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firecat (attention machine in need of calibration) ([personal profile] firecat) wrote2020-06-17 09:16 pm
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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
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[personal profile] brooksmoses 2020-06-18 07:07 am (UTC)(link)
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.
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[personal profile] firecat 2020-06-18 09:24 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you!
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[personal profile] flippac 2020-06-18 02:56 pm (UTC)(link)
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.
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[personal profile] hitchhiker 2020-06-18 09:24 pm (UTC)(link)
i could not find any reference to user blocking in the bug tracker :(
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