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Aaron Rodericks the man can block whoever he likes, but Aaron Rodericks the head of T&S for a pretty well-funded startup (please shut the fuck up about how much of a little guy you are) should probably not prevent large swathes of users from seeing posts that are official site policy

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I feel like that's pretty straightforward. If you want to control your boundaries maybe split into personal and work accounts?

More generally I think the aggressive conflation of criticism with harassment, and then of harassment with violent threats, is pretty irresponsible to be engaging in. I think whining about lack of resources when you haven't even *acknowledged* problems users care about it pretty pathetic.

And of course bluesky continues to have the fundamental problem which is that it's a heavily moderated "pleasant" space on the subjects that the admins care about (ie, no one can be mean to their dipshit friends or their dipshit chatbots) but it's the wild west otherwise.

You can't be branding large numbers of accounts as "rude" and defaulting to hiding their posts, suspending people aggressively on tenuous interpretations of posts, and then with the other side of your mouth "well if you're so bothered about transphobia you're welcome to Do Your Own Moderation"

i assume you've already seen his "sample spreadsheet" but i am dying reading people posting about it like i'm about to read mein kampf and then opening it to find "what if i got aaron deported from ireland" and "it's obviously policy that doxing is fine, so he's included" and "beat him with sticks"

100% he asked claude to pick the 50 worst replies he got and make that spreadsheet too, because again I def haven't said anywhere even in that territory to him!

Like I did mod training for WotC's message boards some ~20ish years ago, and an one of the things they drilled into you was "you can participate in the community but you are not to do so when wearing your moderator hat" which made abundant sense to me. Amazing how we've lost so much.

This place is actively getting even worse and its in large part because of Aaron being a child tbh

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I got an email the other morning telling me "your reports are now being muted" for reporting hate speech. Apparently they think that's offensive and it said if I didn't stop reporting I would be suspended for platform manipulation. I was reporting hate speech suggesting trans people should die. 🤷