Monica Cellio's account of losing her moderator status on Stack Exchange

Re:Monica Cellio's account of losing her moderator status on... by jandrese on Thursday October 03, 2019 @02:45PM (#21150542)

tldr: In response to a proposed StackExchange rule change requiring moderators to use users preferred pronouns when addressing them, the author asked if it was acceptable to continue writing in a gender neutral way; without using first person pronouns. This was viewed as unacceptable and lead to an immediate termination.

This is only one side of the story, but seems appalling at first glance.

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Re:Monica Cellio's account of losing her moderator status on... by apta on Thursday October 03, 2019 @03:01PM (#21150748)

Other moderators in different sections have made similar posts explaining their resignation, and they brought up compelled speech (they're being forced to use gendered language even if they don't want to).

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Re:Monica Cellio's account of losing her moderator status on... by krainboltgreene on Thursday October 03, 2019 @03:44PM (#21151260)

The goal of the moderator is to enforce the rules, if you can't accept the rules why would you be a moderator?

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Re:Monica Cellio's account of losing her moderator status on... by Chyzwar on Thursday October 03, 2019 @03:56PM (#21151394)

These rules have not been decided yet. Mod was terminated because of a simple discussion of new rules.

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