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BardWatch She/Her Anti-Hate-Brigade  4mo ago (text post) 59 thread views #284781

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Asuka's Anti-Transphobia Field (@asukafield.bsky.social):

Hello BlueSky! My name is Asuka. I am a trans woman concerned with transphobia on this app. In spite of my better judgement, I have decided to start a labeler for transphobia because it is an issue that is not being addressed enough.

This is a solo operation intended to stay limited in scope.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Hi. Here is my criticism of your proposal:

Labelers exist to allow shared responsibility and effort on administering a "bucket" or set of "buckets". They provide a shared inbox and ticket resolution system. That is their distinguishing characteristic from a standard blocklist.

Asuka's Anti-Transphobia Field (@asukafield.bsky.social):

Hi Penny. I agree! I am not a fan of blocklists but I know that people do want them so I want to provide the option. In the future, expanding to a larger team is a possibility, but at the present moment it does not make sense to attempt to put together a team on a limited scale of work.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

If you keep open building a team, a labeling service makes sense.

If you do build a team, my advice is:

Ownership / direction

⬇️

Policy

⬇️

Lever-pullers

You, as owner, shouldn't pull levers, and lever-pullers (reports processors) shouldn't set policy or have more agency than necessary.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Policy writers shouldn't set direction or pull levers.

By "lever puller", I mean the people closing tickets, & they should be asking themselves the same simple yes/no question on each report for a given violation type.

Like, "does this express a transphobic slur?".

It will lower burnout & stress
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Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

If your operation is going to be a solo effort, you can save the expense of running the labeler system, and just maintain a userlist. Or several userlists.

Doing so will also save bandwidth on labels, which have a current arbitrary limit of ~10 on an account.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

The tradeoff is that you'd need people to DM you links to posts they're reporting, rather than use the built in report flow.

Asuka's Anti-Transphobia Field (@asukafield.bsky.social):

That is a major tradeoff for me which would greatly diminish usability in my eyes.

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Transphobe Identifier (@phobeid.bsky.social):

This sounds like a criticism of the chosen implementation, rather than the outcome. It does not seem appropriate to complain about it if you're not funding the labeler.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

I'm not complaining. Good faith criticism is advice and wisdom. I apologise for the dry, flat tone my criticism was couched in; Old Habits, etc.

Asuka's Anti-Transphobia Field (@asukafield.xyz):

I did not read it as a complaint! I understand everyone has strong feelings about labelers right now anyway.

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