#organisational design

[adjoint-law]

Within the next few millennia, management and organisational design may finally reach the miasma theory stage of efficacy and safety.

[adjoint-law]

This could make a fun case study if HBR Press was interested 😜 Even if "operating a social networking site" is too niche to be directly relatable, you could get some mileage out of examining the information sharing between CX/moderation and leadership. Things like

How did communication on internal channels constrain subsequent external comms?

Which decision makers were involved in the "suspended for sexually explicit [material]" reply? What policies might have prevented sending a reply that no longer reflects messaging, and are such policies worth the cost of implementing?

Automattic is run by a founder-CEO. Under what circumstances would fiduciary duty permit an outside CEO to engage directly with critical users on social media in this manner?

How would you reword leadership's appeal to employee diversity to better convince a sceptical audience? Would it have been better to omit it?

Leadership continued to engage with critical (and/or allegedly hostile) users once the initial post was made. Which stakeholders materially benefited from this? Which stakeholders' emotional health benefited from this?

You gonna do anything or make any statement about the rampant transmisogyny on this hellsite, especially in cases like predstrogen recently? Or yall gonna stay silent and keep letting/making us get pushed off of it.

I have a number of asks about this, so this is to address all of them, I won't do each individually.

We generally do not comment on individual cases, but because there seems to be mass misinformation around this, I will make an exception and comment on predstrogen.

First, Tumblr has a number of LGBT+ including trans people on staff, and they see things from the inside fully, and they're not protesting this case.

Why do we wrongly have a transphobe reputation? We did have an external contract moderator last year that was making transphobic moderation (and also selling moderation, criminally). As soon as we were aware that person was fired, and we later terminated the entire relationship with that contracting firm and have brought almost everything in-house (at great cost). I have previously commented on this publicly, several times.

I am not aware of any Automattician (people who work at Automattic and Tumblr) who has made any transphobic moderation actions. If it's reported it is investigated immediately, if anything were found that person would be terminated for cause immediately.

In predstrogen's case in addition to some mistagged sexually explicit posts, which on its own wouldn't be that bad, we have documented cases of harassment against other users. Most importantly, and why she is banned from Tumblr for life, is she made threats of violence against Tumblr staff.

That is never okay. Threats of violence is not protected speech. We will work with police and FBI where appropriate. I just got a death threat yesterday from someone mad about predstrogen, and that account was immediately terminated.

So regardless of whether you still think Tumblr staff is somehow a bunch of transphobes, know that threats of violence or death are still not acceptable and will result in immediate and serious action. Know that when you rile people up, they can do dumb things with possibly permanent consequences.

(2 hours later update: I have changed instances of the pronoun "they" or "their" to "the account" because I am unaware of pronoun preference in this instance and don't want to misgender anyone. Thank you for the people who reported this as an issue. Update 2: "She" is apparently better, the post now says that. Sorry for the mistake.)

Here's one (of many!) examples of the harassment violations, this one targets me but there are others targeting other users on the site.

The second part seems to indicate she wanted to be suspended, I'm unaware of why, perhaps to create this sort of uproar.

[spotsupstuff]

coat

[backmarkerr]

the suit design of all time

[canonical-transformation]

As has been said in the notes: the PAC issue isn't related to that campaign. The ex-PAC volunteer is hardly anonymous; their identity is extremely clear from context.

OTW Legal has since allegedly commented on this:

I'm sure there are entrenched bad-faith AO3 haters who are wildly connecting the dots from "accounts of scale-induced organisational dysfunction" to "and therefore the racism campaign is pure-hearted and morally right", but to conclude the volunteer accounts are fake is buying into the BS that those dots were connected in the first place.

