Deeply immature moderators and a highly inaccessible space
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Deeply immature moderators and a highly inaccessible space
324 days ago
I've only been in this server for about two weeks but I was deeply disappointed by the conduct of its staff team during my time there. This server seems to pride itself on its "accessibility" for others but my time there saw anything but.
This server allows and overuses the use of "fonts" in character nicknames despite their complete inaccessibility towards dyslexic or screenreader users. There is no requirement for plain text or readable names anywhere, with numerous members of the mod team themselves having usernames containing these "fonts". It presents issues to all users with these names being unpingable, unsearchable, and often not even rendering on certain devices, but especially where dyslexic or screenreader users are concerned this server repeatedly drops the ball and does not welcome those into its space adequately at all.
This server takes something that SHOULD be accessible - trigger warnings for distressing content - and weaponises them against its users to mandate the most mundane and everyday topics come with a censor. There is no personal responsibility for one's own triggers, no leaving conversations that contain topics the individual reading is uncomfortable with; users are expected to remember the triggers of every single individual member and censor their messages accordingly. There is no management of one's own triggers, it's instead placed on the shoulders of internet strangers to do all that work for you for risk of being punished for "triggering" another. When we're in the territory of having to censor something as benign as canon characters' surnames like Jamil Viper or headcanons *as a general concept*, something must not be working and it shows a severe lack of maturity for these staff to never take that accountability to manage their own traumas or triggers. A public space for anyone to join is absolutely not the same as a private group chat with your friends, it isn't feasible to require strangers give you trigger warnings for food or animals or common everyday phrases or generic topics canonically present to Twisted Wonderland. Speaking as someone who has those sorts of "mundane" triggers myself, it's incredibly unreasonable to punish others for not knowing your list of triggers when it should be on you to remove yourself from the discussion for a moment if you cannot handle what is being discussed.
Further to this point, this mod team goes far beyond what is acceptable when this server mandates any topics to do with religion, spirituality, and physical disabilities be censored and warned for. A moderator for this space thought it appropriate to give a trigger warning for an OC having a prosthetic and had to be asked by multiple users not to censor it, their excuse being "they wanted to play it safe" because "some people find it triggering". A team of fully grown adults should not need it explained to them that censoring disabilities in this way is incredibly ableist and beyond disrespectful. During my time here I've also seen anything ranging from offhanded mentions of religious beliefs to any sort of spiritual practice like tarot reading be censored in ways that are frankly anti-spiritual and anti-theist. For a place that claims to be inclusive, this sort of behaviour towards immutable parts of a person's identity is inexcusable in its cruelty.
Overall, this server gives me the vibe of a place ran by 12 and 14 year olds instead of 20 and 40 year olds. The moderator's conduct is immature, their communication is beyond lacking, and they don't seem fit to run a public Discord server in the slightest. When questioned over some of their confusing decisions, staff leaned more towards being catty and scathing instead of being clear and upfront about their thought processes, traumadumping unprompted without any actually necessary trigger warnings and choosing to blame users for not being able to read their minds about their intentions that were never expressed or communicated. Discussions with mods are deleted seemingly arbitrarily to sweep any discourse or poor choices from their end under the rug.
User retention in this server has done nothing but plummet since I joined with most of its new members leaving after a short timeframe, and it did not take long for me to understand why. This server is not worth your time if you are seeking a mature place that accepts ALL for ALL facets of their identity, not just the ones the mods personally are okay with.
This server allows and overuses the use of "fonts" in character nicknames despite their complete inaccessibility towards dyslexic or screenreader users. There is no requirement for plain text or readable names anywhere, with numerous members of the mod team themselves having usernames containing these "fonts". It presents issues to all users with these names being unpingable, unsearchable, and often not even rendering on certain devices, but especially where dyslexic or screenreader users are concerned this server repeatedly drops the ball and does not welcome those into its space adequately at all.
This server takes something that SHOULD be accessible - trigger warnings for distressing content - and weaponises them against its users to mandate the most mundane and everyday topics come with a censor. There is no personal responsibility for one's own triggers, no leaving conversations that contain topics the individual reading is uncomfortable with; users are expected to remember the triggers of every single individual member and censor their messages accordingly. There is no management of one's own triggers, it's instead placed on the shoulders of internet strangers to do all that work for you for risk of being punished for "triggering" another. When we're in the territory of having to censor something as benign as canon characters' surnames like Jamil Viper or headcanons *as a general concept*, something must not be working and it shows a severe lack of maturity for these staff to never take that accountability to manage their own traumas or triggers. A public space for anyone to join is absolutely not the same as a private group chat with your friends, it isn't feasible to require strangers give you trigger warnings for food or animals or common everyday phrases or generic topics canonically present to Twisted Wonderland. Speaking as someone who has those sorts of "mundane" triggers myself, it's incredibly unreasonable to punish others for not knowing your list of triggers when it should be on you to remove yourself from the discussion for a moment if you cannot handle what is being discussed.
Further to this point, this mod team goes far beyond what is acceptable when this server mandates any topics to do with religion, spirituality, and physical disabilities be censored and warned for. A moderator for this space thought it appropriate to give a trigger warning for an OC having a prosthetic and had to be asked by multiple users not to censor it, their excuse being "they wanted to play it safe" because "some people find it triggering". A team of fully grown adults should not need it explained to them that censoring disabilities in this way is incredibly ableist and beyond disrespectful. During my time here I've also seen anything ranging from offhanded mentions of religious beliefs to any sort of spiritual practice like tarot reading be censored in ways that are frankly anti-spiritual and anti-theist. For a place that claims to be inclusive, this sort of behaviour towards immutable parts of a person's identity is inexcusable in its cruelty.
Overall, this server gives me the vibe of a place ran by 12 and 14 year olds instead of 20 and 40 year olds. The moderator's conduct is immature, their communication is beyond lacking, and they don't seem fit to run a public Discord server in the slightest. When questioned over some of their confusing decisions, staff leaned more towards being catty and scathing instead of being clear and upfront about their thought processes, traumadumping unprompted without any actually necessary trigger warnings and choosing to blame users for not being able to read their minds about their intentions that were never expressed or communicated. Discussions with mods are deleted seemingly arbitrarily to sweep any discourse or poor choices from their end under the rug.
User retention in this server has done nothing but plummet since I joined with most of its new members leaving after a short timeframe, and it did not take long for me to understand why. This server is not worth your time if you are seeking a mature place that accepts ALL for ALL facets of their identity, not just the ones the mods personally are okay with.
