I’m sure every other commenter’s pointed this out, but they did pour gas on the fire with a very poorly thought out explanation/apology post (prior to the final “we are reversing course” post) that read very much like “We are sorry that you were offended by our justified and reasonable actions 🥺 pls stop being mad, we’re just a small bean”
Yeah, they specifically cited not liking that blahaj.zone’s policy that mods (and users) should respect neopronouns, no matter how insane they sound. The idea is that if they’re a troll, this deals with the problem pretty effectively since nobody wants to be a streaker in a nudist colony, and it also lets the occasional person who actually wants their pronouns to be attack/helicopter to not get bullied for looking like a troll. Point is, the 196 mods thought this was a bad idea. They also didn’t like that Ada required them to have a blahaj.zone account to deal with federation issues.
That’s not true, they specifically said multiple times that that policy had nothing to do with their decision.
Whether or not we should believe them about that is of course a different question, given that the first any of them publicly floated their harebrained plan was in the replies to some guy bitching about that policy.
I’m sure every other commenter’s pointed this out, but they did pour gas on the fire with a very poorly thought out explanation/apology post (prior to the final “we are reversing course” post) that read very much like “We are sorry that you were offended by our justified and reasonable actions 🥺 pls stop being mad, we’re just a small bean”
Nobody mentioned that specifically, actually. That does add more context.
Yeah, they specifically cited not liking that blahaj.zone’s policy that mods (and users) should respect neopronouns, no matter how insane they sound. The idea is that if they’re a troll, this deals with the problem pretty effectively since nobody wants to be a streaker in a nudist colony, and it also lets the occasional person who actually wants their pronouns to be attack/helicopter to not get bullied for looking like a troll. Point is, the 196 mods thought this was a bad idea. They also didn’t like that Ada required them to have a blahaj.zone account to deal with federation issues.
That’s not true, they specifically said multiple times that that policy had nothing to do with their decision.
Whether or not we should believe them about that is of course a different question, given that the first any of them publicly floated their harebrained plan was in the replies to some guy bitching about that policy.