About A place for serious and silly content intended for women’s perspectives.
(We are not the same mods as the Reddit r/twoxchromosomes
[https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/] sub) Rules We are currently
following a modified version of r/TwoXChromosomes rules here
[https://slrpnk.net/comment/19...
A month ago, I made a post asking that c/twoXchromosomes be removed from the instance due to known concerns with the name in regards to trans people, and the mods' stated intention not to compromise on the name. Since then, the community's mods have gone inactive. u/[email protected] has only two posts on the website, and the most recent one is 2 months ago. u/GreatWhiteBuffalo41 has not commented on the site in 22 days, and has not been active on c/twoXchromosomes for 2 months. There have been 4 posts to the community in the time since my post about the community name a month ago. The modlog shows no mod activity in 2 months.
I would like to appeal to the admins that I may take over the community, set it to restricted mode, and make the only post on the community a sticky explaining the problems with the name and redirecting to other feminist communities across the Fediverse.
I agree it does not look very actively moderated right now. Did you try contacting u/GreatWhiteBuffalo41 via DM?
But I think I will include this community in next month's "community gardening" list together with other seemingly abandoned communities to see if there are any people interested in taking it over. If not we can do what you propose or just prune it.
The original subreddit was kind of a cesspool anyway. I witnessed men and women get bullied over trivial nonsense so much that I unsubbed from the original subreddit.
Considering your intention is to close the community, it might be good to have a discussion over there about who should be at the helm. If the community is largely supportive of the direction you want to take it, then great. If not, and the mods are inactive, it might be better to have someone more invested in the existing community take over.
I’m not sure it’s that clear cut. Most of the comments seem to be opposed and while you did get a lot of upvotes, there are a notable number downvotes too. Some people may have upvoted the discussion even if they don’t support a full closure. I think it’s a bit ambiguous, and might be clarified by a clearer discussion or poll. Also, the Lemmy community has shrank somewhat and who is still here may be a slightly different compared to back then.
Was this post after downvotes were enabled? I can’t remember.
If I see correctly, 6 top-level comments were not in favour, 1 was a joke and 1 I'm not sure whether it was serious or not. I would not call that "most people agreed". I didn't count the upvotes because people upvote for a variety of reasons. I often upvote things just because someone stated their thoughts clearly and politely. But in any case, even if most people quietly agree with you, we cannot make that conclusion from that post.
At least regarding the name of the subreddit and it’s original intentions, this post from 14yrs ago makes clear it wasn’t intended to be trans-exclusionary.
That post from 14 years ago makes it clear they knew the name was controversial and would attract transphobes 14 years ago, and they still did nothing about it. As they say, "the road to hell is paved with good intentions". Which means: Good intentions don't mean anything if paired with bad actions. I also have personal experiences with enbyphobia from the r/2xc mod team. Awkward The Turtle said she hated nonbinary people after she was banned from r/ennn for transphobia.
Also I know your reputation from elsewhere and I would appreciate it if you not comment on any of my posts, please. Your comment here is really solidifying your reputation and I just don't want to deal with you.
Excuse me? I was just trying to add some context, I was not trying to make a call on whether or not they should stick around here.
I have no idea what reputation you’re alluding too but I don’t think it’s fair or reasonable to ask me to not comment on your posts. Are you accusing me of enbyphobia or transphobia for linking this? I’m NB Trans Femme. I’m disabled as well, I do not have the spare spoons to remember your specific username as well as check the OP of every post I reply too. It’s ableist to suggest that I should.
Edit: Also, if you think people should be allowed to ask others not to comment on their posts, then that is just going to be abused by trolls to shutdown opposition.
Sorry for the technical question, but how did you manage to cross-post this to the same community? Looks like you found a bug in Lemmy with this combination as it isn't listed in /c/meta on the normal Lemmy webui.
@HardlightCereal pointed it already out, but I think its worth mentioning in top level comment.
In the original discussion on this topic (here and here) it felt good faith and folks atleast tried to be trans inclusive from my perspective. Also the moderation at that moment took a pretty transinclusive stance, see their FAQ.
When I look at the current discussion on [email protected] it does not seem to be the same spirit. I think multiple upvoted comments are trans exclusionary and/or transphobic. None of those comments come from users that are from slrpnk.net btw
While I think this sample size is to small to judge a community with 800+ users, it still shows atleast a tendency.
A month ago, I told people that it would take constant effort from the mods to remove the transphobia a name like this attracts. It's been a month, the mods put in zero effort, and the transphobes are running rampant. Thank you for seeing this.