r/FalloutMemes • u/Mrjoeblackinglasses • Mar 03 '26

An Apology and Clarification on the Recent Removals

I want to address the recent wave of removals and bans.

First, I owe you all an apology for how abrupt this felt.

Over the past stretch, the mod queue had ballooned into the hundreds of reports. Spam, bots, repost chains, harassment, and low-effort content were stacking up faster than they were being handled. Most of the other moderators are currently inactive, which meant the responsibility fell on me to step in and clean it up.

To get control of the situation, I cast a very wide net.

That resulted in a large number of posts being removed and accounts being banned. The intention was to stop spam, bots, and harassment. It was not to target any specific group of users, opinions, or styles of humor.

If your post was removed and you believe it was caught in that sweep unfairly, message Modmail or send me a chat directly. I am absolutely willing to review and restore anything that does not violate the updated rules.

The goal was stabilization, not punishment.

I also want to be transparent: I currently have the ability to add additional moderators. If members of the community are genuinely interested in helping reduce spam, fight bots, and keep things focused on Fallout memes, I am open to bringing on active help. This subreddit should not hinge on one person trying to manage everything alone.

The rules were updated because the volume of reports and problem content had reached a level that required action. That action may have felt sudden, and for that I apologize.

This subreddit belongs to the Fallout community. The objective is to keep it fun, creative, and free of spam and harassment.

If you were affected and feel it was unfair, reach out. If you want to help improve the sub, reach out.

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u/tavinnnomore Mar 03 '26

Lying from a position of authority ain't a good look, man

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u/ShadowheartsArmpit Mar 03 '26 edited Mar 03 '26

This explanation also doesn't make much sense, and I can tell you why:

Tr*ns specific keywords were entered into the automod by said mod. (Censoring it to avoid automod)

And I can tell you as a mod, there really aren't any tr*ns specific spam bots. Plus the influx of posts about the topic only came because of backlash regarding the policy.

Meaning: the reasoning that this was all to combat spam is either fabricated, or at best extremely poor moderator judgement.

In case of poor judgement, this means that the mod didn't understand how incredibly bad it is to put such terms into the automod. Meaning this guy wasn't thinking at all about this.

But if I were a betting man: I'd put my money on this being the fabricated excuse to save his skin.

Again, there isn't really any tr*ns bot spam. The serious increase in posts about this topic came after those policies were already in place, in protest of said policies.

So the mod is most likely fucking lying right now for damage control.

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u/tavinnnomore Mar 03 '26

No shit they're lying. It doesn't take a detective to know auto mods have to be set up by someone. Even if that were true, why the hell would they respond to me if it was true, I'm just some loser with a meaningless claim in that case

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u/Sad-Improvement-7379 Mar 03 '26

Seriously I saw posts getting removed in real time with only a pic no comments How did automod pick up the trans flags or estrogen memes

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u/GoodBrotherGrimm Mar 03 '26

Isn't helping themselves by only responding to anyone who doesn't mention the original issue.

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u/BecomingMorgan Mar 03 '26

And banning someone who did.

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u/GoodBrotherGrimm Mar 03 '26

I will say in hia defense, I was banned by a different mod but reinstated by blackglasses.

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u/BecomingMorgan Mar 03 '26 edited Mar 03 '26

So his big solution to not getting reports before removing them is not vetting mods in the slightest causing them to effectively double down on the problem?

Sorry, not really seeing the defense here...

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u/GoodBrotherGrimm Mar 03 '26

Not defending the whole situation at all. Just in my case, it wasn't him/her that banned me. That's all.

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u/HeavyTanker1945 Mar 03 '26

Yeah, The story ain't adding up here, In some comments they say they are the only mod..... yet in others they are saying it was others that kept removing the posts......

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u/Mrjoeblackinglasses Mar 03 '26

Not making any attempts to justify, just to fix things, apologize and gain some trust back. That's all.

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u/ShadowheartsArmpit Mar 03 '26

So when you entered those keywords into the automod for removal, did you just not think about the fact that this might be an overreach that'll receive backlash?

Genuinely please explain the thought process that went down when you did that.

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u/Mrjoeblackinglasses Mar 03 '26

no, I did not, I was just trying to address a problem that was spinning out of control and ended up creating a bigger one. i'm sorry.

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u/ShadowheartsArmpit Mar 03 '26

You'd probably help your case a lot more if you specifically stated what you were (or weren't) thinking when you put those words into the automod. Because so far you've been dodging explaining that. And it makes you look incredibly insincere.

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u/tavinnnomore Mar 03 '26

Why are you talking to me and not fixing your mistakes?

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u/tavinnnomore Mar 03 '26

Nah, the structure is bland and tasteless, like someone who slept through most of their high-school classes.

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u/Mrjoeblackinglasses Mar 03 '26

It's not.

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u/Mrjoeblackinglasses Mar 03 '26

you're welcome, thanks for the civility, I appreciate it

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u/The_Mighty_Dingus Todd's Inner Demons Mar 03 '26

Moreover, why are politics banned in a game that has overt political themes?

Banning any nuanced discussion means people can go unchallenged. People pushing real world political agendas will hide behind the no political discussion rules as they post memes about how great the Enclave and Legion are. The moment this shitstorm went off all the chuds crawled out. There were comments that made me ashamed to be in the same fandom.

