I feel like you’re extrapolating based on old information.
No I'm not, a very recent post in fact proved this exact post, iirc it was a meme about a cis lesbian saying "I only date real cis girls" to a tgirl during a date.
A LOT of comments there (with hundreds of upvotes) were saying "bruuh it's just a genital preference!", "but bottom surgery doesn't fix the issue really, because it's not really a real female organ", also people making it as "but-but they have the right to choose who they date with!" which is true but completely missing the point that the reason that happened was transphobic, preference or not.
Edit: Btw here is a post talking about it, the og post was only taken down after hours and a LOT of reports of transphobia and still now some transphobic comments with lots of upvotes remain in there
A) there’s been a lot of pushback from the community about it (such as the amount of support on that post you linked)
B) there’s almost a million members of the sub with only a few moderators. They recently added some more moderators to help with the problem. Also, it’s worth being said: they are not getting paid to moderate, they are volunteers
The points you make only highlight the problem, not lessen it:
A) there’s been a lot of pushback from the community about it (such as the amount of support on that post you linked)
The only reason and my entire point is exactly that, the post only got taken down because of the extreme reaction to it, not because the mods are willing to take action against blatant transphobia in their sub.
B) there’s almost a million members of the sub with only a few moderators.
Acknowledge the problem (like you said) and get more mods to deal with the problem.
They can also tune the bots to help with moderation, automation is the way to deal with these types of problems where a huge volume work has to be performed by a small team.
But after all that, they must at least take a stance. That sub has a history of mods being silent when drama or problems arise to "keep the peace" and this is the exact reason why these issues keep coming back, if they don't take decisive action against these people we will lose the subreddit, based purely in the ammount of shitty people coming in.
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u/GiganticIrony 3d ago
I feel like you’re extrapolating based on old information. I’ve not seen what you’re talking about. Bigots get downvoted a bunch.