I am stepping down from my position as moderator on the MOGAI Wiki and its associated socials. I will also likely be abandoning this account, and leaving it up as an archive. I have not made this decision lightly. In this post I’d like to address two things:
The situation with the MOGAI Wiki involving term removal policies, clarifying some points, and apologizing for the parts I played in the situation going so terribly wrong.
My personal feelings, and my reasonings for stepping away from all of this.
(Please note that bolded text is simply to make skimming easier and help with accessibility, not necessarily for emphasis.)
The idea to do away with term removals was a mistake, and so was how we went about broaching the subject with our community. As I have stepped down as moderator, I cannot speak for the rest of the mod team, and am speaking from only my own perspective. I really had no idea how even the idea of this policy would affect people. When we were discussing it as a mod team, I was only thinking about it from a Wiki perspective. Many Wikis do not require term removal, and we needed to find a way to reduce the strain on our mod team. We may have had 7 moderators before all of this, but many of us were very limited in our abilities to contribute, and the strain on the Wiki was becoming more obvious by the day.
Things weren’t working the way we had been doing them. We had requests for terms to be removed that never got followed up on, posts from accounts asking that their terms not be uploaded to our wiki that we were never made aware of, and not enough manpower to go looking for them or manage to keep up with removals with the way we were managing that system. We were overwhelmed with that, and everything else that came with the sudden spike in attention and criticism we had after FANDOM brought the Wiki’s existence into the spotlight. We knew something needed to change. Nobody could come up with a good solution that we could see working long-term, and we just kept coming back to getting rid of term removals entirely.
In all of our discussion of the potential policy change in the mod chat, I did not consider the perspective that coinings and flags are a person’s art, and that completely getting rid of the option for term removal would be removing people’s control over their own art. Especially when it comes to LGBT+/MOGAI identity, lots of the art created around that is often deeply personal. The idea of losing control over those things must have felt so awful and scary, and I’m very sorry for the part I played in that.
In the interest of full disclosure: I was the one who suggested that we encourage/require people to give alternative ideas if they voted to keep the policy of allowing for term removal. My intent was not to limit discussion, but I know intent only means so much in situations like this. My decision to suggest that was based on a fear that we would have a majority vote to keep the policy, but not receive any workable suggestions on alternatives. That would have put us back at square one, the community would have voted to keep a policy that we did not have the ability to enforce, and we would be continuing to fail our users and other members of the MOGAI community. I completely understand now how that part of the poll came across as limiting discussion/input on the policy, especially now that I have a deeper understanding of just how many users were likely too afraid to bring their concerns up with mods in the first place. I’m sorry for that, too.
When I started to see the tumblr posts about the situation, I realized what a mistake it was to suggest the policy change, and especially the way we went about doing it. Some of the mods tried to pivot conversation in the server to workshopping a workable alternative. I tried to assure people that no decisions were being made right away, and suggested that people step away from the situation, because things were getting heated.
I honestly don’t know everything that went down. I was present for only very little of the actual conversation after the announcement was made. When I woke up, the announcement/poll had already been made and the reaction from the community both in the server and on tumblr had already started.
Many people were under the (incorrect, but in hindsight completely understandable) impression that we had concretely decided on getting rid of the option for term removal. My post on the Wiki tumblr account was from the perspective of somebody who had very little context for what conversation was going on, and was trying to clarify what I knew about the mod discussions that happened before the announcement and poll were posted. I was trying to, once again, reassure people that we had not made a decision, and were open to all the suggested alternative solutions.
Almost immediately that post was met with hostility and vitriol. I recognize now that so much of that was pent up frustration with the way this Wiki has been run over a very long period of time. In the moment, though, I didn’t have that context, I wasn’t aware of the problems people have had with the Wiki or its moderators in the past. Because I had made the post, it felt extremely personal. Because I had done so much behind-the-scenes work, seeing people saying the mod team wasn’t doing enough hurt. I realized that I was starting to have a trauma response to the situation, so I told the rest of the team I was stepping away for a few hours, and encouraged them to do the same.
I’m not going to get into the nitty-gritty of it all, in part because I only know bits and pieces of what happened after I stepped away. But I’ve seen the DMs, and I saw several of the reblogs and posts from Kris. Part of why I am stepping down as mod is that I do not want to be associated with that. It was inappropriate, and a complete mishandling of the situation. I cannot work with someone who reblogs aggressive responses to negative replies on our posts, someone who repeatedly says he is going to step away and then gets right back into the situation and escalates it, someone who DMs a mod who left in a panic in response to a difficult situation with passive-aggression and guilt tripping. I care so much about the people I worked alongside these last several weeks, including Kris, but I cannot condone that behavior. I hope everyone affected by that is able to get the space that they need and a chance to recover and heal.
