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When I first joined the server, they were neck deep in a huge discussion about which sorts of trans representation were allowed because Tom kept commenting on artists work saying things like "I'm glad it cuts off so I don't have to throw up" re genitalia. That post was deleted after the backlash but the fallout has a whole thread in the gen channels from forever ago that's still available to read through if you have a strong stomache. And the mods were like "Yes, the general approach here is to scroll past content that doesn’t suit you and to be respectful of other people and their preferences." (direct quote) which is like "yeah usually that's the rule except for Tom). Here's like... a direct link to that thread. You can read it yourself. And this happens all the time and god forbid you're a new user who doesn't know about it an accidentally tag him or mentioning bottom essek in his vicinity because he will publicly shame you for it. And all the mods were in there and spent so much time placating him instead of moderating him which like made it worse. The mods tended to make him worse 90% of the time cause they were all like... good friends outside of the server? But one left and he kicked another one over killing a spider. You can read all about that here btw in their bug sex channel or whatever. Or that time he described a lesbian sex scene from a fic by saying "it was surprisingly tolerable" (direct quote) Like you can act like I'm making this up (or lowkey threaten to sue me over a tumblr post I guess) but it's a real longstanding issue that's definitely breeching containment of the server itself. Seeing his comment on the rec list made me actually really sick to my stomach and I'm sure I'm not the only one.