Used to be one of my favourite extensions. I cannot express how disappointed I am to see what this has become. Allowing usage of enbyphobic/exorsexist slurs to be considered 'not enough to mark someone as transphobic', while considering those identifying in good faith with typically intersex identities as a valid reason to mark some as transphobic is frankly disgusting. An extension like this was probably doomed to fail at some point, but it's very disappointing to see it happen regardless.

Aside from the problem with the guidelines, the moderation team needs to get a handle on the blatant transandrophobia, because the last 4 red flagged accounts I've seen have just been people discussing transmasc opression. It's very easy to tell when those accounts are also transphobic in some regard and they very much were not. Though I'm going to guess that this is by design. I kept it for a while but it's not catching terfs anymore, just trans people minding their own business that yall disagree with.

edit: developer response is ridiculous. intersex people defining themselves in a way that aligns with their complex personal experiences isnt forcing trans women to label themselves as male at all. i thought we were long past treating other good faith identities as a threat. and ive seen amab transmascs too, in about equal number to afab transfems. funny how you dont mention those. personally as a trans bloke that lot hasnt made me feel threatened! maybe its time to listen to intersex people instead of keeping to your narrow, and frankly biased viewpoint.

cannot emphasize enough how bad an idea it is to trust some random add-on maintainer's curated list to tell you who is a Good Person and who is a Bad Person. even apart from the verifiable misuse of this tool, it is just foundationally a bad idea.

This was once useful for flagging bigots - it is now itself exclusionary.

It's "alright", but it's not as useful as it should be. I've seen *trans* people be *wrongfully* marked as transphobic, over simply asking to be treated with respect for being part of other minorities, or for using microlabels and other niche identities that certain people using this extension have decided are "harmful" and "mocking". It would be a lot nicer to use had I known that I could speak up about struggles and minorities that still aren't "important" to most people without wrongfully being marked as transphobic. Additionally, in the guidelines it says that.... Actual bigotry against trans people isn't enough to get marked as transphobic???

Shinigami Eyes was a great idea and I've enjoyed it for many years. However, I think a new dev team has taken over (or the values of the dev team have changed drastically), as they've now taken it upon themselves to highlight trans people they don't like, including intersex activists, kids using odd labels/neopronouns, transmascs and transfems of color who discuss their unique experiences with transphobia, and transfems who are genderfluid or use he/him pronouns - in short, any trans person who's "cringe" or uses the "wrong" language.

Shinigami Eyes was invented to highlight dangerous transphobes, like TERFs and alt-righters, and it's really disappointing to see it misused to destroy trans solidarity. I'm sorry, but I just don't believe members of my own community are a danger in need of ostracism, just because they say things I don't like.

The dev team needs to get their shit together and stop splitting up our community. Especially in this time, where we need solidarity more than ever.

Edit, since I can't respond directly to the developer's response: Since when are we letting TERFs dictate our language? No one is forcing trans women to do anything. If you let yourself be pushed around by TERFs, and letting TERFs force you to disclose your assigned gender, that is your own problem. You don't have to define yourself by your assigned gender, just because other people do.

Being used to silence people who speak on Intersex issues as well as transmasq topics

This extension is being used to silence people who speak on intersex or transmasc topics, it has the capability to be a very good tool, if only the misuse would stop.

Used to be a great way to filter and block transphobes but now the moderators are flagging trans men and intersex people red for speaking on their own experiences with transphobia

used to target actually transphobic people + sites, now just targets anyone who doesnt agree with the creators :< if youre considering installing this anyway, please please please look at what they consider to be a qualifier for red vs green marking first, esp intersex + transmasc people. you can check their guidelines by going to the user page (click the "shinigami eyes" link right under addon title), click "homepage", scroll down to "shinigami eyes website", then to the section labeled "how to label".

I had been happily using this extension for many years. However, infighting that leads to false flagging of transmasc and intersex people for merely talking about their experiences and the uniquely awful transphobia they face is inexcusable. Moderation seriously needs a major overhaul for the sake of the entire trans community. To exclude these voices is what leads to in-fighting and our community to become much more divided, something we absolutely cannot risk having right now more than ever.

But hey, this extension can tell you that the (un)funny white cishet youtube man who may have coughed out a "trans rights" once for the meme is a totally great and reliable trans ally alongside actual advocates working around the clock to fight for trans rights for everyone. So it has it's value there I *guess*.