Another reason for leaving is that I can’t subject myself to being a part of something with so much reach and so much baggage that it causes this kind of response when a mistake is made. Some of the replies to my post on the wiki tumblr were vicious. They were hard to read, and impacted me quite a bit, in part because of past trauma, but also because it’s hard to read a bunch of people telling you to go fuck yourself. I put a lot into that Wiki in my short time as a mod, and before as a contributor, and putting that much of yourself into something and then being told you’re not doing enough and that you deserve terrible things doesn’t feel good. I understand where so much of that anger was coming from. I understand how people react when they feel cornered. At the same time, some of the things that were said in response to that post were not okay, and I will not continue doing something that carries the possibility of subjecting myself to that again.
Honestly, though, my biggest reason for leaving is that this situation bled over into my personal life. I will not get into details of what happened, but I knew immediately that my relationships with my loved ones are far more important to me than the Wiki, or this blog. As much as the MOGAI Wiki has meant to me over these past few months, as much effort as I’ve put into contributing and moderating it, it wasn’t even a question. I’ve lost any interest I might’ve had in staying.
I don’t know what will happen to the Wiki. A hiatus is being considered, I think. I know the mod team has pretty much unanimously agreed to not get rid of term removal policies. I don’t know how much weight my even saying that carries at this point, but I hope it helps at least a little with the fears this whole situation has brought up for people.
I am sorry for the parts I played in this situation going so poorly. Please take care of yourselves. I’ll be making a second post shortly, detailing some more logistics-related things to my departure.
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FANDOM LGBTA Wiki & Ezgender/Microlabel Wiki Archives
This is not an exhaustive list. Many other things from the LGBTA and other wikis were archived as well. This is just the list of things that I personally archived. I also archived the history of some images and flags, but due to the way site archivers work, those had to be in the form of screenshots, and those screenshots only exist in the MOGAI.miraheze discord server. Please do not hound the MOGAI moderators or users for access to these, they have a lot of work on their plates right now.
For any of these terms that are clearly linked to an active social media of the creator, please get their permission before posting the term somewhere else.
I wish I could have organized these better, but I just don’t have it in me anymore. I’m sorry. Best of luck to anyone who wishes to put in that work. After this posts, I will edit in links to web archives of the full post, just in case my blog ever goes down for good. Please wait to reblog it until those have been added.
You will need to copy+paste most of the links. I do not have it in me to go through to turn them all into hyperlinks.
If there are brackets (<>) around a link, ignore those, they are not part of the link. I originally formatted this to send the links into discord, and putting brackets around links <like this> prevents the link from giving a preview, which would have flooded the channel and made it hard to navigate.
If you are using this as reference for term archival, whether for a wiki or some other kind of archive, please keep in mind: These may not be initial coinings. Sometimes terms are re-coined by people who weren't aware of other earlier coinings. Make sure to search for other possible mentions of these terms elsewhere as well.
There will be errors in this list. I may have put erroneous bullet points where they’re not needed, or missed some. There may be irrelevant notes alongside some of the links. I may have mislabeled some things (though I really hope I didn’t). I originally planned to transfer all of these, and the links other archived, into a large and organized google doc. I can’t bring myself to do that anymore. If anybody ever does something like that, feel free to send me the info. Maybe someday I’ll log back in and be able to add a link to that to this post.
There may be triggering topics that are not warned for. I tried to include warnings next to ones relating to the more egregeous topics or common triggers, but I almost definitely missed some. Please use caution when checking links for terms you aren’t already familliar with.
