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This sub is back with new moderation

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The sub was banned a month or so ago for lack of moderation. There were a number of unsuccessful attempts to request get it back

It looks like they were mostly denied for lack of experience.

I realize how important this sub is to the community so I requested it myself 6 days ago

I stand by what I said in the request

I plan to build a active moderation team to provide support to build and maintain the sub for the benefit of the transgender community. I will replace moderators who do not moderate effectively.

I plan to take community feedback for the rules of the sub and have the moderators enforce the rules.

I am top moderator of several transgender surgery subs and have built them into the biggest and most important transgender surgery resources on Internet.

I will do the same for r/phallo. I am very active moderating on reddit.

A bit about myself

  • I am MTF and I don't know much about FTM. Not ideal, I know.
  • I'm doing this as a service to the community rather than my personal interest.
  • I moderate the subs above and also r/DrWillPowers. I don't post much there, its mainly behind the scenes.

From the surgery wiki here

There's nothing much I want to say. My username u/HiddenStill was chosen because I'd spent years trying not to transition. Its made me overly cautious, to the point where I say very little about myself and I especially don't like talking about anything recent. It probably doesn't really matter, but its not entirely rational anymore.

When I started out on reddit I used to post my opinions on surgeons just like anyone else, but I've pulled back from that and mostly stopped. This wiki and moderating has given me more attention and influence than I'm comfortable with, and I don't think its fair for me to influence anyone's choice in surgeon beyond providing links to resources. For all these reasons if/when I have surgery I'm not going to post about it under this account.

I go by female pronouns online and male in real life.

I'm not and never have been in any medical field. My work is far removed from that.

A post about how I moderate Transgender_Surgeries

Miscellaneous

I took down the previous sticky posts to replaced them with this one so people more easily see this one, hopefully. I'll put them back later, or perhaps something else. They were

The mod queue here is full of outstanding issues. The sub was not moderated for a while and it will take me a while to go through them.

I've given myself a nice stereotypical pink flair 'MTF & Moderator'. I'd not normally do this, but I'm not planning on posting much here and it might help avoid any awkward moments.

Wiki

There's a wiki on this sub, and I'm a big fan of these. They can help a lot of people. It would be great if anyone is interested in working on it.

The wiki I made elsewhere

Sub Rules

I'd like to review the rules of this sub and take community input.

The current rules of r/phallo

The rules of the r/Transgender_Surgeries

Mod Team

This sub needs a new mod team, so applications are open. I can't do this by myself and I already spend far to much time on Transgender_Surgeries. I want/need others do as much as possible. The most important thing I can do is make sure this sub never gets banned again and is moderated in the interests of the community.

I'm looking for

  • Responsibility
  • Subject knowledge
  • Experience with moderation/reddit preferred, but not not required
  • Commitment to spending the effort here.
  • No drama, no personal agendas.
  • Varied active time zones.

Regarding pre/post op I think its good to have of both. People tend to drop out of the online trans community when they have finished transition, so people who are post-op are likely to have a shorter time here and less driven.

I've no intention of adding anyone who's MTF/AMAB. I can't see how that would be a good idea.

I'm probably not going to appoint new mods until their applications have been visible for others to comment on for a while. Also, I need time to review them and work out what I'm doing here. I'm really busy right now, so I'm reading everything, but replying less.

I do intend to add a number of mods, so there's room for a range of experiences.

In the last 12 months I've made 36500 mod actions on r/Transgender_Surgeries. Most of this is not visible to the members of the sub, there's a huge amount of work that goes into moderation that others will never see.

Moderation is mainly about looking after the community rather than posting answers to questions. Most people think otherwise because that's the only part they can see. I mentioned I made 36500 mod actions in the last year - almost none of that would have been visible to the members of the sub. It included things like approving posts that have been filtered out by the automatic moderation tools, banning over 2000 people for hate, chasers, cis people, etc. From that point if view it doesn't really matter where you are in your journey. The question is, can you help build community?

Anyone who becomes a mod is not sufficiently active or not doing it properly will be replaced. It may sound harsh, but I don't have time for it and its not in the communities interest. Edit: moderators higher on the mod list can remove lower ones, so with this in mind I intend to reorder the mod list as needed so that if ever leave the sub it will be more likely to continue as best as possible.

I prefer to have as little as possible to do here personally beyond making sure the sub doesn't get banned again or go off the rails in any fashion.

Reply here if you're interested, and if anyone agrees or disagrees you can either say so in the comments or send me a pm/chat/modmail.

There's edits all the way through this post now.

Posted Jun 29, 2023, 11:30 PM UTC · edited

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