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[firecat]

Twitter thread about lack of transparency and structural racism on AO3.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1272922207912632329.html

More background and ideas for action.

https://naye.dreamwidth.org/2281896.html

Comments

[brooksmoses]

Whee. That's yet another example of how far "not seeing color" is from actually being usefully anti-racist.

One more link that I think is worth adding: The AO3 source code:
https://github.com/otwcode/otwarchive

I don't really speak either Ruby or webserver, so I can't comment as to what's technically feasible or not in that source code, but it seems like a person with a reasonable amount of experience ought to be able to determine what it would actually take to add things like user-blocking to it.

[firecat]

Thank you!

[flippac]

Tbh, if user-blocking isn't feasible they shouldn't be hosting a messaging system. That's completely obvious in 2020, but for people coming from LJ it should've been at the time too.

[hitchhiker]

i could not find any reference to user blocking in the bug tracker :(