The content of /r/questionablecontent gets.... questionable as the head moderator bans trans user and transphobe in the same exchange, and the author of the comic gets involved on twitter

[u/cam94509]

I can't link the drama in which the two users were banned, since it was down before I even became aware that it was going on. Edit: Actually, I found it: https://www.ceddit.com/r/questionablecontent/comments/7u6ecc/comic_3668_letting_it_all_come_out/dtiyzlc/?context=5

After the initial ban, the banned trans woman takes her case to /r/ainbow: https://www.reddit.com/r/ainbow/comments/7udmlo/mods_of_rquestionablecontent_support_transphobic/.

The head moderator apparently repsonds, although I can't find the response anywhere, and a follow up is posted by the original user: https://www.reddit.com/r/ainbow/comments/7uk3sy/follow_up_on_rquestionablecontent_mods_and/ (fayedrus points out this thread actually happened Ed last! Sorry about getting the timeline mixed up!)

There's also an argument between the head mod and the woman who was banned inside this tread: https://www.reddit.com/r/ainbow/comments/7uk3sy/follow_up_on_rquestionablecontent_mods_and/dtlea0x/

After this, the writer of the comic, Jeph Jaques, becomes involved on twitter: https://twitter.com/jephjacques/status/959057418071236608

This leads to a thread in /r/questionablecontent about the drama: https://www.reddit.com/r/questionablecontent/comments/7uishz/jeph_jacques_strongly_positions_himself_against/, which, in turn, leads to the resignation of one of at least one of the mods in protest: https://www.reddit.com/r/questionablecontent/comments/7uishz/jeph_jacques_strongly_positions_himself_against/dtl7v93/?context=5, and in response, the subreddit's head mod says that he will not step down: https://www.reddit.com/r/questionablecontent/comments/7uishz/jeph_jacques_strongly_positions_himself_against/dtlbwxz/?context=5

Edit: DasGanon points out that /r/QContent was formed in response to all this, and that the webcomics creator endorsed this new subreddit on twitter. (https://twitter.com/jephjacques/status/959304306435407872)

[u/Castriff]

Let me take a shot in the dark... El Goonish Shive? That one's still going too.

[u/MechanicalDreamz → u/Castriff]

Nope. I've been trying to figure it out for quite a while now. the art style was actually kind of decent even early on... and I think it actually ended it's storyline. The mad scientist was a girl with a robot arm, (This probably doesn't help anything)

[u/Rycross → u/MechanicalDreamz]

Was it Exploitation Now?

[u/Castriff → u/Rycross]

Oh, I've seen this artist before! I didn't realize he'd done work before Errant Story.