Reviews for Shinigami Eyes
Shinigami Eyes by Shinigami Eyes
Review by Firefox user 14973578
Rated 1 out of 5
by Firefox user 14973578, 10 months agoWhile a good idea in theory, this extension has become completely useless due to a variety of factors leading the information it provides to be unreliable. The main issues are as follows:
- There is no system to view the reason why someone is marked as either pro-trans or anti-trans; the extension instead expects you to trust its opaque data set without question. I'd find it hard to trust any source which makes bold claims regarding a person's bigotry (or lack thereof) without at least one specific example.
- The voting data is processed using an imprecise algorithm known as a "bloom filter" which has a tendency to erroneously categorize people in either the pro-trans or anti-trans category when there aren't actually any votes to support that.
- The anonymous voting is incredibly susceptible to false flags, particularly from exclusionist subgroups within the trans community. This leads to many transmasc, nonbinary and intersex people being marked as anti-trans in retaliation for pushing back against hatred directed towards them, while the people who spread that hate are marked as trans-friendly.
The result of this is a once useful tool becoming a vector for character assassination (whether intentional or not) of vulnerable trans people within our own community. I would not consider recommending this unless all of the above points are meaningfully addressed.
- There is no system to view the reason why someone is marked as either pro-trans or anti-trans; the extension instead expects you to trust its opaque data set without question. I'd find it hard to trust any source which makes bold claims regarding a person's bigotry (or lack thereof) without at least one specific example.
- The voting data is processed using an imprecise algorithm known as a "bloom filter" which has a tendency to erroneously categorize people in either the pro-trans or anti-trans category when there aren't actually any votes to support that.
- The anonymous voting is incredibly susceptible to false flags, particularly from exclusionist subgroups within the trans community. This leads to many transmasc, nonbinary and intersex people being marked as anti-trans in retaliation for pushing back against hatred directed towards them, while the people who spread that hate are marked as trans-friendly.
The result of this is a once useful tool becoming a vector for character assassination (whether intentional or not) of vulnerable trans people within our own community. I would not consider recommending this unless all of the above points are meaningfully addressed.
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- Rated 2 out of 5by sd, 2 days agoI used it for years. It used to be very good at telling if someone is more covert about their transphobia-
However, lately, the people doing all the rating and anybody who might be approving those ratings only seem to care about trans women (and not even all trans women, seemingly just the ones repeating radfem rhetoric), and nobody else. I have seen people marked red for no reason other than supporting transgender men, nonbinary people, and intersex people. Most of whom never used that "transandrophobia" term that people seem to hate so much.
Seems like trans 4channers also get marked as green frequently as well. You mean to tell me the woman I saw talking about "TME theyfab pooners" is pro-trans? She probably isn't even pro-trans in regards to herself, let alone others who don't fit specific standards. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 20071927, 4 days ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by SpoopySoup, 5 days agoI just want a little bit more transparency, more options in the options page (like more colors for ones you marked yourself, or if it was verified by the team running this), maybe hover notes on why a page was submitted and colored with simple 'time updated' metadata, because what if the mark was from ages ago and nobody looked to update it if it was someone being 14 or something 10 years ago.
I use it mostly to take a page, blog, or person with a grain of salt and to look into it myself, because sometimes transmeds can be green and someone simply with unusual pronouns for their gender can be red.
I probably used this for so long every time I see a colored blog it likely is my mark that's clientside, which is why I still use it, since I constantly curate it.
Nobody can perfectly verify everything and some can fly under the radar, if you are using this plugin, PLEASE don't be afraid to mark/submit your findings too, there may be issues but you can help by submitting the correct dropdown even if its already marked. Even clearing marks is helpful. - Rated 2 out of 5by siam, 6 days agonot much help when it doesnt tell you why someone was marked red. when i come across a youtube channel marked red, and the channel is nothing but innocuous content unrelated to lgbt issues, am i supposed to just believe that? im not going through all their social media to find the truth. transphobia is a heavy accusation, you best have a good reason for it.
- Rated 5 out of 5by tumbwr, 6 days ago
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- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19984572, 12 days agoThe negative reviews are from terf bots, ignore.
- Rated 5 out of 5by tom9mi, 13 days ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by dreadful, 13 days agoi don't care about tmras and transmisogynists whinging about how they're being bullied for spreading vile bs abt trans women, but i have seen actual 4tranners get marked green, including a dedicated 4tran subreddit. come the fuck on. you wouldn't call an edtwt user a feminist for saying moid.
it's just become a discourse tool now, which is functionally useless for measuring what is and is not actually unsafe for trans people (esp women) to be around. - Rated 1 out of 5by Jak, 14 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 20047351, 16 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by KYLEGUTZZ, 16 days agoLike. SO many trans men, non-binary and intersex people are marked as transphobic on this thing for speaking about the oppression they face. So fucked. Also like. a lot of black trans people are marked red for no reason??? Racist and transphobic, avoid at all costs. If you need to check if a page or blog is transphobic, just do the work yourself.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Luna, 17 days agoy'all the rating are community made if someone who is a trans ally is marked red it's because people using the extension marked it as red for some reason
- Rated 4 out of 5by bunglung, 18 days agopretty good. ive been using it for a while and has been largely accurate. im not sure the specifics of the process. but as of late it seems false negatives within the system have been circulating just for people combating transmisogyny. one thing that would help is when somebody is marked red or green (though it would benefit red marks the most) it gives a reason why they were marked such and a link/screenshot to where the person expressed a belief which way. don't use it without checking, especially for red marks, but it can help bring your attention to whether or not a person might be transphobic
- Rated 5 out of 5by Galius, 20 days agoalright I gotta swallow my pride and say that when I made my last review, I was duped. I was poorly informed by the reviews, and after using the plugin and better understanding the actual conversation around the relevant issues, I'm changing my 1 star review to a 5 star review.
Effective plugin, and it feels nice to see green names going around. Recommended if you think it would help you. - Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 20037153, 21 days agoI looked at the guidelines when wondering why so many pro-transgender pages are marked red and it sounds like using assigned-gender-at-birth language is being encouraged as "do not mark trans-friendly" due to transmisogyny. Julia Serrano's article on what transmisogyny is does use that language. So am I supposed to mark Julia Serrano as anti-trans??? I'm supposed to flag the woman who coined the term "transmisogyny" as being violently transphobic? That sounds rather counterproductive! Can the developer explain why this is supposed to make sense? Are people flagging others just to see them turn red? Did anti-trans people raid the app, and the mods just can't keep up?
- Rated 1 out of 5by mina, 22 days agoBeen noticing a very weird pattern of trans people of color (regardless whether they're ftm, mtf or enby) or people who point out racism within trans community being marked as red. Do not use.