servers that will perma-ban you if you don't post for a week

Citation Fucking needed.

Same reason people still use Facebook, it's why it's known most of the time these days as the old people platform.

Yeah the amount that it's offensive is dependent on the context, but that's really true of any descriptive term. In those contexts it's the insults or animosity that determine offensiveness, not the descriptive terms.

I.e. "those dirty fucking cyclists" in this phrase which would be offensive to cyclists it is the insult and the animosity that make it offensive, not the descriptive term itself.

Obviously it's different when you use actual slurs to describe the person but in the situations described with use of cisgender that usually isn't the case (there are slur uses of cis but they're rare and not used much, therefore have low recognition).

I find it strange that many people here are against this when the alternative is a surgical treatment that often can't be easily reversed, and even when it is, often lowers the likelihood they will have a kid.

Chemical solutions are way better in that regard because if they are done right they don't damage any tissue and their affects are temporary.

Cis isn't a slur the same way trans isn't a slur, they are words to describe those particular gender identities and/or gender modalities.

I've heard it used in hostile contexts but I've also heard trans used in similar contexts as well. That doesn't make these words slurs, they are descriptors used in a context that is hostile.

Ceiling fan is going and a regular fixture put in instead. This seems like a closet or storage room anyway (there are no windows), no real need for a fan like that in a space like this.

You will likely hear the fan tear itself apart from outside of the room, such an event is absolutely loud enough to be heard from outside the door, plus the fact that the little bits of fan that are left afterwards will probably continue spinning and likely bumping into the ceiling (if it's hanging from the wires).

Also depending on what it is responding can just make you into a target for harassment when/if that person comes back on a different account. Best to just avoid it and not make yourself known to them.

If you have that happen to you I recommend reaching out via DM either to your instance's admins or the admins of the server their community is on. Give them the context of the report and also explain how that mod reacted. If a mod acts like that they are very likely an abusive moderator, so make sure to let admins know about that.

I don't and will not use blocking for users basically for that reason, it doesn't actually solve anything it's just pretending things are okay for you when they aren't for everyone else. It's probably the reason why reporting doesn't happen as much as it should.

Even in harassment it is particularly useless because even though you stop seeing them and getting notifications they can continue replying in your threads, they can even use that to turn people against you. If it at least prevented posting and commenting on your profile I'd use it in those situations, but as it stands it doesn't, so it's useless to me, because if somebody is harassing me, the last thing I want to do is hide them while allowing them to keep harassing me, it gives them mote opportunities to cause trouble and removes my opportunity to report them for that trouble.

Ah I see. That makes sense.

I guess that makes sense, I don't really get why it needs a separate word though.