non-gametes-based reproduction, gametes-based reproduction, traits related to gametes-based reproduction system, hormones related to gbrs, secondary traits related to gbrs, group of traits related to gbrs, change of traits related to gbrs (unclear to me if any of this is actually coining, or if this is just a collection of terms someone put together, i'm really kind of just skimming stuff to try and get to as much as i can): <https://archive.md/ozMv5> / <https://archive.md/39Lac>
Shine/spark/glint/lights/flickself pronouns and flag: https://archive.md/S8M1L
Aphileflexible: <https://archive.md/Ubr2s>
Gendershadow: <https://archive.md/72MfP>
/matu / mad at the universe), /naa / not asking anyone tone indicators: <https://archive.md/xF6Fb>
Alterhuman page mirror (my main reason for adding this here is to have a place to refer to or cite that defines the term "folkel" as i'm noticing that term in several of these posts i'm archiving): <https://archive.md/02F4z#selection-6067.0-6077.355>
Nullushomois, Nullafeminais, and flags: <https://archive.md/0fpmN> / <https://archive.md/X95lp>
Foggygender flag and symbol: <https://archive.md/jlkVB> / <https://archive.md/60Nz5>
Spookymonthgender, Spookykidsgender (Skid and Pump), Hatzgender (Hatzgang), TEOTUgender (The Eyes of the Universe): <https://archive.md/Ek2W6> / <https://archive.md/3Ynms> / <https://archive.md/gM2y8>
Domesticat Gender System / Domesticatsystem (Some links mention the Felinus System / Felinus Gender System, with the context that some tried to claim one term was a subsystem of the other, but it is not): <https://archive.md/3323q> / <https://archive.md/TkHR8> / <https://archive.md/UnmSP> / <https://archive.md/IBmGQ> / <https://archive.md/JD1Hx> / <https://archive.md/xR1vy>
Demigenderflux flag and symbol: <https://archive.md/5KZ3j>
Unnamed term for atlerhuman / otherkin with exomemories: <https://archive.md/TYZRk>
A very large thread with several coinings, including but not limited to Coffeesexual, Coffee Bean System / CB system, Celestesexual Spec / Celeste Spec / Celestesexual Spectrum, Sunrisexual, Sunsetsexual, Dusksexual, Twilightsexual, Dawnsexual, Celestesexual, Lunarsexual, Owosexual, Allogender (or at least a flag for it): <https://archive.md/BlWJ9> / <https://web.archive.org/web/20211123051542/https://lgbta.fandom.com/f/p/4400000000000046316>
Forum post addressing Aqueerplatonic, Aqueerplatonic spectrum, Aqpflux, An-aesthetic, Anaesthetic spectrum, Analterous spectrum, Analtflux, Ansensual, Asenflux, Anplatonic, Anqueerplatonic, Aqpvague, An-alterous, Analtvague, Apothialterous, Apothiaesthetic, Apothiqueerplatonic, Apresalterous, Apresaesthetic, Apresplatonic, Apresqueerplatonic, Myrsensual, Myraesthetic, Myralterous, Myrqueerplatonic, Cupioalterous (There really is not much to this post other than mentioning the terms and claiming to have coined many or all of them through page creation): <https://archive.md/RiT6X>
Cupioplatonic (Note that the first flag listed for this identity is a misidentified
Cupioromantic flag. There is a comment on the archive of the main page that can be seen pointing out the issue): <https://archive.md/WrY8w> / <https://archive.md/GvkTL> / <https://archive.md/UmE68> / <https://archive.md/XuD9d> / <https://archive.md/MLiXV>
Romance-Indifferent (cw homophobic page vandalism visible on first link with mention of a common trigger): <https://archive.md/AmfA4> / <https://archive.md/OdzOr> / <https://archive.md/dQUdN> / <https://archive.md/rIera>
Explanation of several forms of Attraction by system-lgbt (In this case Sexual, Romantic, Sensual, Erotic, Amorous, Platonic, Queerplatonic / Quaziplatonic / Quirkyplatonic / Qplatonic, Social, Familial, Noetic, Polyamorous / Poly-amorous, Doraric, Fluitic , Spirituic / Spiritual, Guardian, Grace, Xenia / Xenial, and Idealistic) Possible coining for Xenial Attraction: <https://archive.md/5I5AY>
*(NOTE: many of these next chunk of terms were coined off-wiki. I have not archived those coins. The purpose of these archives is to preserve the on-wiki coinings of flags for these terms, and to archive anything that did not have external citations.)*
Parental Attraction Flags (This term was coined off-site. I have not archived those links. These archives are to preserve flag history): <https://archive.md/K1erc> / <https://archive.md/YSyEz> / <https://archive.md/bHdRf>
Flags for Tutelary / Dominant / Protective Attraction, and Cedural / Submissive Attraction: <https://archive.md/Xd5Xj>