I used to use this a lot, but now that it marks users negatively based on the personal views of the creators, rather than truthfully whether someone is actually known to be transphobic, means I cannot trust it anymore, so I unfortunately have to mark it poorly.

This extension has the capacity to be misused to silence intersex people and its TOS considers bigotry against nonbinary & transmasc people to be permissible and not enough evidence to mark a person as anti-trans.

This extension was once a very good tool to tell if someone was trans-safe at a glance. Now I'm immensely disappointed with the way it's being handled. Folks who discuss the aggression and oppression that trans men and intersex people experience unique to trans women are not transphobic and now the tool only pushes for community separatism, instead of community solidarity. Moderation needs to be overhauled severely.

What was once a useful extension has become a tool for transphobic bullying and is now useless for identifying actual transphobes OR people genuinely supportive and inclusive of all trans people.

People are marked red for talking about transphobia towards trans men, mascs and transneutrals (INCLUDING trans women speaking up in support) and for petty discourse reasons, yet people can stay marked green while spewing vile transphobia and intersexism as long as it's not about trans women the moderators agree with.

This gives people false impressions of not only potential transphobes, cutting off people who are genuinely supportive and inclusive, but have been marked red either by mass reports or for petty reasons or ARE trans but have an identity that the creators believe is innately transphobic for intersexist reasons, but also fools people into thinking that others are safe and exposing them to vitriolic transphobia towards transmascs, transneutrals and disagreeing transfems, and exclusionary rhetoric that only serves to promote separatism.

Extension might as well be rebranded as a TW(only)IRF identifying extension (that's fine with people using transphobic slang from 4chan as long as it isn't about trans women) since that's basically what it's become.

with the new guidlines of what is considered transphobic or not this extension has become functionally useless for social media so i've stopped using it. not to mention that even before the change of guidelines people were marked green for no reason. my main tumblr account is marked green and i dont even talk abt trans topics on there, all ive done is reblog gofundmes of trans women a couple times which shouldnt be enough to mark someone as green.
the extension works well for news websites though.

I used to love this extension, unfortunately the developer(s) are now radfems and it has become basically useless and sometimes even actively harmful if you aren't one.

If you want to see proof of this, just look at the guidelines on this extensions homepage. "Theyfab", an anti-trans slur directed at afab nonbinary folks and even trans men (which is also notably misgendering) doesn't count as transphobic, but "AFAB trans woman" an identity most commonly held by intersex women apparently DOES count.

Why they are so against intersex, transmasculine, and nonbinary people is beyond me, but maybe that's because I don't participate in chronically online infighting and actually listen to trans and intersex people when they talk about their own oppression rather speaking over others in community trying to talk about theirs.

Edit: Also I looked through some other reviews and if you scroll far enough the developer has said some absolutely vile, disgusting radfem shit, including:

-Saying intersex trans woman are aligned with TERFs and appropriating trans women (read: appropriating 'real' women)

-Saying "binary trans woman" is disparaging against trans women who transition (read: transitioning == binary, and not transitioning == not a real woman)

-Replying to a review mentioning that trans men talking about their own issues have been falsely flagged red with 'promoting anti-trans values will get you flagged', (read: if you're a trans man stfu or else you're a terf)

So there's more proof the dev just blatantly fucking hates intersex people, nonbinaries, and trans men. While we're at it given the amount of trans bipoc I've seen falsely flagged it's also become a tool for white supremacy (though that's pretty much standard for radical feminists). All the more reason I have gladly uninstalled this thing. Hope there's a trans-friendly fork!

I used to love using Shinigami Eyes as it was incredibly helpful, but it's turned into infighting slop lately and shows no signs of getting better. People simply speaking on their experiences or supporting all transgender people are being marked as transphobic while actual transphobia is getting pushed aside as just fine, actually. It's sad, honestly. Trans men and Intersex people are especially being hit hard—Something that brings me great concern for my transgender siblings.

used to be great but now it just marks anyone talking about intersexism and transphobia directed at transmasc people or non binary people as transphobic, completely defeating its purpose :/

Used to be good, but the mods support intersexism and transmisandry, supporting marking those talking about these issues as red. Their guidelines are also specifically okay with ace-phobia and racism. Borderline useless extension now.