I came into my room and there was a web directly across the inside of my doorway even though it had only been a couple of hours since I last walked in here. Of course I immediately thought of this old Far Side which is never too far from my mind
Have loved this particular Far Side moment for ages.
Man what a glitch that must have been it's crazy how it's only affected trans women how weird!! Man I tell ya technology is wild
I mean, I assume it's the same problem the site has always had which is that their auto flagging algorithms works based on what noticing similarities with posts that are flagged frequently. Terfs can and do easily abuse the report feature and mass flag anything to do with trans people so the algorithms starts associating the words those posts have in common as being things that should be flagged. It's the same thing that happened when we saw a bunch of seemingly random words being flagged when they first implemented their auto flagging stuff.
This isn't me saying "oh it's just a silly mistake! whoopsie!" It's a major screw up and they've rightfully faced lawsuits for it already. The fact there's a reason, within the code of the site, for the issue doesn't make it less of a problem and an outrage. It means it's a deeper issue than "someone went in and told the machine to flag posts with the words 'trans woman'" in it". It means the entire algorithm they use to moderate the site is flawed and in a way that disproportionately affects the people they already don't do anything to protect and has been basically since its implementation, years ago.
Gamer moment
true gamers are equal opportunity haters
I used an enby pride flag in league (which gives you a little flag trail behind your character) and someone said to me:
"What are your pronouns so I can insult you properly"