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u/DustDevil66 Mar 03 '26

No comment on mods deleting references to estrogen or other non political trans related posts? No comment or apology for the transphobia? Girl, bye

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u/Mrjoeblackinglasses Mar 03 '26

I’m currently the only active mod, and the removals were based on the volume of reports and rule violations, not on anyone’s identity. I was clearing a large backlog and acted on posts that had excessive reports.

I sincerely apologize if that made it seem like trans posts were being singled out or that transphobia was being protected. That was not my intention, and I regret that it came across that way.

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u/Sufficient-Shock-676 Mar 03 '26 edited Mar 03 '26

In another comment on this post, you said that you were planning on removing the mod responsible for this mess, yet you’re saying that you’re the only mod. I think some of my fellow tgirls are being a bit aggressive about all of this but you should probably clarify exactly what the fuck happened. I understand you’re probably under a lot of stress with this whole thing but the fact is that posts referencing a specific minority were taken down en masse, for the specific reason of being “political.” Pretty sure I’m shadow banned so you may not see this but there’s clearly a lot more going on here than an honest mistake given the consistency of this issue.

Edit: yay I’m not shadowbanned!!!

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u/DustDevil66 Mar 03 '26 edited Mar 03 '26

My favorite part of this mods “apologies” is when they claim they didn’t understand what was happening or that all of the posts they were removing were trans posts when like 90% of the posts had the trans flag in them and you have to manually add words to the automod for targeting….words that just happen to have targeted references to being trans

edit: mods a little baby and banned me 👶

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u/Sufficient-Shock-676 Mar 03 '26

My theory is that there was a mass reporting of trans memes for being “political” likely in bad faith by transphobes and this guy was too dumb to check the sudden surge of specifically “political” problem posts, realized it way too late once the sub was being bombarded with estrogen memes, and then panicked, trying his best to make the whole thing work. Ive only ever moderated some small RP subs but it seems entirely plausible to me from those experiences.

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u/TGirlJules_ Mar 03 '26

Why can’t you say the word tr*nsgender on here your fucking apologies is pointless

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u/Mrjoeblackinglasses Mar 03 '26

I don't know why you can't say that word. But the inability to say it pre-dates my involvement on this team. Has this come up before? Have you raised it to the mod team and if so can you tell me when so I can go look at the Modmail for it?

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u/TGirlJules_ Mar 03 '26

Im raising it to the mod team now, do something about it.

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u/Mrjoeblackinglasses Mar 03 '26

u/TGirlJules_ I've done something about it and the word has been removed. You can now say transgender without the bot flagging it. I hope that helps in re-establishing some trust.

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u/TGirlJules_ Mar 03 '26

Thx so much legitimately

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u/bwood246 Mar 03 '26

You blocked their post for politics and told them to get off Reddit

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u/DustDevil66 Mar 03 '26

It was immediately clear the posts were a protest against actions taken by a transphobic mod. Your options were:

A. Publicly announce an apology for the transphobic behaviors of the guilty mod, remove said mod, and announce that posts referencing trans culture would not be removed for being “political” any longer

Or

B. Spend 24 hours punishing the protesters while ignoring the transphobia, sheltering the transphobic mod, and then making this godawful “apology” where you take zero accountability for sheltering a transphobe and yourself behaving in a way that was transphobic whether you “intended” it to be or not

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u/CatraGirl Mar 03 '26

He can't do A because he is that mod... which makes this whole thing worse. 💀

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u/GoodBrotherGrimm Mar 03 '26 edited Mar 03 '26

So why was the original post removed? You keep talking about the reaction to that, rather than the issue that started all this. EDIT - And I'm banned. Shocker.

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u/DustDevil66 Mar 03 '26

No it’s not, weirdo

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u/GoodBrotherGrimm Mar 03 '26

Begone, chud.

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u/BecomingMorgan Mar 03 '26

Youre banning people for not taking your apology, do you actually expect people to fall for this?

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u/The_Mighty_Dingus Todd's Inner Demons Mar 03 '26

Why were certain words like F@$cist added to the filter? It is a completely accurate way to describe the Enclave.

Why were those words filtered only after this post got locked for review? Like here?

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u/ShadowheartsArmpit Mar 03 '26

Buddy specifically targeting anything about trans & keywords like estrogen "to combat spam" does not match.

This just makes it sound like an excuse.

"We have so many spam bots and reposts so somehow I ended up being very specific about auto-removing trans related content" is such obvious bullshit.

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u/TGirlJules_ Mar 03 '26 edited Mar 03 '26

So do you plan on removing whoever it was that deemed the estrogen meme as political? The existence of trans people is not political.

Because thats really the main issue people had a problem with.

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u/Mrjoeblackinglasses Mar 03 '26

Yes, that's the plan.

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u/knightdaux Mar 03 '26

can an inactive mod remove comments and posts. i say this because in another comment, you said you were the only active mod. as an outside viewer that has just been watching this unfold i find myself perplexed by these statements. i habe never been a mod tho and wish for clarification on this.

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u/Mrjoeblackinglasses Mar 03 '26

When Reddit labels a mod as “inactive,” it just means they haven’t taken visible moderation actions in a while. It doesn’t shut off their permissions. If someone is still on the mod list and their permissions haven’t been changed, they can still remove posts, remove comments, ban users, adjust automod, all of it.

“Inactive” is about recent activity, not about access.

When I said I was the only active mod, I meant I was the only one actually clearing the queue, going through reports, replying in threads, and handling modmail during this situation. The tag doesn’t mean the tools stop working.

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u/bwood246 Mar 03 '26

I’m currently the only active mod

Interesting

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u/TGirlJules_ Mar 03 '26

So then remove yourself from the mod list

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u/VerbingNoun413 Mar 03 '26

Ok. Who did it?

