Reviews for Shinigami Eyes
Shinigami Eyes by Shinigami Eyes
893 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by cassettetape, 25 days agoUsed to be helpful. Now it's the opposite. I've seen many trans-friendly accounts marked as transphobic and vice versa. Looking at other people's experiences, this seems to be a result of various harmful attempts to divide our community. In the years since installing this add-on, I slowly realized how unreliable it was. I've learned how to examine accounts/websites to determine for myself if they are truly transphobic, and I encourage others to do the same. This add-on is less than worthless to me now - it's actively misinforming me. I will be uninstalling it.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Whoopsie Collective, a month agoGreat in concept, but recently has been really inaccurate.
Quite a few people I follow that are trans advocates have been marked red recently for no apparent reason, and I've seen absolutely vile transphobia from accounts marked green. - Rated 5 out of 5by raerdaemon, a month agoShinigami Eyes rarely incorrectly flags someone as all flags must be reviewed by their moderation team before they appear for all users. Many reviews are falsely accusing the developers of many things in an attempt to destroy a tool that helps keep trans people safe online. Shinigami Eyes has been wonderful in helping me curate a more trans-friendly online experience.
- Rated 1 out of 5by sanguinemoon, a month agogood in theory. however, people who are/advocating for intersex people are being flagged as transphobic by staff, as well as people who believe in discrimination against transgender men. anyone who doesn't fit a very narrow subset of transness or support for transness is marked as a transphobe. this seems to be a tool only for not even trans girls but a very specific subset of them.
i really really believe this tool can be great as long as we get over our personal biases and stop being assholes. splitting others who are hurt from us only harms the whole group. discrimination only helps those who wish to see not just trans people but everyone who is lgbtq+ destroyed.
as a trans girl myself, it's stupid that we even have to talk about this.
only by being together can we survive. don't be stupid and discriminate. - Rated 1 out of 5by wallie, a month agoTrans friendly accounts are being marked red for being intersex advocates. Transphobes are being marked green. Will not be using this extension again unless this issue is fixed.
- Rated 1 out of 5by artisticunderdog12, a month agoNeeds serious moderation.
I've been routinely seeing folks who espouse transphobic, exorsexist, and intersexist stuff be marked as trans-friendly solely because they themselves are trans, meanwhile, intersex activists and trans POC are marked as transphobic??
99% of the markings also feel solely fueled by whether or not one personally dislikes the person they're marking. I think this could be improved with a requirement to add *why* someone is being marked red or green, but right now, the extension is useless and only being used for infighting. - Rated 1 out of 5by Junowo, a month agoIncredibly disheartening to see that this extension is being used as a bludgeoning tool against trans men and intersex people. Even if this was solely a small online discourse it is wildly inappropriate to be marking trans activists as transphobic because you disagree on their nuance on what type of transphobia is "valid".
- Rated 1 out of 5by shannoncm4, a month agoThis used to be a useful extension but now the devs have begun to mark trans men, nonbinary people, and intersex people who discuss their issues and rights as red. I've also heard instances of trans/nonbinary POC who've called out racism within the queer community being flagged as well. Very disappointing to see an extension that once offered some safety start aiding transphobia, exorsexism, intersexism, and racism.
- Rated 1 out of 5by venusbunny, a month ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18708457, a month agoim very disappointed that this extension started marking intersex people and people who show support for them as red.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18703965, a month ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by puppy, a month agogood extension for basic terf spotting but is often misused for targeting queer people who others don't like.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 18708389, a month agoI can't in good consciousness rate this extension 1 star, because it genuinely has been useful to me in the past. However, I've been seeing more and more trans friendly accounts unmarked or even marked red simply for uplifting transmasc, nonbinary, and intersex voices. It would be one thing if this were simply a case of the 'phobes abusing the community mark feature i would be less concerned, but the developers have responded to similar reviews to mine to comfirm that this is the system working as intended, and that many of these false marks were manually placed by the moderation team. This is frankly unacceptable in any application that calls itself progressive, let alone something that has, in the past, been as useful to online safety as Shinigami Eyes.
I'm leaving a two star rating for these reasons. I will continue recommending this extension, but only after a conversation about these drawbacks and how they only further the goals of the very people who make products like this necessary to a safe online experience. It is shameful to see you walk down this path, and I can only hope that eventually the devs and moderators will see the error in their ways and begin working, once again, towards a better world. - Rated 3 out of 5by DC, a month agoAfter some thought, ultimately the biggest flaw of this app is that it does not have any transparency. It's essentially a black box that reviews go into, but there's no information regarding any given tag -- what did this person do to get flagged red? Were they calling for the extermination of trans people, or were they misinformed and mildly bigoted? Why is this person flagged green? Are they active advocates for transgender safety, or did they say 'trans rights' one time and leave it at that?
