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An interesting case of moderation in the fediverse (blog.ownlifeful.com)

submitted 1 year ago by nightauthor@kbin.social to c/fediverse@kbin.social

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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.

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[+] Maajmaaj@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (7 children)

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[–] nightauthor@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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.

[–] brain_pan@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Nyla_Smokeyface@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

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.

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