English Translation of <https://archive.md/VoNuW> (The links seem to be different, but the topic and dates mentioned seem to line up. I do not speak Spanish well enough to comment on the accuracy of this translation), which is cited on the pages for Cedural / Submissive, and Potential Attraction / Bonding Attraction. It also covers terms equivalent or similar to Sexual, Sensual, Amorous / Romantic, Alterous / Qplatonic /
A comic depicting forms of attraction that was cited on the page for Platonic Attraction, also mentions Sexual Attraction, Romantic Attraction, Crushes, Squishes, Sensual Attraction, and Aesthetic Attraction: <https://archive.md/cjjLm>
Apressexual (Archived this one a little differently to avoid having to archive a page vandalism with a slur. The history page is archived, showing when the page was created, and I archived the rollback to its original state and the edit after it): <https://archive.md/dJ5jP> / <https://archive.md/Qb4VR> / <https://archive.md/sD4xT>
Apres- (could be cited for any orientation beginning with this prefix, but specifically mentions Apresromantic and Apressexual): <https://archive.md/Tj3XW>
This one is an archive of a list attempting to document all romantic orientations in use. It's quite long. Even I am not strong enough to try and list them all out here to make them searchable, sorry: <https://archive.md/AfqG6>
Cross-archived this chunk to archive.md to make sure images are preserved (wayback is hit-or-miss with images)
Acespike and xenodemiboy, BI NB she/they, Bi catgender "night" flag: <https://archive.md/AaAMX>
Masterlist of Digicoinz terms & categories, Sanitroic, Demonidessertian, Harmonaen, Thalassplatter,[Voracanidaen/Voracicanidaen] (Note said this term's name would likely be changing), Ipsevague / Numeipsevague, Stillhereanthemic, Monsterlexic: <https://archive.md/wWXNJ>
Demian-spike: <https://archive.ph/CdzcP>
Post from the coiner of Myrifluid explaining that they think it should be deleted or combined with Centrispec, along with notes about other aspec identities with potentially inaccurate definitions: <https://archive.ph/P4Tqc>
Lilyvallgender: <https://archive.ph/jZKVV>
Posts about a poisonous plant Floragender which will potentially be named Poisonfloragender / Poifloragender / Venefloragender / Venenufloragender: <https://archive.ph/uCc3C> / <https://archive.ph/hNxQW> / <https://archive.ph/tzx2V> / <https://archive.ph/gKSQf>
Unknown flag by Metanøiia, probably related to the Tavaline System /
Tavaline Gender System: <https://archive.ph/EJudX> / <https://archive.ph/f8OPi>
Link to external sources from some neopronoun flags (I'm not sure if these flags lost sources at any point, but i figure it's better to cover our bases lol): <https://archive.ph/Rx9qD>
Nyan-Binary Flag / Non-Binary Flag with Catgender Symbol: <https://archive.ph/qAUk7>
Acro-s (on the aroace spectrum, the asensual, and the aplatonic spectrum): <https://archive.ph/H4JR1>
Not sure quite how to label these. It's discussion about terms relating to azurgirl and rosboy, focused on non-binary identities: <https://archive.ph/UTo4H>
This flag is either Neptunic or Bambi Lesbian. It's a link to a twitter post I can't see because the account is privated: <https://archive.ph/x9B8C>
Coins related to Celestial System; Soporine; and/or Kenochoric (It's a link to a tumblr post I can't see because the blog moved or was deleted): <https://archive.ph/mnBWD>
Tomahawk Transgender / Torpedo Transgender renaming poll, a post asking for a flag for the old version of the term, and other stuff regarding it: <https://archive.ph/aBBKE> / <https://archive.ph/L0WlZ> / <https://archive.ph/M3BmG> / <https://archive.ph/ZSgzm>
Scene System / Scene Gender System, Panscenian flags: <https://archive.ph/J6VYI>
List of Attraction Types (I do not think this has any coinings, but glancing at it it does seem to be a useful list, so I wanted to save it): <https://archive.ph/WVBbo>
Several Unidentified Flags (The post links to tweets from a now protected account), One is archived and is a Saturnic flag: <https://archive.ph/6x8xy> / <https://archive.ph/w6qiE>
Mirrorgenic, Mirrorlets (Plurality / System term[s]): <https://archive.ph/GkNEy> / <https://archive.ph/S9sRe>
Unidentified Flag by Reign of the breadsticcs: <https://archive.ph/uyNsz>
Bliskosexual Flag: <https://archive.ph/HnsFf>
Assorted Non-Label Flags by AbacusBats (these aren't for any labels and are just practice for flag making from what I can tell, but I just think they're neat and wanted to save them anyways): <https://archive.ph/Ip7FW> / <https://archive.ph/jPshh>
