#tgce

I want to be mad at Alex or eir supporters likely trying to get (at least some of) our pages on eir terms taken down (I guess because we refuse to present incomplete information just because Alex is trying to be noble or something), but the fact that this person really thought that this report would get those pages taken down by Wikidot is really funny to me.

Like, you do know those flags go directly to us, right? We hold all the power with what’s done with those reports. That function pretty much only exists for sites that run like fandoms, where more people other than the site’s creators of the website can make and/or edit pages, so moderators can be alerted to inappropriate/vandalized/whatever pages.

This doesn’t go to higher powers, this goes to the people who made the pages, lol.

I honestly want to know why you would think that would work. It’s the in-site report function on a site that was meant by the host/template maker to be used like a fandom- publicly changeable. Why would you think that would be for people at Wikidot and not the site admins? If you report vandalism on a fandom page, do you think it’ll go to fandom staff?

This gets better (worse for the reporter) when you realize that Wikidot tells people how to report sites that violate their TOS, which involves emailing an address they have set up for that. Let’s also add in the fact that anyone who read the TOS who weren’t already on a warpath would realize that we don’t come close to doing anything wrong. They even have a rule in there against presenting misinformation as fact- us refusing to remove certain information so we can be as accurate as possible is the opposite of breaking that rule.

This whole thing is a comedy of incredibly foolish errors and I love it. Apparently a 30 second Google and 5 seconds of critical thought is too much to ask for and now I get to laugh at the result.

hi gang! i hope you are doing well. several decisions have been made and several things have happened.

Alright. The TGCE/Alex J. page is back up under a slightly new name.

This post was originally supposed to be a pretty longwinded rant about some things that came up in eir reblog from the new The-Gender-Collector-Emself, but I don’t have the energy for that and I think I can get my ideas across in way fewer words (but still kind of alot).

1. We will not be removing Alex’s blog names from any of our pages on terms that ey coined. Why? Because the point of Wikis and archives is to organize and archive information and history in regards to whatever that Wiki or archive is centered on. When it comes to terms like ours is, part of that information is who coined a term. Someone’s feelings or supposed noble goal to ‘not remind people of eir existence’ does not change that. Plus, removing eir name from things actively makes it harder for people who want to avoid flags (and even terms) that ey made to do so. They would have to go through every place online that might have that information to figure that out. It’s not fair to make people go through all that work because of someone else wanting to just kind of... fade away, or whatever.

2. We will not be changing any quotes or censoring any screenshots that do use eir last name. This is because, again, as a Wiki/archive, it’s our job to present the most and most accurate information in regards to our topic of focus. This includes not altering quotes or previously existing images to meet the requests of the person the page it focused on, because that changes the accuracy and integrity of our Wiki. Any times that we used it separately from quoting someone or using an image will be changed, because the name that we are now using is the most accurate information, in regards to Alex’s name. However, the name used in quotes and screenshots is what is most accurate to what’s being presented, where what people were using was Alex’s name, and the inclusion of the full name is accurate to the quotes.