As other anons have mentioned, the 'end-OTW-racism' campaign is suspicious. SO MANY of my mutuals have been reblogging the posts in support and I feel like I'm going crazy. I skimmed the manifesto, really felt that 'sir this ao3 is a wendy's library' meme - is the campaign calling the OTW racist (hokay), or are they complaining that racist works are allowed - blah blah blah, other anons have gone over this. THEN I saw a post yesterday that said (summarizing for brevity): ao3 Abuse team's go-to PAC volunteer for handling CSEM was "fired" (their quotes, not mine) by a legal team 'that appears to be running roughshod over other stakeholders in the org' (direct quote). From what I understand, this account from the ex-PAC volunteer was published anonymously on Dreamwidth (oh, how convenient!!!). The person making the post I'm quoting from then says, 'I am a long-time OTW skeptic' and that's when I peaced out. i know this is just one post (that has 600 notes and counting) but now it feels like I have confirmation: this whole campaign just feels like unknown persons (antis? Russians?? TERFs??? the fucking Disney corporation!?) trying to damage/discredit the OTW and Ao3. They're playing on "oh no I don't want to be accused of racism!" and all those people who, during Ao3's funding drive, spout off bullshit like "you should give me that money instead". As a previous commenter on OTNF has said: if you want the OTW and ao3 to get better, you need to volunteer yourself instead of just bitching about it on tumblr. To which I'll add: If you hate ao3 and the OTW, just ignore it and don't use it. But it is discouraging to me that so many of my mutuals - typically reasonable non-antis - are reblogging this stuff in agreement from people I'm 99% sure are virulent antis, just because they don't want to be accused of supporting racism.

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[eyes-of-nine]

part 1 | part 2

aghsfshs pls let's ignore how long it took me to post this one😭😭 but i couldn't pass up the opportunity to draw a man covered in blood now could I?

[swordscleric]

I can't stop thinking about the post from a few days ago about how Critical Role has been great at doing personal faith but didn't put the necessary work in to discuss the religious/god angle of c3 in-depth. Like the fact that Cardinal Respa was linked to both the Dawnfather and the Chained Oblivion is, on a personal level, very interesting (fallen/corrupted priest goes hard) but like does that mean that there's a Papacy somewhere in Exandria dedicated to the Dawnfather? If so, are there more cardinals who ordain the bishops of the Dawnfather? Are there Conclave-level intrigues going on in the Dawnfather's Sistine Chapel? Why is the Dawnfather so Christianity-coded in vibes alone if there's no actual outline of his religious organisations? With Downfall the Dawnchild/Dawnfather thing makes the allusions to Christ as Son of God co-existing with the Father textual - was there a Dawnfather Schism around whether the Dawnchild was a separate mortal? Was there a Reformation about how the Dawnfather's Pope kept selling indulgences? Is that why the priest of the Dawnfather Grog & Pike offer a drink to doesn't partake because of a cultural shift between Protestant-Temperance-League-coded and Catholic-coded Dawnfather congregations? Why do I have so many questions about the religious organisation of one of the most important Prime Deities in Exandria and to Critical Role's 3 campaigns? How on earth were the cast (and us as the viewers!) meant to care about the gods if all they had were "really tall kings" instead of interrogating how religious organisations provide both a place of healing and community to a wide range of people and also a place of horrific harm and abuse for a wide range of people?

[scribbling-dragon]

oooh you wanna reblog him soo bad, you wanna give this guy compliments <33

[click for better resolution!]

[starrysharks]

bella bartender

speedpaint link below:

https://x.com/starrysharks/status/1775239548882063616?t=G6B4eWy5MvVs3qAvwaaG7g&s=09

[very-small-giant]

I started my first dnd campaign as a DM recently and it’s so fun!! I’m running a modified Strixhaven for my party so of course I had to make some NPCs of my own🌟

[neonhellscape]

how do we feel about a heretek magos biologis who saw a wrack one time and suddenly figured out her look tm

otherwise known as a server wra [loud gunshot]

[chuckbbirdsjunk]

[gingermintpepper]

I did, in fact, doodle some FOM! Hyacinths!!

He's much better at ranching than growing crops and he's definitely the sort to get each of his lambs a bonnet after they're born. (He planted a cherry tree in front his house at least. He'll figure out actually tilling and working the land next season,,,, probably)

[yourlocalabomination]

Hi take an old goat man doodle I realised I never posted 🐐💛

(Also I’d like to blame credit @kirchefuchs for being the initial inspo behind me drawing Ted with goat features.)

[anna-naray]

Angel's Friends and Sky: Children of the Light? Why not 🌟

Mine and @isaidmeeh Sky's designs of Ang-Li and Cabiria! I really like how Ang-Li's wings came out! So blue 💙 And the very elegant Stars Weaver Cabiria by @/isaidmeeh ���

They are SUPER DUPER CUTE!! (⁠ノ⁠ಠ⁠益⁠ಠ⁠)⁠ノ⁠彡💕💕

[theeio]

evening doodles 💖