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- '''AndreiXYZ'''</blockquote>OWOT's lack of adequate moderation, on both the canvas and the Discord server, has been a long standing issue within the community. A major source of criticism was that all of the previous admins were appointed purely on basis of being OG users of the site. This older set of moderators were infamous for being uniformly inactive, and left almost all administrative functions to [[Fp|FP]], who had to balance his responsibilities with IRL obligations and left many problems to run rampant within OWOT.

In May of 2024 Fern petitioned to become admin on the Discord specifically, putting forth a proposal for ironing out the server's rules. Her qualifications included being a long-time user who ~~had been~~ active in calling out misbehavior within the community.

In May of 2024 Fern petitioned to become admin on the Discord specifically, putting forth a proposal for ironing out the server's rules. Her qualifications included being a long-time user who was active in calling out misbehavior within the community.

The push to install Fern as an admin was met with significant support from the userbase, with [[AndreiXYZ]] in particular rallying users to private their worlds until a new admin is appointed. FP gave Fern moderator permits on May 15th, 2025, after which Andrei congratulated her and expressed optimism for the site's future.<gallery mode="packed" heights="300">

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== Actions as Discord Admin ==

As the result of a community poll, Fern made the #ideas and #questions channels into thread-only channels during April of 2025. She later replaced them with forum channels according to the results of a later poll in May.

In May of 2025

== Miscellaneous Discord Activities ==

=== Catposting ===

=== Politics ===

== Relations to Other Users ==

=== AndreiXYZ ===

Andrei has been friends with Fern for years and petitioned strongly for her to be made a moderator on the [[OWOT Discord]].

He was also the first person in OWOT to learn of her transition, and playfully hinted at it for months before the big reveal. After the reveal he organized all information about Fern's transition into a thread in the #trash channel.

Since her promotion to Discord admin, Andrei has stood with Fern on most moderation issues and helped her gather evidence against misbehaving users. Notably, however, he has criticized her for not taking action against [[Lemuria]] despite repeated cases of ragebaiting.

=== FP ===

Fern has taken care of most administrative functions on the Discord ever since her appointment in 2024, though she would still report issues to FP on certain circumstances.

=== Lemuria ===

[[Lemuria]] values Fern for her attention and would frequently call to her for validation, or for support in Discord drama.

On her part Fern has historically been more patient with Lemuria than other members of the userbase. In the past she had repeatedly given him constructive criticism and advice about his attention-seeking tendencies.

Much of this page had been filled out by Lemuria.

=== Jamel ===

Throughout early 2025, Fern had timed out [[JamelBurger|Jamel]] multiple times for his opinion on trans and gay people. This had contributed to a long running animosity between the two, though by the end of May Jamel had resolved to be more accepting of the LGBTQ community.

=== Tatejo ===

In 2023, Tatejo had also argued with Fern over his beliefs about trans people. But by late 2024 they had (informally) agreed to put their differences aside.

In May 2025 Fern and Andrei opened an investigation for Tat's past offenses, including offenses of alt abuse, general toxicity, and (possibly) conspiring to take down the website. Tat gave a lengthy appeal in his defense, but ultimately accepted his year-long ban from the server.

=== Poopman ===

An inactive admin, and one of OWOT's old guard.

[[Poopman]] was yet another user who argued with Fern over his opinion on trans people.

=== Sammich ===

Yet another OWOT old guard.

[[Sammich]] protested Tat's ban by sending a series of incendiary messages within the server, including one in which he purposefully misgendered Fern.

Fern did not make any public statements about this incident, possibly to avoid admin in-fighting. Alternatively it was possible that she talked to [[Fp|FP]] in private, since Sammich's admin rights were revoked soon after.

On his part, Sammich took the whole situation lightheartedly and reminded everyone that he was simply ragebaiting.

== IRL ==