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yall still use shinigami eyes right? i feel like i dont see people talking about or referencing using it as much as i used to. i also seem to see marked stuff either green or red just less frequently. did something happen there that i missed or did folks just forget about it? i really appreciate it and def use it still so i’m curious!
if you don’t know what I’m talking about this is shinigami eyes, it’s a browser extension that indicates if users or news media or people online are trans-friendly (green) or anti-trans (red).
i know i dont usually post non art but this is kinda important…
shinigami eyes obviously isnt perfect - it can be gamed, and since it relies on volunteers with varying understandings of transphobia and what support means it can get both false positives and false negatives - but its a very useful tool. especially since you can tag ppl yourself
if youve ever been like “but how am i supposed to keep track of all these fash memepages and crypto-turves im not supposed to rb from” this is your answer. tag them. (and this isnt just aimed at allies, i see plenty of trans ppl sharing posts from ppl who want us dead)
EXTREMELY good point!! i have a personal rule of “if a person is marked red, and reblogs from two other red marked people, they’re anti-trans” which works almost all the time. Also you can use it to mark strong exclusionists and transmeds as anti-trans as well, which is really useful.
And it’s not just for trans people!! I highly recommend that allies use it as well, especially for the reporting feature.
It is actually explicitly not for exclusionary beliefs other than trans-exclusion. If you actually click on the link, which takes you to the Shinigami Eyes home page, there is an entire section about guidelines on how to label, with examples.
Not enough to mark as anti-trans
Being a conservative, a SWERF, a bad or mediocre ally, ace-phobic, being concerned with “free speech” and giving voice to “both sides”.
The extension is only used for specifically marking trans-friendly or anti-trans things, and nothing else. If you want to use it for other things, it’ll show what you’ve marked back to you immediately, but not necessarily show that to anyone else.
Also it explicitly states that it is hand-monitored. So again, while it will immediately show to you what you’ve marked, it won’t display that marking to anyone else until it is confirmed in their database. I don’t know if that database has been updated/monitored recently or how exactly that works.
How does it know how to color each page?
The initial version has been created through a mix of manual labeling and machine learning, but you can contribute with your own labels.Is there a mechanism in place to prevent malicious/fake reports?
Yes. While your overrides are immediately visible to you, changes are included in the publicly visible dataset only if they pass some trustworthiness criteria (including human validation).
Also yes, it is available as a browser extension for: Chrome, Firefox, and Firefox on Android (experimental). See the links above to install.
Also, for those discussing that they only or primarily use tumblr in the mobile app: you can do periodic checks on desktop with shinigami eyes. It doesn’t have to be an always-monitored thing to be useful. You can go through your queue, likes, reblogs, followers, and who you follow periodically to check for flagged users. From there, I might will find a post or several that have one or two anti-trans users indicated in the notes. By then going to their blogs I can then find their network and block them and mark them as anti-trans in shinigami eyes. Just do that every now and then and that is often enough.
For an always-on method, I highly recommend using tumblr’s filter (aka blacklist) function to filter transphobic terms, tags, and dogwhistles. This will work on both tumblr mobile and desktop. See my post about that here, with suggested tags and terms to filter.
Hi yall I’d really appreciate if you could reblog this version of the post, with my additions. I keep seeing folks reblogging versions without my additions or who have clearly not clicked on the link or read any of the website, spreading rumors about what the extension is, who uses it, how it’s used, and how it works. I know posts will always get away from you after a certain amount of spread but it’s still frustrating! I’m not gonna defend it as perfect because I didn’t make it, but at least read the website for yourself before making big claims.
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