Waging a campaign to purge users from a small niche website, enforcing some weird version of an anonymous progressive stack, and acting like it's revolutionary is sad and liberal, yes
Then what the fuck is your suggestion? Trans people are actively leaving the site because of the hostile environment? Do you want us to do more of the uhhhhh nothing that's causing them to leave? You can outright say it if you want.
oh, do downvotes hurt your feelings? I wonder what that would be like, to post something positive and then have it heavily downvoted for no reason. Wonder what that would be like. :leslie-shining:
Yea. It sucks to just be downvoted brigade style. Which is why it shouldnt happen on trans-positive posts. Doesn't change my criticism of how the issue is being handled by mods.
removing downvotes because some people can't stop being reactionary is a weak suggestion. It's good to be able to downvote actual bad and shitty content. People were abusing it. We don't remove the tool because some people are abusing using the tool to stab others.
I made a comment elsewhere explaining it. I'll repost here:
If the issue is that trans users are seeing the number of downvotes trans-positives posts receive and that makes them feel unwelcome, then just remove the icon that shows the number of downvotes a post received. Still allow downvotes, but make it like reddit where you only see the net voting. There’s any number of reasons why someone might downvote a post and I understand that trans users might see the downvotes and think it’s targetted because of trans reasons. This fixes the immediate issue at hand. Obviously there is some deeper community building that should go on on making the community welcoming, but that kind of thing isn’t something that can be solved with new rules and mods.
Waging a campaign to purge users from a small niche website, enforcing some weird version of an anonymous progressive stack, and acting like it's revolutionary is sad and liberal, yes
me: i want the trans subs to not be 25% downvotes, so trans people feel safe to be here
you: thinking of other peoples feeling is reactionariy
Then what the fuck is your suggestion? Trans people are actively leaving the site because of the hostile environment? Do you want us to do more of the uhhhhh nothing that's causing them to leave? You can outright say it if you want.
Lol. I engage in good faith criticism and get downvotes before I can even add the previous comment. Fuck off
oh, do downvotes hurt your feelings? I wonder what that would be like, to post something positive and then have it heavily downvoted for no reason. Wonder what that would be like. :leslie-shining:
Yea. It sucks to just be downvoted brigade style. Which is why it shouldnt happen on trans-positive posts. Doesn't change my criticism of how the issue is being handled by mods.
removing downvotes because some people can't stop being reactionary is a weak suggestion. It's good to be able to downvote actual bad and shitty content. People were abusing it. We don't remove the tool because some people are abusing using the tool to stab others.
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I made a comment elsewhere explaining it. I'll repost here:
If the issue is that trans users are seeing the number of downvotes trans-positives posts receive and that makes them feel unwelcome, then just remove the icon that shows the number of downvotes a post received. Still allow downvotes, but make it like reddit where you only see the net voting. There’s any number of reasons why someone might downvote a post and I understand that trans users might see the downvotes and think it’s targetted because of trans reasons. This fixes the immediate issue at hand. Obviously there is some deeper community building that should go on on making the community welcoming, but that kind of thing isn’t something that can be solved with new rules and mods.
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