done relating to admin duties (e.g. my posts here in meta) while the non-admin account is other various conversations. Admins can be as anonymous as they want with the non-admin account similar to how our users here can be as anonymous as they want with their accounts

im adding in some guidelines for tone while chatting for the admins so comments made that are on behalf of the instance should be respectful and not devolve to slap fights

Adopting an official policy of making admins use alt accounts for "non-admin activities" (which includes posting problematic garbage) doesn't seem to address any of the problems that led to this, other than allowing the instance additional plausible deniability for their admin's behavior. Really doesn't seem very transparent to me.

I'd rather know what the admins of an instance stand for and are all about by their posts, so I can make an informed decision before engaging with any of the comms on their instance.

[–] Ategon@hexbear.net 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

The two account situation is to solve another issue with the situation which is taking things admins say as speaking on behalf of the instance due to all comments getting marked with the admin or mod flair. If they post things breaking instance rules on there they will still be handled. Im going to be refining the guidebook more with things like intended conduct on all accounts just havent fleshed out the specific sections yet

But yeah last paragraph is fair. Typically what I try to convey with the rules in the site sidebar so people dont have to dig around for stuff and can see what we handle on the instance but yeah not every opinion can be conveyed in instance rules

[–] silent_water@hexbear.net 1 points 10 months ago

ok but the transphobia is completely not ok and the actual issue that needs to be handled.