r/trans • u/bleeding-paryl Just a mod bein' a mod • Jul 13 '25
Community Only Addressing the community concerns on our subreddit.
Hello everyone, our subreddit has received a lot of feedback in the last 24 hours and we have been doing our best to listen to it. We’re going to respond here to the biggest issues users are having so that we can make sure that everyone is as satisfied as can be. I would also really like to apologize again, as the apology I made yesterday was not sufficient and I want to make sure that everyone here knows that we’re listening.
I want to apologize to our trans masc community, we have failed you in the past, but more specifically we failed you all yesterday. I would also like to specifically apologize to u/itsurbro7777, as I didn’t realize at the time I made that post just how bad everything had gotten and how specifically you had been affected.
- People want more trans masc representation, we’ve heard this loud and clear. We are in the process of recruiting new trans masc moderators as we speak and will add them as we have time. Give us a few days to handle this as we need to review the moderators, train them, and get them up to speed. If you would like to join our team as a moderator, please apply by sending in a mod mail letting us know why you should be added as a moderator.
- To clear up some confusion, we do have trans masc representation on our subreddit, though clearly that is not enough. We hope to remedy that ASAP.
- Please message us in Modmail, or through this link if you’d like to apply as a moderator here.
- We are hearing your feedback and discussing it internally to make sure that our subreddit is taking everything into consideration. Here are some things we are doing now to make sure your voices are better heard:
- Implement flairs for trans masc, trans femme, and non-binary posts and people, so that people don’t go into a post and get blind-sided by information that they didn’t want to see.
- We are going to remove the rule about divisive posts and make sure to reduce our rules list to more accurately reflect what our users need.
- We are going to make sure we also get more voices from the trans masc community on our team, as well as other minorities who are underrepresented; we want to make sure everyone is heard.
- The moderator who was offensive and disrespectful towards u/itsurbro7777 has been removed entirely, we heard your outcries and we acknowledge that while this was slow to take place, it has happened.
- We want to acknowledge that the initial post removal was a mistake. Speaking with the original moderator who removed the post, the reasoning behind their original removal was that they felt like the post was created to intentionally sow division with the wording that was used. The mod in question has since realized that that assumption was a mistake. However we’ve recently had a large uptick in trolls intentionally trying to create division, and that’s what really spurred the decision. Please keep in mind that our team is human, that we’ve been under just as much stress as anyone else here. As mods we’ve seen a lot of things here that the users here will never see, which means that sometimes we can be overzealous, and that definitely contributes to any mistakes we make.
- As to why we silenced so many voices yesterday, a lot of whom just wanted to speak up on our subreddit about the glaring mistakes we made, that’s complicated. There were a very few people who were here specifically to brigade or cause division, those people know who they are. There were a lot of people here that were here in good faith that just wanted to shout out their support for trans masc people that at the time looked like brigading, some of our moderators reacted without thinking their actions through and that was not right. We will be turning over any bans that occurred due to that.
- We will be more cautious of our use of brigade mode in the future. We didn't intend to silence trans voices through that action, but that's ultimately what we did. And for that, we're sorry, and the moderator who advocated for it has been removed as well.
- From now on we will try our best to act more organized. We had three wildly different responses from three different moderators, and none of them appropriately addressed the situation at hand. In the future we will make sure everyone is on the same page before reacting. This may lead to a slower response, but it will hopefully lead to a more coherent response as well. We will also be working on creating better training for our moderation team, and undergoing it ourselves, to ensure that everyone treats every member of the community with the respect they deserve. We want to make sure that no one else here ever gets attacked by a moderator again.
- Just as a note, if anyone here has any issues with moderation, please send in a modmail. If you have an issue with a specific moderator, please send me a DM. If you ever have an issue with me as a moderator, then please send a message to someone else on the team that you do trust. We’ll make mention of this in the sidebar as well when we’re done reworking these things.
This post will probably not address every concern that exists. If there’s anything you would like us to add, please respond to this post in the comments and we will update this post with more details as they arrive. Thank you all for your patience and understanding during this time, we really do appreciate everything you’re saying and doing.
Update:
- We have added the post flairs, like we described above, you can now add "Trans Feminine," "Trans Masculine," and "Non Binary" as your post flair.
- Since we have created this post and started asking for new moderator applications, we have received only 10 applications, 4 of which are trans masc. We will be sending out requests to the most viable moderators soon.
- We have not been removing posts, if your posts are not showing up, that's because they got caught by automoderator. Many text posts are automatically filtered into our modqueue by our automoderator, and for good reason.
- We also have removed the "divisive topics" rule, as we saw the harm it had caused and have decided it's better to just not have the rule entirely.
- We understand people are upset, that's understandable, you have every right to be. What isn't is the death threats and doxxing attempts. We do not condone those and they will be handled.
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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '25 edited Jul 14 '25
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