(Potentially Scrapped) Alt Dazecoric Flag: <https://archive.ph/VeMSC>
Apparently Unnamed Gender Term, Related to Genderfluid and Genderflux and Potentially some kind of mutogender: <https://archive.ph/JsMGD> / <https://archive.ph/8565Z>
Lesbian, Vincian Alt. Flags (WARNING: flag discourse): <https://archive.ph/KvrHk>
A-Specs / Aspecs Of The Axe: <https://archive.ph/MvZid>
Genderseraph (The page linked was deleted upon request of the creator, but this post is still up. It felt like I should probably include it just in case it's still up somewhere else?): <https://archive.ph/AJY6e> / <https://archive.ph/FqMSq>
Neptunic, Uranic, Saturnic, Stellaric, and Other Unidentified Flags (I think I may have already archived this one at some point but I'm not sure lol): <https://archive.ph/koeeJ>
Non-Term / Termless Flags (The person said they were "free" so this may be the source for some term's flag out there. Who knows?): https://archive.ph/LsYJF>
RoseWatera Flag Remake. Includes Flags For Taisexual, Rejsexual,
demipronounfluid, heteropronounfluid, and the request to remake the Paradoxigender Flag: <https://archive.ph/osDdP> / <https://archive.ph/TYRQc> / <https://archive.ph/wF3Ao>
Paradoxigender Alt Flags: <https://archive.ph/C6Jd1>
Lingerromantic Alt flag: <https://archive.ph/YzpAB>
Aroace Trans Combination Flags: <https://archive.ph/dtoOF>
Alt. aroaceflux flag: <https://archive.ph/1HoCG>
Alt Dawngender Flag: <https://archive.ph/rkI12>
Wepromiseweretrying Flag-Making Thread. Includes flags for Sol/Solar/Solare/Solars/Solself, lesbian demigirl, non-binary lesbian: <https://archive.ph/2J3Dn>
Another Wepromiseweretrying Flag Thread. Includes repost of flags for Vae/vaer, She/they lesbian, Fae/faer, Pangender. Includes flags for Lune/Lunar, Xe/Xem: <https://archive.ph/xb0gF>
Another Wepromiseweretrying Flag Thread. Only has one flag, for girlflux: <https://archive.ph/VMFFk>
Another Wepromiseweretrying Flag Thread: <https://archive.ph/knk3Z>
Femme twink: <https://archive.ph/sV3OB>
Alt Biprominal Flags: <https://archive.ph/GSGrg>
Terms Relating to Feminaesexual and Muscusexual. Femirietiriisexual / latafabisexual / nebuliriasexual, Viretiriisexual / latamasabisexual / novariasexual: <https://archive.ph/ih02B> / <https://archive.ph/7yFRj>
Alt Fae/Faer Flags by Wepromiseweretrying and DeltaMakesArt: <https://archive.ph/XRZGI>
DeltaMakesArt Flag Making Thread. Includes flags for Spectoflux, genderqueer: <https://archive.ph/9DZSH>
alt genderfluid flags: <https://archive.ph/msE5n>
cupioquoisexual: <https://archive.ph/aGETo>
Another Wepromiseweretrying Flag Making Thread. Includes Flags for xe/xaem: <https://archive.ph/L5ZuJ>
starlittle (stargender + littlefluid), starcloud (stargender + cloudgender / fluffy / fluffygender?). Unclear if these are coining, or somebody trying to figure out their identity based on existing terms: <https://archive.ph/U13G7>
(Warning: Some of these terms read to me as NSFW.) Omdace, Dentroace, Fuoriace, Inferiace, Sumitace, Geniace, Breace, Bottoace, Pauciace, Peculiace, Orgasace: <https://archive.ph/MY874>
(Aesthetic) Sunset Lesbian, Moon Gay, Comet Pan, Star Bi Flags: <https://archive.ph/YK9j3>
Unidentified Gender System. I think this is related to the Astrology Gender System that I archived earlier that was deleted: <https://archive.ph/ZNOkK>
Feresexual (Deleted): <https://archive.ph/fXgGl> / <https://archive.ph/RmBhG> / <https://archive.ph/4bgum> / <https://archive.ph/GDf6o> / <https://archive.ph/TrVi4> (? This one may honestly be for something else, I'm just making a guess here)
i will hopefully remember to add this to my carrd soon, but for now here’s a post abt it.
any terms i coin can be put on mogai.miraheze (the wiki formerly known as the ezgender wiki)
for now i’m not comfortable with my terms being put on the LGBTA wiki (now also on miraheze), as there’s a history of erroneous edits being made to term meanings. i know this is something they’re working on, and i’m hoping that given time this will be less of an issue and i’ll be comfortable removing this restriction.
personal google docs and other forms of gender collections are fine, but please provide credit and a link back to my blog
cross-posting to non-tumblr social media is fine so long as credit is given, my blog is linked back to, and your post is made accessible (if you’re posting screenshots of my posts, please provide the plain text somewhere for screen readers)
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