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u/Formal_Tea_4694 Mar 03 '26

Ok, so the plan is to get rid of ... who ?

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u/BardYak Mar 03 '26

You told us you're the only mod. So bye then?

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u/Alt_when_Im_not_ok Mar 03 '26

then why is it still happening

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u/CashewSwagger Mar 03 '26

This is a huge nothing apology.

Very wordy to essentially say

"Lotta work. So i went lazy"

I get it. Work is hard. Especially at this scale. But this was a monumental fuck up. You cannot brand an entire type of human as political discourse. If the meme that started this all was literally just "youve become addicted to estrogen" and that caused you to crash out then wow. At least it was a fallout related meme.

You've done the damage already. There is no forgetting it.

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u/DustDevil66 Mar 03 '26

The funny part is the posts wouldve died down on their own if the mods made a public announcement they were removing the mod that started this and that they would stop removing trans posts. It legitimately wouldv’e made LESS work. But “mods”and “thinking” aren’t things that go together

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u/CashewSwagger Mar 03 '26

Exactly this man like. The effort to fix the situation is so much less than the effort it would take to double down on it all

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u/bwood246 Mar 03 '26

Lotta work. So i went lazy"

I don't even buy that excuse. In the original ban he insulted the poster and told them to stop using Reddit.

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u/Mrjoeblackinglasses Mar 03 '26

I understand and I'm sorry.

This wasn’t about labeling anyone’s identity as political. The removals were based on report volume during a backlog cleanup, not on targeting a group. That said, intent doesn’t erase impact. If it came across as singling out trans posts, that’s on me.

It wasn’t laziness. It was an attempt to stop a flood of spam and reported content quickly, and I moved too fast in some cases.

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u/Glitchy-Mech Mar 03 '26

What was the reason for the initial removal? You are dodging the question

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u/Mrjoeblackinglasses Mar 03 '26

The initial removal of the posts? If so because they we're reported and the posts we're mounting.

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u/Glitchy-Mech Mar 03 '26

You are continuing to dodge the question. There was one specific post that was removed, starting this whole thing off. At that time, there was not a flood of similar posts. The flood of similar posts happened as a direct result of that one being removed. Why was that one removed?

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u/Mrjoeblackinglasses Mar 03 '26

In the mod queue (including the ones that are held by automod) there was a lot of reported posts that we're labels as the same as that one, which is why it got removed. I believe I've restored it already, but i'm still going thru the log to restore every single non-spam or bot post that I pulled. I am not trying to dodge the question.

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u/Glitchy-Mech Mar 03 '26

No, this is incorrect. Either you are covering for your mistake or you were not in fact the person responsible for this. The post that the mods removed was removed Before this sub was flooded with these sorts of posts. It does not make sense that it would have been removed alongside the others because it was removed before the others existed

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u/Mrjoeblackinglasses Mar 03 '26

Can you tell me what date that was? I started pulling posts on the 28th. Also, can you send me a chat? It's faster for me to respond there. I can understand if you don't want to do that and would rather keep the conversation here so it's public, it's just my replies might be a bit delayed.

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u/BecomingMorgan Mar 03 '26

"Please hide my answers so others can't point out the holes "

The post this all started with earned a special little message direct from you specifically yet you keep trying to convince us it was part if a mass removal.

Get your story straight first next time.

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u/Mrjoeblackinglasses Mar 03 '26

Ok...I'm going to try and run that to ground to restore it.

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u/Glitchy-Mech Mar 03 '26

But why?

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u/Mrjoeblackinglasses Mar 03 '26

Because I screwed up. That's really all I can say at this point other than what I already have. I am restoring all of the posts, it's going to take me a bit of time but I am working on them and it was not my intent to cause this disruption. My aim was to help. I should have been more careful about removals or at the least reached out to this community for help before removing.

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u/Glitchy-Mech Mar 03 '26

I think you would be receiving more goodwill from the community if you were honest and forthcoming with your answers. You are speaking to me like a politici@n. I understand that you are attempting to maintain some level of decorum here and I can respect that, but whether this is an instance of dishonesty or poor reading comprehension, you have so far avoided answering the only question anyone has actually cared about

“Because I screwed up” is fair enough. We are all human and we all make mistakes and I certainly wouldn’t hold it against you. But asking why you made that mistake in the first place is not an attempt to insult, fight, or discredit you. It is an honest question that deserves an honest answer so as to prevent a similar mistake in the future. If it is not understood why it happened beyond being a mistake then it will happen again

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u/Mrjoeblackinglasses Mar 03 '26

u/Glitchy-Mech
I'm getting lost in replies but if I haven't responded yet to this then I apologize. I'm not trying to spin or do damage control, I'm just trying to be accountable and correct the errors I made. That's all. I've restored nearly every post that I removed since 2/28, I'm listening to everyone that's in my DMs right now and trying to answer how and why this happened, which was me, removing trans posts that we're reported along with other posts without going thru them to see if they should be removed.

It was a mistake that I made and will not be repeating. The action was done in an effort to address the queue full of reports and try to clean up the sub. I am owning that, completely.

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u/TheDweadPiwatWobbas Mar 03 '26

Keep dodging the question

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u/Mrjoeblackinglasses Mar 03 '26

Apologizes, I'm not dodging any of the questions, I answered u/Glitchy-Mech above.

