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The Shadowbanner @shadowbanner.bsky.social ! The Shadow Banner labeler is temporarily down after the recent updates to Ozone (the moderation platform). Reports aren't coming through. I'm working on a fix now. Thanks for your patience. Dec 6, 2025 at 9:31 AM Everybody can reply v

🟢 The Shadow Banner labeler is back online. We pulled the latest Ozone updates and everything looks stable again. Thanks for your patience while we sorted it out.

Thanks for letting me know. They used "Gazawood" in a two (2) posts, and were accidentally labelled when I was trying to take action on the "gazawood.bsky.social" account. -- It was an error on my side.

Mike has blocked me, so please let them know I have corrected the issue.

Shadowbanner Label Updates – August 23, 2025 | The Shadowbanner We continually review and adjust the Shadowbanner label set to make sure it reflects how labels are actually used in practice. The goal is to reduce false positives and labeling errors, while keeping ...

A full write-up of all changes can be found below.

Thanks to everyone for your support and feedback — it helps us keep Shadowbanner transparent, accurate, and useful.

🔹 Anti-Asian Hatred → Anti-Asian Bias

More accurate wording; covers bias, Sinophobic tropes, and stereotypes that don’t always take the form of outright slurs.

🔹 Resist Troll → Liberal Troll

Keeps focus on trollish antagonism from a liberal/centrist stance. “Spam” now lives under Political Spammer.

🔹 Democratic Apologia → Liberal Apologia

Broadened to cover liberal/centrist parties internationally (not just U.S. Democrats).

📢 Label Set Update – August 2025

We’ve shipped updates to the Shadowbanner label set to reduce false positives and reflect how the labels are used in practice. As a result, a few labels were renamed. 🧵

Ahh.

Click on your chat/dm button at the bottom of the app, click the blue circle with the + symbol to start a new chat, and then search my handle. You’ll be able to reach that way.

I’ll submit a request on GitHub to get that fixed.

DM chat settings screen should messages are allowed from everyone, and notification sounds are enabled.

Odd. I just reset them so maybe that fixes it?

Labels are a way to categorize content and users on BlueSky. They are part of the moderation tools but they can be do lots of interesting things like foster community.

But for comprehensive moderation of transphobia on Bluesky, we defer to @asukafield.xyz’s labeler, which is dedicated to that work.

You can actually look up other available labelers here:

www.bluesky-labelers.io

Hi! Sorry for the later reply.

We primarily focus on harmful disinfo, abuse apologia, and scapegoating of marginalized groups. Transphobic content often overlaps with those patterns, so we will label it when it signals the broader harms we track.

Thanks for the feedback!

I admit being heavy-handed with the “hide” function. To fix it, I’d have to re-review the posts/accounts on my end.

Let me figure this out over the weekend and I’ll get back to you with a proper answer/resolution.

Shadowbanner Moderation Policy | The Shadowbanner Shadowbanner Moderation Policy Last Updated: 14 August 2025 Subscribe to us on Bluesky Important Disclaimer This section explains our relationship to Bluesky’s official moderation system and the li...

📢 Shadowbanner Moderation Policy

We now have a formal moderation policy to provide transparency about our work and ensure compliance with Bluesky’s Community Guidelines.

Read the full policy here:

Thanks for letting me know. Will speak to their mods.

Sorry for the late reply!

Sorry for the late reply--will review.

It’s ok. I found it! It was this post. It was scooped up when I did a bulk labelling sweep for “Dearborn.”

Tbh, it’s a very good post lol

bsky.app/profile/iiii...

Ever wanted to experience the psychic damage of seeing the worst posts on Bluesky… but as a volunteer? I’m looking for help!

If you think you can handle some chaos and want to keep the space healthy, please reach out.

My DMs are open.

Thanks to everyone who flags things for me. I don’t always catch tags or mentions, so the best way to make sure I see an issue is to submit it through the moderation menu. Those reports go straight to my queue, and I really appreciate the help keeping things running smoothly.

Hi. Can you submit an appeal so I can look? Click the label on your profile and an appeal button will come up.

Thanks. Resolved.

Lady Tehilah @ladytehilah.bsky.social Anti-Asian Hatred Islamophobia Transphobia

I can’t keep up with her!

Managed to grab the follower list before it vanished—turned it into a blocklist:

bsky.app/profile/did:...

Here you are:

bsky.app/profile/did:...

Labeler Category: Anti-Asian Hatred Expresses anti-Asian or Sinophobic bias, stereotypes, or hatred-including scapegoating, slurs, and dehumanization targeting Chinese, East Asian, or broader Asian communities.

I’m trying to moderate posts/accounts with anti-Asian racism.

If you see it, and can report it to me, I’ll label it.

I will remove you and add you to the automated script’s whitelist.

My apologies for that! I’ve been meaning to revise it so that it’s clearer but just haven’t gotten around to it. Your message prompted me to finally do it.

Destiny | Steven Bonnell II @destiny.gg 34.5K followers 29 following 71 posts

Christine Justice @christinejustice.bsky.social Follow Hello there! I am Christine Justice. Resilient Resistor. Mom. Grandma. Married. No DM. Health care. Love pets, music, food, progre...

Hello,

You were automatically added to this list because you followed a specific account. You may followed him directly, or starter pack.

If you don’t know who he is, you can read more here:

www.polygon.com/news/527186/...

You can be removed if you unfollow the account.

Best,

SB

Use this…

bsky.app/profile/did:...

Hi - it automatically adds followers of this “network” every day via python script.

I don’t manually add people to it, but will remove people who didn’t intend to follow them.

If you have any questions, feel free to DM me.