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For a community that bills itself as
“General discussions about “science” itself
Be sure to also check out these other Fediverse science communities:”
And is full of news articles explaining science, having a biologist explain the science of sex biology is not a right fight for a general science community.
I’m glad to hear it was a simple mistake.
If I could make a suggestion restoring the post, and banning users such as ‘[email protected]’ who had commented, an account with prior history of multiple actual transphobic comments in their history, might be a good start to move forward.
Also if you don’t mind, could you please DM me with the information for who made the ‘transphobia’ report? I’ve noticed some other issues with false reports on some of @[email protected]’s posts and I would like to further keep an eye on what accounts are doing this to Quokk.au’s users as it may be part of more targeted harassment.
Oh.
I checked the reports, and what I see is a sequence of 6 reports reporting hoohoohoot’s comments. I do not have a vivid memory of the moment as I was just processing the back-log, but what must have happened is that In haste I interpreted this as 6 independent reports of the post, not noticing that the reports were of the comments, and so when I opened the post I was operating on what I mistakenly thought was a very high signal. I still did not want to claim ‘transphobia’ in my reason without verifying that, so, as I explained, I used the loophole as an excuse.
Usually, if this would really have been 6 independent reports of the same post, removing it would have been very likely the correct move. This contributed to why I was careless.
Here are 4 of them, I removed the names because these are not false reports:
That’s fair, thanks for clearing that up :)
Yeah, I’m sorry. I usually try to not be this careless and it is very unlikely to happen again (at least this specific form of mistake. I am open to making new kinds of mistakes in the future).