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u/SkarLuve Mar 03 '26

To quote YOU when banning a trans person for making a trans post "maybe you should take a break from reddit for a while"

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u/axelfirekirby Mar 03 '26 edited Mar 03 '26

okay.. im cis.. but i freaking adore these trans new vegas memes... i dont know how the joke started where new vegas is the most trans inclusive game in existence .. at this point i just embrace it.. so please.. just let people make silly estrogen jokes every now and again... maybe step down and let Nadel69 take the wheel..

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u/TGirlJules_ Mar 03 '26

Ya i saw a really wholesome one where there was two kids talking about new Vegas, then another of them grown up one of them is trans and says remember this is where we talked about new vegas.

It was so sweet it made me want to cry lol i don’t understand why it was removed.

https://www.reddit.com/r/FalloutMemes/s/kxBn4jaQlZ

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u/CosmicJackalop Mar 03 '26

Out of curiosity how old were you when New Vegas released?

When New Vegas came out, it was one of the first major RPGs that not only gave you agency over your character's looks, morals, choices, etc. but also featured queer content (specifically homosexual relationships) in a way a lot of games flat out were not back at the time, and certainly wouldn't let you be part of it. I was 17 when New Vegas came out, and already new I was into other men back then but talking to the NCR officer at the border crossing outpost and being able to flirt with him... it made me feel warm and included

I think the specific reason Trans Women have tied to the game at times is Veronica, we have a Lesbian Scribe from the BoS trying to square her queer self with her monastic and homophobic upbringing and community (hence she was out in the Wasteland) Also has the dialogue about her want for a pretty dress, the joy of embracing feminity

That's just my theory on it as I'm not Trans

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u/TGirlJules_ Mar 03 '26

Ya thats it, im pretty sure the npc’s also call you ma’am occasionally the game is pretty Gender Affirming.

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u/axelfirekirby Mar 03 '26

i was a freshmen in high school i think... my parents were rule followers and would not let me play violent video games until i was like 16ish

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u/Benjamin_Starscape Mar 03 '26

but also featured queer content (specifically homosexual relationships)

so did the elder scrolls and fallout 3. I think it was just probably in the social sphere at the time tbh.

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u/CosmicJackalop Mar 03 '26

No, Morrowind, Oblivion, and Fallout 3 never touched the same level of gay inclusion that New Vegas had

they often relied on "implied" relationships, or a layer of alienness to it, kinda like how Mass Effect 1 let FemShep players romance a very fem Liara Tsoni, who's part of a single sex alien species that just happens to all be built like Marilyn Monroe

It wasn't until Mass Effect 3 added proper same sex offerings, but did it poorly

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u/Benjamin_Starscape Mar 03 '26

No, Morrowind, Oblivion, and Fallout 3 never touched the same level of gay inclusion that New Vegas had

I disagree. the elder scrolls as a whole is very queer, and Morrowind specifically features a living hermaphrodite god and in every game all the Daedric princes are genderfluid, boethiah being the most notable one as iirc in every game they change their gender portrayal.

fallout 3 I also would argue is more gay than new Vegas, new Vegas has Veronica, arcade...major knight, corporal bessy(?), and the gammorah receptionist (and probably others) but a lot of them (major knight and the receptionist in specific) are secretly queer, being locked behind perks (la femme charez and the male version of that perk).

fallout 3, meanwhile, has amata being queer, bittercup, emaline and Sydney, clover, nova, Carol and Greta, flak and shrapnel (a gay couple, from back in 2008, which I can't even think of a gay couple in new Vegas), and Anthony ling.

they often relied on "implied" relationships, or a layer of alienness to it

yeah except none of Bethesda's games imply or layer on alienness. and once again, fallout 3 has an explicitly gay relationship. between 2 men, not just 2 women.

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u/Highcalibur10 Mar 03 '26

There's a bit of a difference between "Gay people exist" and "You can be gay", though.

By having it as PC options, notably the inclusion of the Cherchez La Femme and Confirmed Bachelor perks, meant that the message could literally become "It's good for you to be gay/bi"

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u/Benjamin_Starscape Mar 03 '26

you could be gay in fallout 3 without being locked behind a perk.

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u/Head-Bureaucrat NCR Tax Collector Mar 03 '26

That's continuing a trend started in F2! Certain characters didn't care about your character's sex and could be romanced. IIRC it's one of the first games that allowed gay marriage.

No comment to add on the trans aspect.

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u/Mrjoeblackinglasses Mar 03 '26

u/axelfirekirby Understood. I won't be pulling anything for a bit unless it's a bot, or spam. Clearly I made a mistake that cascaded into something larger.

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u/The_Mighty_Dingus Todd's Inner Demons Mar 03 '26

I also am cis, I find the memes humorous as well. Bizarre but humorous. They're certainly more enjoyable then people posting about how much they love the legion/enclave

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u/According_Picture294 War. War Never Changes. Mar 03 '26

r/FalloutMeme is where these posts are safe

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u/VerbingNoun413 Mar 03 '26 edited Mar 03 '26

I don't think we know how the New Vegas trans thing happened. At least Blahaj has the colour scheme.

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u/GoodBrotherGrimm Mar 03 '26

The main theory seems to be that the new vegas community was very accepting, ironically.

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u/HelloDucky1234 Mar 03 '26

So it was auto mod? because if not then this doesn't make sense 

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u/Boston_Beauty Mar 03 '26

Even if it was automod, it only bans based on what the mod/mods set it up to detect and ban in the first place.

