Hey everyone, I’ve removed bans for everyone that did not request one in the previous admin thread. (I think. If you got banned and I didn’t restore your account yet, let me know and I’ll fix it.) Don’t worry! We’re not gonna just ban people for no reason.

In case anyone hasn’t seen it yet, Alaskaball confirmed that Sangria was their admin alt. They were messing around with their admin tools on their own account and figured it would be seen as a funny bit, but without being informed of the bit many of the mods and admins were just as shocked, confused, and appalled as you were. I’ve talked to the other admins and mods, and we’re all gonna take it easy on bits for a bit. (Pun intended. This is the last one, I promise.)

If you’re afraid that there’s been an infiltration of transphobic, egomaniacal wrecker mods who hate the users, I want to assure you that’s absolutely not the case. The overwhelming majority of mods and admins on this site are trans. Our admins are all trusted, long-time users in good standing. We regularly browse, comment, and post on our main accounts. You post and chat with us daily as comrades, and we value all of you. You may not recognize the usernames on our admin accounts because we regularly swap the alts used for admin privileges. This is why you’ll see really old or unused alt accounts as well as really new accounts on the admin team.

I’ve seen a lot of speculation down below, some entertaining, some upsetting. We absolutely do not accept transphobia or any form of bigotry on this site. Some of the statements provided by mods and admins have been seen as transphobic and bioessentialist. I want to offer some transparency, but also clarify that I can’t get much more specific on this for personal security reasons.

During the earlier discussions on how we felt things could be improved with these communities, multiple trans mods and admins described their reasoning in favour of the change by expressing with a variety of wording that it’s the [he/him] demographic in particular that has been the source of toxic and troubling behavior in the tanks. That the he/hims haven’t been beating the accusations, so to speak. With that group being largely cishet white guys on this site, these two terms were assumed to roughly correlate. We weren’t making prepared statements for release, the comments that got posted here were paraphrased and combined from more casual comments made by trans people, in the mod chat to mostly other trans people about some of the chauvinistic and ironically bigoted posting habits that they saw as alienating and unhealthy for the site, and what we could do to improve the situation. We genuinely didn’t foresee the potential for a miscommunication of those statements as being bioessentialist, and want to extend our sincerest apologies for the misunderstanding.

Edit: Please feel welcome to post in c/gossip as you would have posted in the_dunk_tank, and in c/counterpropaganda as you would have posted in the_dredge_tank.

    • REgon [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      7 days ago

      That too, but I meant loose as in “loose lips sink ships”
      Let something slip that somebody wishing to dox you would grab onto. Let it be a lie. Makes it much harder to build a portfolio of who you are. “Accidentally” link to an instagram with very few followers so one of them has to be you, but let that instagram have absolutely no relation to you. Tell a funny story that divulges false information.
      Post a “personal” picture that has easily identifiable geography. Let that be a picture you took on vacation. Attach a story to it about how it’s a picture of your back yard. You live in an area where the climate sustains lime and you wanna tell a story about it? Change the plant to apples or vice versa.
      You feel the need to tell people about your fucked up shoulder? Now it’s your knee.
      Tell people your dad is a fed, when it’s actually your mom.

        • REgon [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
          12·
          7 days ago

          ecoterrorist I would never vaguepost about my nation of residence and very rarely explicitpost about it and then delete the explicit posts so I’d make it seem it’s something I’m trying to be elusive about. I’d especially never do it and not let it be the actual place I live. Imagine if I did that and then used a chatbot to help translate things into a language I don’t actually speak in order to further sell the illusion as well as once in a while searching up news relevant to that nation and then see if I can find an article in that nations’ language and then post that one instead of the english one to even further sell the illusion. That’d be crazy haha.
          I’d never do that side-eye-2