LGBT

Sry just logging on now. I banned a couple of the transphobes, and the main one banned himself before I got a chance to do so.

@TheConquestOfBed@lemmy.ml I made a bunch of recommendations for how to fix this systemically in our admin chat. Some of them here:

1. We need to ban transphobes here faster (no bigotry is already in our sidebar, but for some reason transphobia isn't explicitly named, so I'm gonna try to add that).
2. We should consider people's activity outside this instance when deciding whether to ban. Looking at it now, its silly to not consider a person's full internet persona. Not that we need to have foreknowledge of what they've done, but when things are brought to our attention, we need to act on them.
3. Me and nutomic need to do less moderating, and more coding. Even tho this is the dev instance, we need to have some more separation between ppl coding for lemmy, and those moderating it. Moderating is a much worse use of our time anyway than coding or fixing things.
4. We need to appoint more moderators, because its clear these things weren't attended to quickly enough.

Also I apologize for not getting to these things quickly enough, and want to thank you, @seanchai@lemmygrad.ml , @AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml, and everyone else for your work in that thread yesterday.