Reviews for Shinigami Eyes
Shinigami Eyes by Shinigami Eyes
Review by Firefox user 14973578
Rated 1 out of 5
by Firefox user 14973578, a month 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.