Used to have an extension like this until I noticed people were marking names as anti-trans simply because they didn't like them and realized no one even needed to submit any proof/source, so I ended up uninstalling
Is it only me that just hates the idea of "marking" someone up-front, rather than deriving what you think of them from their actions? My point being that the way we interpret things should be "this thing is bad" -> "the person is bad", not the inverse "this person is marked as bad" -> "they said/did something" -> "that thing must be bad".
I feel like an extension like this is built around facilitating the latter: Judging the content or actions based on whether the sender is tagged as "good" or "bad", rather than looking at the words and actions themselves.
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wander1236@sh.itjust.works · 51 pts · 49d
The perils of community-sourced data
CazzoBuco@lemmy.world · 45 pts · 49d
Used to have an extension like this until I noticed people were marking names as anti-trans simply because they didn't like them and realized no one even needed to submit any proof/source, so I ended up uninstalling
thebestaquaman@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 49d
Is it only me that just hates the idea of "marking" someone up-front, rather than deriving what you think of them from their actions? My point being that the way we interpret things should be "this thing is bad" -> "the person is bad", not the inverse "this person is marked as bad" -> "they said/did something" -> "that thing must be bad".
I feel like an extension like this is built around facilitating the latter: Judging the content or actions based on whether the sender is tagged as "good" or "bad", rather than looking at the words and actions themselves.
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 49d
I'ma be real, it's highly concerning to install something like that in the first place. I can't place my finger on it tho why.
Cause it sounds like a good idea on paper. But my brain keeps going to toxic positivity and that doesn't feel entirely right?
Squibbles@lemmy.ca · 26 pts · 49d
He was pro transitioning himself from alive to dead so there's that I guess
lemmysmash@piefed.social · 15 pts · 49d
atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone · 12 pts · 49d
he killed Hitler! He got the pro-trans tag from killing such an evil transphobe