TikTok being down less than a day.

Yeah, I’m not sure what it means either, which means I’m not sure how many red flags the earlier thread I linked should be setting off. A random mod on LW being respectability politics about neopronouns is meh, someone higher up the chain than that and it’s brake pumping time IMO.

Also like, presumably everyone else on LW thought they were allowed to moderate their communities how they saw fit before that announcement, you know? My understanding is the LW admins shelved the policy for retooling, not retirement, so personally it’s not something I would want to chance. I don’t think anyone is purposefully lying to you guys, but I also don’t think they’d make an exception just for 196 to do whatever it wants with any future instance rule changes.

I understand they’re not an admin. In the page I linked you can see they’ve been put in the “Community Team” section. Are you saying that “Community Team” is a convoluted title that the LW admins have chosen to say “person who mods /c/lemmyworld”? Or do they have some other role that I can’t find outlined anywhere? (Which could be on my end, the site I linked doesn’t play well with mobile)

I guess I’m not sure what a “Community Team” member does, then, if they have no control or input on how LW policies are carried out in communities. I can’t find an explanation anywhere here so maybe someone can point me in the right direction.

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This is correct, but the original was 195. They closed it I think either because it got bigger than they intended or because they were graduating or something, so the successor community 196 was made.

Reposting this since you said you were going to answer questions in the !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com post but this one is still unanswered:

If the move had nothing to do with pronouns and you’ll continue to enforce rules about neopronouns, how do you feel about one of the LW community team mods making statements like this about them? Do you feel confident that they will always let you enforce neopronoun rules if they decide that it’s hurting LW?

I’m a trans man and nobody has ever hurt me by using neopronouns. The people who have harassed and assaulted me almost certainly feel the same way about people with neopronouns as they do about me. People who use neopronouns are my siblings, and if someone needs me to throw them under the bus to respect me or my pronouns then frankly they are also part of the problem.

Tl;dr, there’s a reason that people you can’t get on board with using she/her don’t set the standard for what a real pronoun is.

You and LW are allowed to do whatever you want, you just shouldn’t be surprised when making borderline transphobic statements and refusing to clarify reflects badly on the instance.

If someone uses it as one, yeah it is.

Your personal stance, being that you are a community team member of LW, has a lot to do with it. That’s who I’m asking, not you the person.

If the move had nothing to do with pronouns and you’ll continue to enforce rules about neopronouns, how do you feel about one of the LW community team mods making statements like this about them? Do you feel confident that they will always let you enforce neopronoun rules if they decide that it’s hurting LW?

For clarity are you suggesting that some pronouns shouldn’t be respected based on the judgement of the mods?