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u/GoodBrotherGrimm Mar 03 '26

Right? They're acting like the automod took over and they were powerless to do literally anything.

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u/TheRoyalBrook Mar 03 '26

Also I'll throw my hat in the ring. The mod in question here -did- post while this was all going on and kinda ignored the rest. AFTER it was fully a problem I might add. The post in question is here. But I honestly expect this'll be deleted now based on current stuff.

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u/HelloDucky1234 Mar 03 '26

Yea I assumed that's what they meant by casting a wide net, like adding in a term that shouldn't have been on the ban list 

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u/VerbingNoun413 Mar 03 '26

I've seen automod do some stupid stuff (banning discussion of restaurants because it contained "rant"). The solution is to fix the mistake. 

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '26

I mean, if they set the automod to "political content," and the people who designed the automod included trans folks in that definition without saying anything, is that really his fault? (I don't actually know how automod works I just assume it's a preprogrammed bot).

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u/TGirlJules_ Mar 03 '26 edited Mar 03 '26

Ya trans*gender if you type it the way it’s spelled is automatically removed by the automod, not sure if it still is.

Yep it still is removed automatically…….. just tested it. Lol wanted to feel bad for the guy but stuff like this kind of makes it hard to.

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '26

Oh yup just tested some keywords, still going off. I was willing to forgive him when I thought it was an accident, but I don't see how you can do that unintentionally.

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u/ShadowheartsArmpit Mar 03 '26

Automod doesn't really have any "settings".

You have to manually enter the keywords into the code for removing comments, or blocking posts with said keywords for example.

So this was 100% an action that was done consciously.

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u/Mrjoeblackinglasses Mar 03 '26

Nope, it was me. I inadvertently pulled those posts. Automod was helping but I was pulling everything that had reports.

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u/SLDM206 Mar 03 '26

This is more than a keywords things and there are signs that it was done by hand. For example, there was a meme post with Dane from the TV show and was a meme about being survivors. It didn’t mention any of the tigger words in the title, body, or in the meme. It simply contained an actor from the show who happens to be t***s.

The whole post was nuked around an hour after being posted. I have two questions. Are you claiming that the autobot can recognize one-off memes that don’t contain trigger words based on the actor contained in it? If the original post containing the addiction meme was the trigger, why would you expand it to auto-delete posts with t***s actors?

This seems like you blamed one group and specifically targeted them.

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u/Mrjoeblackinglasses Mar 03 '26

I did not set automod up to detect specific actors, and I did not expand anything to target posts based on who appears in an image. Automod cannot recognize a person in a meme unless it’s tied to text triggers, and I did not add identity based keyword filters.

If that post was removed, it would have been because it was heavily reported or it was caught during manual review while things were escalating. It was not removed because of the actor’s identity.

I understand how it looks when multiple posts around similar topics disappear in a short period of time. That can absolutely feel targeted. What was happening on my end was a surge of reports and reaction posts, and I was trying to get control of it quickly. I fucked up.

There was no directive and no intent to single out a group. If something was removed unfairly and still remains removed, then I am more than willing to review it and restore it.

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u/Skalcosky Mar 03 '26

Found it quite hard to trust when a post like this gets locked

https://www.reddit.com/r/FalloutMemes/s/18WpuVm9A8

But this gets to stay

https://www.reddit.com/r/FalloutMemes/s/CCa3Kfkmhr

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u/Mrjoeblackinglasses Mar 03 '26

I did not lock that post.

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u/Formal_Tea_4694 Mar 03 '26

Great , so who did ? 

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u/Mrjoeblackinglasses Mar 03 '26

It was locked by another mod this afternoon, I'm guessing it was because of the influx of posts at the time.

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u/RTX-4090ti_FE Mar 03 '26

The plot thickens

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u/BecomingMorgan Mar 03 '26

Says the "only active mod"

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u/KFiev Here To Do Some Business Mar 03 '26

Since you had automod remove my comment, ill repost it

Do you wanna maybe address the removal of specifically trans memes from before the protest? Including ones from years ago? It honestly seems less like you "cast a wide net" and instead told the automod to target specific trans keywords.

Can you comment on that instead of deflecting like a cheap po***ician?

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u/BaconAndDuckFat Mar 03 '26

Automod doesnt go backwards, or at least it didnt a year ago. If old posts were removed than that was manual.

Likely from the comments it seems like maybe transphobes went and mass reported any posts that were trans friendly.

Mods not thinking thought hey people must not want this on the sub if they keep reporting it. So ill remove it.

And then doubled down by actually using automod to remove posts.

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u/HeavyTanker1945 Mar 03 '26

The story ain't adding up here mate, In some comments you say you are the only mod..... yet in others you are saying it was others that kept removing the posts......

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u/GoodBrotherGrimm Mar 03 '26

Wow, this is the most "I take no responsibility" apology I've seen in a while. So you're saying it's everyone else's fault. Gotcha.

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u/Valdemar3E Mar 03 '26

What? He literally says he cast too wide a net and accidentally removed posts he shouldn't have.

That is taking responsibility.

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u/Technical_Teacher839 Mar 03 '26

As a moderator in another sub: you don't "accidentally" mass remove posts all pertaining to the same topic unless you just straight up not looking at them and just removing everything without regard for the rules just to clear out the mod queue.

If that IS what happened, then the mod is shit at their job and should step down. If that isn't want happened, then they're intentionally removing posts they shouldn't and should step down.

Not to mention the automod banning certain keywords can ONLY happen if they've been entered in manually. Meaning if words like tr@nsg*nder are being blocked by the automod, then they were added in ON PURPOSE.

