Methodist Church of England labels “husband” and “wife” offensive terms.

lol dovetail this with a post about how the UMC in america is essentially dissolving.

A huge portion of the church body and money is going on the chud side of the schism

Okay, this looks like the usual newspaper reporting on religion, which is "have no idea what the difference between denominations is".

If I go by the picture, it's the United Methodist Church, not "the Methodist Church of England"; that would be simply the Methodist Church, or the Methodist Church of Great Britain.

The United Methodists originated in the USA and are way more liberal and splitting over the whole LGBT thing. So while there is a branch of the United Methodist Church in the UK, it's much smaller and has nothing to do with either the Church of England or the Methodist Church there.

So the story is now "ultra-liberal small denomination does ultra-liberal thing" instead of "big original church dumps marriage!!!"

EDIT: Okay, so better story says it is the Methodist Church in Great Britain, which is a bigger deal but they're still a relatively small denomination with 171,000 members. They're about the fourth largest single denomination in Britain so while it's kind of a big deal, at the same time it's a liberal denomination doing this thing which most people won't care about. If the official state church, the Church of England, starts doing the same thing, then it's time to worry.

Christianity?

Reddit had a test run of this phenomenon in 2020 & 2021 when the mods of AgainstHateSubreddits and a bunch of LGBTQ subreddits were targeted with weaponised reporting.

At that time, I called for a sanity check be placed in the “user has been reported -> user gets suspended” pipeline — a human element that could double check that the report was processed appropriately and that the suspension was in fact warranted.

Who knows what they've done to address this problem?

Whatever it has been, it's clearly not been enough, and it has caused a trust thermocline inversion.

Throughout 2022, they did their best to communicate to us that they value moderators - but they haven't closed this exploit.

It's been leveraged against moderators, against content producers, etc.

Simultaneously, communities that chronically platform hate speech are unactioned.

It's been 3 years since they overhauled the Sitewide rules and internal policies. They need to revisit those policies and processes.

Snapshots:

• ghostarchive.org

• archive.org

• archive.ph (click to archive)