The Internet is a big place, and it's very easy to follow the way the wind is blowing. I think the best use of this app is as a double checking tool, not as the be-all end-all, and what I would most like to see is a community notes feature to explain why any given person is marked red or green. - Rated 1 out of 5by youdon'tcareaboutmeandIknowit, a month agoThis extension isn't queer safe anymore, it toxic discourse now. Queer cannot be dicated through cis ideals, and we don't exist to conform to them. But being Intersex and Agender I expect this behavior this app has extended. A safe place for hateful trans people and undercover terfs.
- Rated 1 out of 5by m Siaw, a month agoPoor moderation with no transparency. Many intersex and transmasculine people of color are labeled red for talking about intersex human rights, culturally-specific gender experiences, and personal trans experiences that don't center or pedestal transfeminine experiences. Many people who habitually pedojacket, harass, crusade against, and rumormonger ("socially murder") about these same intersex and transmasc BIPOC (specifically using transphobic tactics and rhetoric) are marked green. It's difficult to take in good faith, defeating the purpose of the extension.
Intersex people using intersex-coined, intersex-focused labels and talking about intersex human rights is not a form of transmisogyny. People of color talking about our personal experiences with gender and how they vary with our native cultures is not "aligning our goal[s] with [those] of TERFs," and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see the contradiction there with how overtly and frequently racist TERFs are. Asserting that marginalized people talking about our personal experiences is a form of bigotry actively hampers trans liberation. You cannot take transmisogyny seriously if you're putting transfems on pedestals (which is bad in general because transfems are a kind of human, not some special exception) at the expense of other vulnerable community members. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 17992858, a month agoRecently started marking anyone who is advocating for intersex rights/awareness as well as trans men's as red.
Additionally devs are specifically targeting queer people of color who are calling out white trans people (specifically white trans woman) for racism and intersex people who are calling out the interphobia that's in the queer community.
Hit dogs hollar - Rated 1 out of 5by nepsah, a month agoI used to rely on this quite a bit, but I'm finding more and more that users are being incorrectly flagged as transphobic when they shouldn't be. This was a nice idea in theory, but its clear that either the devs aren't actually reading through what gets flagged, or they hold some pretty egregious exclusionary beliefs.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Emily Thomsit, a month agoAs a trans woman this is not useful anymore, an account having a red name doesn't necessarily mean they actually are transphobic, and it seems that the extension is being used to target intersex and trans-masc people
- Rated 1 out of 5by Basil, a month agoDo not use this extension. The devs manually flag people who acknowledge the issues trans men and intersex people have to face as red. absolutely disgusting.
someone i followed on tumblr was marked as red for committing the crime of.. believing trans men and intersex people should have their terms respected.
several trans people of colour are also marked as red for calling out white trans people as racist.
edit: after seeing the devs spamming the same response. yeah. fuck this extension. The devs are telling intersex people not to use the terms their own community made. If an intersex transwoman says shes afab, she isnt forcing an amab transwoman to identify herself as male. disgusting.
Stop throwing nonbinary, transmasc, and intersex people under the bus, and maybe you'll stop having so many people angry with you. - Rated 1 out of 5by Hal, a month agoIt used to be good. Now it's bad. Plenty of red marks are just black trans people calling out bullshit.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Vega, a month agoUsed to be incredibly useful to help keep myself safe, but now is actively promoting weird exclusionist queer discourse by marking random trans and intersex users anti-trans for opinions the devs seemingly just don't agree with (intersex exclusive labels, stuff about transandrophobia, stuff that doesn't make someone anti-trans in any way really). This no longer helps keep me safe and actively goes against what its original goal was. A depressing turn of events considering the state of the world.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Rohebat, a month ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Aiden-Nevada, a month agoThis add-on would be great if it didn't mark discussions of transadnrophobia and enbyphobia/exorsexism as transphobic. It also should ideally include intersex people and not mark intersex inclusive spaces, discussions of intersex issues and intersexism as transphobic. Intersex people can not only be trans too, they also fight for bodily autonomy and their bodies being able to exist without confroming to outdated gender roles. And multigender people or people with seemingly contradictory identities (like transmasc lesbians) should be included in the extention too and not marked as transphobic.
Aside from that it's a great extention that helps me filter our transphobia that could be trigerring for me.
So keep up the good work, but please look into above issues once you have time!