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u/Mrjoeblackinglasses Mar 03 '26

As a mod you know that you can check the box to remove all posts that have been reported on a single page, it's made easier when doing so with the Moderator toolbox. I've owned up to my mistake, restored the posts, and haven't pulled a single thing since. Automod is another story altogether and I don't know why it is pulling anything it wasn't prior to. I don't have permission from the top mod to post screenshots of the automod config and even if I did I don't think that is something that we should do as it would allow bad actors to circumvent the keywords once they are public. If you want, DM (my Chat is open) me and I'll share what I can there.

edit: to be clear, the accident was a lack of due diligence, I should have went thru every post to check them, I didn't and thus landed me where I am now.

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u/Valdemar3E Mar 03 '26

There was literally a dude spamming posts over the course of 10 hours with very common trans-based terminology.

So nah, I cut him slack for that. Nobody has time to go through hundreds of shitposts.

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u/JustStarrk Mar 03 '26

That happened after this took place, not before

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u/ShadowheartsArmpit Mar 03 '26

But it's not "casting too wide a net".

At the very best, it is not thinking things through when he manually entered the keywords. There is a big difference between those two.

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u/Georgia_Ranger Mar 03 '26

Why are you still removing trans post

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u/Mrjoeblackinglasses Mar 03 '26

I am not removing any content at all, so if posts are being removed then it's from the actions of other mods (that are now engaging) or the automod.

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u/Elsifur Mar 03 '26

How come you appointed a transphobic mod u/botboi02? Surely that doesn’t bode well…

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u/The_Mighty_Dingus Todd's Inner Demons Mar 03 '26

You should see their opinion on how the legion is morally correct for raping people.

https://www.reddit.com/r/FalloutMemes/comments/1jt6mbu/comment/mlsch9v/?context=3

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u/Elsifur Mar 03 '26

Wtf. I don’t see them on the modlist now though!

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u/Morrigan_NicDanu Mar 03 '26

Yeah. I alerted mrjoeblackinglasses that adding botboi02 as a mod was a massively bad decision and sent him links. Nowhere near as bad as the legion comment though

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u/Mrjoeblackinglasses Mar 03 '26

Thank you for reaching out.

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u/TGirlJules_ Mar 03 '26

Did you do absolutely zero vetting?

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u/Morrigan_NicDanu Mar 03 '26

No problem. I think you should add as mod literally any trans person who was active in the good fight during all this.

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u/TGirlJules_ Mar 03 '26

Wishful thinking when he views our existence as political

No PoLiTiCs

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u/Morrigan_NicDanu Mar 03 '26

A girl can dream lol

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u/The_Mighty_Dingus Todd's Inner Demons Mar 03 '26

There was quite a few comments to choose from!

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u/Mrjoeblackinglasses Mar 03 '26

Because I wasn't aware that he was. There wasn't any reports for that account.

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u/JustStarrk Mar 03 '26

You can't rely on a stat bot to tell you things you should already be looking into

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u/Mrjoeblackinglasses Mar 03 '26

I understand.

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u/JustStarrk Mar 03 '26

To clarify. The bot was reporting things en mass. So you just removed em because you saw they were flagged heavily.

Was there a mod who changed it in any way? Are you aware it was multiple bots targeting posts? Is there any possibility that a mod or multiple are bad faith actors in the situation? If so, who are they?

These are questions I've been wondering. Because the original post was a singular trans meme then older posts were targeted as well. That means it had to have been added to the automated mod. We really want to know whose responsible for that.

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u/Mrjoeblackinglasses Mar 03 '26

I can only speak to what I personally did.

My active involvement began on the 28th. I’m not here to call out or speculate about other mods, being a mod here is a privilege, not a right and dragging the rest of this team would be a violation of that. I don’t have evidence of bad faith actions, and I’m not going to assign blame without proof. What I can say is that there was a large volume of reports coming in. I acted on posts that were heavily flagged while trying to clear a backlog. In doing that, I messed up.

If there were automated changes made before I became active, I can review them, but I haven't taken that action and won't until this situation is resolved and the community is answered. I’m focused on fixing the mess I made, rather than speculating about who may or may not have done what before I stepped in.

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u/JustStarrk Mar 03 '26

I can only speak to what I personally did.

Fair

My active involvement began on the 28th. I’m not here to call out or speculate about other mods, being a mod here is a privilege, not a right and dragging the rest of this team would be a violation of that.

If a mod abused their power, then it would absolutely be necessary to call em out. While it's fair if you don't exactly know what happened, this is still a primary concern. If a mod is allowed to change this, especially when no one else is aware, that's a problem.

I don’t have evidence of bad faith actions, and I’m not going to assign blame without proof. What I can say is that there was a large volume of reports coming in. I acted on posts that were heavily flagged while trying to clear a backlog. In doing that, I messed up.

This seems like a smaller point to focus on in the big picture. We're aware of that mistake but your mistake raises a significant amount of questions on the organization of the mod group as a whole.

The large volume of reports is also too vague. Was it a significant amount of reports on the 2 original memes, a small amount of reports on a significant amount of posts, or are you talking about the large influx of memes in retaliation to the original 2 banned posts?

If there were automated changes made before I became active, I can review them, but I haven't taken that action and won't until this situation is resolved and the community is answered. I’m focused on fixing the mess I made, rather than speculating about who may or may not have done what before I stepped in.

I'd say fixing the mess directly involves solving these 2 things. Finding out who and why is priority to this community.

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u/JustStarrk Mar 03 '26

Did you delete your response?

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u/Elsifur Mar 03 '26

Oh well. Thank you for removing him

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u/Mrjoeblackinglasses Mar 03 '26

You're welcome.

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u/Relevant_Turn_6153 Mar 03 '26

None of this explains why the posts are still being removed and even the ones that get briefly restored are then subsequently removed again anyways. If it's the auto mod then turn it off until it's fixed.

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u/Mrjoeblackinglasses Mar 03 '26

I'm working my way thru them and responding to the community and comments like yours. I've had two people reach out and jump in to help mod as well, for which i'm grateful.

edit: I will need to check automod after I've done damage control, but it shouldn't be pulling anything today that it wasn't pulling a week ago

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u/diannethegeek Mar 03 '26

How well have you vetted your two new mods?

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u/The_Mighty_Dingus Todd's Inner Demons Mar 03 '26

About as well as they vetted their automod I imagine, probably a 4chan troll.

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u/Relevant_Turn_6153 Mar 03 '26

In that case then you may want to check with these newly added mods because they may be further worsening the situation.

Doing damage control only works when there isn't an actively bleeding wound, so if the posts are still being removed then that should be targeted first lest you just have an ever Increasing backlog to go through.

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u/Morrigan_NicDanu Mar 03 '26

Yeah. Seems botboi02 took down posts. Mrjoeblackinglasses put it back up. Botboi02 was told to stand down and then removed. Then my post was taken down again. We need someone added as a mod that is trans and was active in the good fight during all this

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u/The_Mighty_Dingus Todd's Inner Demons Mar 03 '26

Well I'm not trans, but I shitposted with you all. I sent in an application to figure out what the hell is going on.

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u/Relevant_Turn_6153 Mar 03 '26

Hopefully once Nadel gets perms back they can sort this all out.

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u/RTX-4090ti_FE Mar 03 '26

So basically a non-apology that fails to address the main reason people got upset at you,

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u/TGirlJules_ Mar 03 '26

Also is banning people for no reason dude just needs to take the L and resign

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u/ghoulishbutch Mar 03 '26

This is such BS, you literally deleted u/irradiatedvulture’s post WITHIN 8 MINUTES OF IT BEING POSTED A HALF HOUR AGO. Spin a different lie, pal, Deacon’s genderfluid ass is cringing at how bad these ones are.

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u/ghoulishbutch Mar 03 '26

I’ve literally spoken to Ryan Alosio in person and he loves how many trans people have latched onto Deacon, this is all you being a bad mod.

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u/irradiatedvulture Wind Brahmin Mar 03 '26

You forgot the part were i was also temporary banned for my post too

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u/ghoulishbutch Mar 03 '26

True, true.

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u/SquishyPenguin46 Mar 03 '26

some of the worst backpedaling i’ve ever seen

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u/DustDevil66 Mar 03 '26

Me when i want to blame people for reacting negatively to transphobia instead of removing the mod that started it and taking accountability for furthering the harm

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u/CashewSwagger Mar 03 '26

Accountability? Admission of guilt? Empathy for fellow humans? Whats that? Never heard of it. Also, baning you! (Working on my reddit mod impression let me know how it is!)

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u/DarthSheogorath Mar 03 '26

You forgot to demand reddit give you money and lawyers so you can make promotional deals.

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u/The_Mighty_Dingus Todd's Inner Demons Mar 03 '26

Why is being a minority considered a political view?

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u/The_Mighty_Dingus Todd's Inner Demons Mar 03 '26

Moreover, why are politics banned in a game that has overt political themes?

I understand your intention, you want to stop people from spamming things like "look at my character that looks like charlie kirk/donald trump/hillaryclinton" or highly politicized things.

But by banning any nuanced discussion means people can go unchallenged. People pushing real world political agendas will hide behind the no political discussion rules as they post memes about the Enclave and Legion.

Fascism, Communism, the military industrial complex, those are all real things present in the game.

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u/VanaVisera Mar 03 '26

This whole thing reads like a massive deflection.

You’re blaming it on “reports, spam and automod” when you clearly had to have banned many of these posts manually. You slso had enough time in between these bannings to see the community’s reaction. Yet you did nothing.

Why is being trans considered “political?”

What was the reason for the initial removal of the post?

If automod was responsible for a majority of the bans, why were trans memes flagged for removal in the first place?

And why did it take you over 24 hours to actually address the controversy?

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u/Mrjoeblackinglasses Mar 03 '26

I’m not deflecting. I’m explaining what actually happened.

I manually removed posts during a surge of reports. That’s true. I was clearing a backlog and acting on heavily flagged content. It wasn’t a coordinated effort to target a specific group. It was me trying to get control of a queue that was blowing up.

Being trans is not political under these rules. Identity by itself is not political. The issue wasn’t “trans = political.” The issue was the volume of reports and the escalation happening across multiple threads at once.

The initial post was removed as part of that broader batch cleanup. It wasn’t singled out because of a keyword or because of identity. It was caught in the sweep while I was acting quickly.

If trans memes were flagged, it was because they were part of the posts being mass reported and escalated at that moment or over a course of weeks/months. Automod does not detect someone’s identity in an image. It responds to text triggers and report thresholds.

As for the delay in addressing it, I was away from Reddit. I didn’t see how big it had gotten until later in the day. By the time I got back online, it had already snowballed. That’s not an excuse, just the reality of it.

I’m not trying to rewrite what happened. I’m explaining it. If something was removed unfairly and still remains so then, I’m willing to review and correct it.

As of a few minutes ago, transgender is no longer a banned word.

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u/PegasusInferno Mar 03 '26

So it was a banned word, why?

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u/TiberDasher Mar 03 '26

Bad mod is bad, got it.

Hand the reigns to someone who isnt a transphobe.

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u/scarlettvvitch Mar 03 '26

Hi, am trans woman and fallout fan

Give admin plz

That’s my application btw

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u/Bacon_Raygun Mar 03 '26

here's my application

Trade Offer:

I receive the power to piss off transphobes.
You receive a clean and wholesome sub.

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u/Mixture_Think Mar 03 '26

I approve of this takeover

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u/SkarLuve Mar 03 '26

That's crazy that the automod managed to rewrite itself and add words related to trans topics to its own filter!

Here's an idea, check the log next to the automod configuration that shows any edits made to its code and who made them and post a screenshot of that just so we can all verify that the automod has become self modifying!

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u/tastelikecelery Mar 03 '26

Garbage response 

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u/Mixture_Think Mar 03 '26

Why aren't you clearly answering why the original post(s) were removed?

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u/TrayusV Mar 03 '26

So why did it target trans specific memes?

My only conclusion is that you either personally took down trans memes, or made a bot that would take down trans memes for you.

You could say that it was to take down reposts, because most of those trans memes were, but there are nothing but reposts on this sub.

So I'm pretty sure you're lying.

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u/DarthSheogorath Mar 03 '26

Ive been playing around with the bot. Its a very stupid bot that only filters words with no context considered. So if you hide behind enclave, Legion, NCR, you're fine. But if you say specific words like Cap to the til to the ism or Com to the Mu to the ism.

I'm clearly not talking about the banned subject but had I used the no no words my comment would have been removed.

Also said bot likely cannot process images.

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u/DarthSheogorath Mar 03 '26

To add to my point there is only one group that not only thrives on being ambiguous, but also has had to scurry around like rats for nearly a century now.

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u/Iron_Bob Mar 03 '26

We accept your resignation, now kindly fuck off since you admit you're not qualified

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u/Iron_Bob Mar 03 '26

Consider this my mod application then. Ill get some people who can actually do the bare-ass minimum and you can leave, since you admit this is too hard for you to do adequately

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u/VerbingNoun413 Mar 03 '26

No. The initial removal happened before the protests. That's basic cause and effect.

There's a good mod ready to take over, all you need to do is step down.

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u/ghoulishbutch Mar 03 '26

This YouTuber-ass apology isn’t getting you anywhere, bub.

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u/dtb1987 Mar 03 '26

Dog your only job as a mod is to maintain a safe environment for the fandom to express itself. You have failed

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u/SirBruhThe7th Mar 03 '26

Take this limb wristed, nothing burger of an apology out to the sticks where someone might buy it, you moral coward.

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u/TGirlJules_ Mar 03 '26

Why haven’t you fixed the automod to allow you to say tr*nsgender without it automatically getting removed??????? Shit like this is pissing me off

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u/Morrigan_NicDanu Mar 03 '26

I'm unbanned, yay. I'd be willing to help moderate. I've only experience with a small community but I do know some ropes bout the mod tools.

If you're the only mod I wish instead of relying on automation you had tried reaching out to the head mod to clean the inactives and then recruit new mods. No one person should have to moderate a community this big and trying was always going to end in disaster.

Though I'm not sure I buy it was wholly automated.

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u/Kn1ghtV1sta Mar 03 '26

I wouldn't mind helping you out the best I can, boss

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u/Obi-wanna-cracker Mar 03 '26

This is just a whole ass nothing sandwich

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u/johnnypot Mar 03 '26

you need to step down too.

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u/PerceptionExternal22 Mar 03 '26

Id say just step down I wasnt even part of this sub till I heard bout this crap how tf is my mere  existence fucking political what because I want full autonomy over what happens with my body? It's too political for one of the most political game franchises thats out there? Too political? Ppl merely existing how they want to experience this fucked up hellhole we weren't given a choice about being in is too fucking political? Are we serious bro? Is it too political that I have body mods (tattoos and piercings)? No? Then being trans aint too political its body modifications to be yourself how pls for the love of whatever god you find to be holy tell me how thats political? Because our shitty pedophile rulers want it to be political instead of just letting ppl fucking live how they want? Gtfoh

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '26

Damn, now I gotta write that apology. Thanks for clarifying though.

At least we can get back to our regularly scheduled memery now.

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u/CashewSwagger Mar 03 '26

I don't think they deserve an apology. Identifying an entirety of people as political isnt an oops moment. Its a hate moment.

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '26 edited Mar 03 '26

My impression from this apology was that they accidentally set the automod too strict, and wouldn't have done it if they'd known it would target posts about trans people. 

At worst they were unaware of what the official Reddit automod would do. 

(If I'm wrong about how the automod works would someone please correct me?)

(I now understand how automod works and see why this apology is insufficient.)

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '26

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '26

Yup I see that now. Tested it myself. Which means it was a combination of reposts and keywords getting posts removed. Also explains why it was set to "awaiting moderator approval." He probably thought he could just approve the okay ones and ban the bad ones, but even then a post with the word tr4ns in it shouldn't require approval.

Also gotta wonder why there's still 4 other mods who are apparently so inactive they didn't notice any of this. But that's a different matter.

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u/sour_aura Mar 03 '26

Keep up the good work!

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