"Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and uproot from our land but from our minds as well." - Frantz Fanon
Hello users of Hexbear, the intent of this announcement is two-fold the first is that we would like to do another community moderator drive, if you have a community idea or want to help an existing one then please send an application either through hexbear or matrix direct message.
The call for new mods is crucial to our efforts to reduce racism and misogyny on the site, we need users to report and enough mods to be able to quickly act on the reports throughout the day and night. Also, CW or content warnings are essential to the safe browsing of Hexbear.
In addition, comments or posts removed for racist or misogyny will also be accompanied by escalating temporary bans. Upvotes will not be the single reason for a ban, however they may be used in conjunction with other posts/comments/upvotes. Consider this post the warning, however, mods are encouraged to reach out to hexbear users before a long duration ban.
The second is to increase transparency with regard to the site while not repeating the mistakes of previous attempts that were ultimately counterproductive, in part due to wreckers.
Previous attempts to increase site transparency and user participation were targeted by wreckers through increasing the intensity and frequency of struggle session drama.
Using matrix's increased level of user permissions as an anti-wrecking measure while having an increased barrier to sending messages with a clear process to gaining the ability to send messages, we hope to mitigate wrecking attempts.
Leading to the creation of the Hexbear Proposals chapo.chat matrix room.
This will be a place for site proposals and discussion before implementation on the site.
Every proposal will also be mirrored into a pinned post on the hexbear community. Any other ideas for helping to integrate the two spaces are welcome to be commented here or messaged to me directly.
Within Hexbear Proposals you can see the history of all site proposals and react to them, indicating a vote for or against a proposal.
Sending messages will be restricted to verified and active hexbear accounts older than 1 month with their matrix id in their hexbear user profile.
All top level messages within the channel must be a Proposals (idea for changing the site), Feedback (regarding non-technical aspects of the site, for technical please use https://hexbear.net/c/feedback), or Appeals (regarding admin/moderator actions).
Discussion regarding these will be within nested threads under the post.
To gain matrix verification, all you need to do is navigate to my hexbear userprofile and click the send a secure private message including your hexbear username.
In closing, I want to state that this site would not exist without the volunteer labor of the moderators, who I am deeply grateful for.
I would also like to take this moment to remind people that lemmy direct messages are not encrypted, and finally please use this post to discuss these changes, share community ideas, or express interest in moderation.
Application
What is your Hexbear username?
Do you have any preferred pronouns?
What are your thoughts on capitalism?
What are your thoughts on imperialism?
What are your thoughts on trans rights?
What are your thoughts on racial justice?
What do think about current and previous protests around the world?
What are your thoughts on Veganism and Animal Liberation?
Do you have any experience with other leftist online communities?
What did those experiences teach you?
What is your approach to moderation, and how do you work with teams?
How do you deal with online drama and people who try to start things for the sake of it?
What current comms would you be interested in moderating?
Do you have any ideas for community engagement?
What is your general time availability? (Time zone, amounts, common browsing times, etc)
Element information
Element is a messaging app that lets you talk to people over the Matrix
protocol.
To get started, check out this link, where you can choose to either download Element for your platform or, if on a computer, open it in a browser.
The instructions that follow are for the desktop application and the web application, but the process is similar on all apps:
Press "Create Account"
We host our own Matrix server, so if you want you can change matrix.org to chapo.chat.
This is completely optional; users who sign up with a matrix.org username can still talk to people with chapo.chat username.
(Note: It is chapo.chat, not hexbear.net. Also, registrations aren't always open on chapo.chat; if they're not, just create an account on matrix.org)
Fill in a username and password
Hit register, and you're done!
Of the hexbear users that were banned for an upvote on the reactionary comment, four had she/her pronouns, three had they/them pronouns, three had he/him pronouns, and two had any/no pronouns. Now before someone misinterprets my comment, I'm not saying that women and non-binary people cannot be sexist or racist, I'm just saying that our renewed efforts to combat this undesirable behaviour appear to be hurting those we aim to protect. Maybe we need to re-evaluate our strategies given this reality, and the events of the past week(s). Using the same methods we used in the past to combat undesirable behaviour (in regards to voting bans) are not working and just causing more tension between the userbase and moderators/administrators.
No, these efforts are first and foremost to make the site feel safe for our empoc and GSM populations. At least that's what I expect the policy to be. Irl or online, if for example I see a woman making a hostile environment for other women, I'm not gonna just let her because she's also a woman.
I literally said this in the comment. You could've actually read the comment instead of misinterpreting it. This is not the first time this has happened. In the previous effort to combat misogyny, a bunch of women and non-binary people were misgendered and stated to exhibit cishet men behaviour because they posted in a certain community. Now in an effort to combat misogyny again, a bunch of women and non binary people were banned for upvoting a single comment. Not even a pattern of behaviour, a single vote. This didn't even happen during the transphobe banning spree, there it was established that it would have to be at least a couple of comment.
If you're just going to misinterpret everything I say in bad faith, why even reply?
Stop. Idk who this hostility is aimed towards but I haven't interacted with you to my knowledge before this comment, and I'm not trying to interpret anything in bad faith. The quoted part of your previous comment has nothing to do with anything I said, nor any claims I made.
Yes, as well as a bunch of men because it was just a bunch of people. And as you've pointed out twice now with no argument from me, it is possible for trans people to be transphobic, and women to be misogynist. And both to be racist. The only thing I disagreed with is that we're hurting those we're meant to protect. I pointed out that my expectation is to first and foremost make the site comfortable for our empoc and gsm comrades, and that includes from other comrades of the same groups when necessary.
Please tell me what the exact quote was, because I do no remember anyone saying that the women and enbies who take part in dunking are engaging in cishet men behavior. I thought they said the comm had cishet male vibes or something to that tune. But either way, this feels like a revisionist retelling of what happened. That was a statement by a single mod, among a list of many. And if I remember correctly, when it was retold to countless trans women and enbies on the site it was misrepresented as the way you told it. Though it's possible my memory is wrong too, it wouldn't be the first time and I'm happy to be proven wrong.
What aaaaaadjsf said reflects what happened. Apparently the quote was from an internal discussion where the context was somewhat different, but the way it was written in the admin's post was clearly misgendering and resulted in a great deal of upset and shock from the community and drove the escalation of the incident from a discussion about the dunk tank to a much wider incident about admin/moderator behavior and community trust. The statement was in a post made by @CARCOSA@hexbear.net which gave it the appearance of being made on behalf of the mod/admin staff as a whole.
Seriously, if you have no plans to address the arguments presented why even reply.
You know what, I'm done with this bullshit. Last time I got death threats, this time no one even bothers to read the comments in good faith. Bye bye.
What is wrong with these people? You're nothing but reasonable and you get treated like shit. They get handled with kiddiegloves too. If you responded like they do, you'd be banned immediately. How can they be this hostile and then blame others for making the site unwelcoming?
This is just helltaker homosexual being helltaker homosexual. There are a ton of accounts here who are endlessly hostile and face no repercussion and many who are rarely hosting and get punished for it.
If you’re gonna participate in these kinds of discussions you should use your own account.
There are mods on this site who have made death threats toward users and they never get punished or removed. It’s a toxic culture coming from the mods where people think it’s ok to make death threats if the target “deserves” it, ie disagrees with me on whatever topic we are discussing.
It should never be ok to make death threats in any scenario ever. Period. Against anyone, against reactionaries, literally whatsoever.
Online Death Threats are such immature and stupid behavior. Makes one seem weak and insecure to make them, and if someone really intended to kill someone then they should just do it without leaving evidence online anyway. It’s completely incoherent to do.
I’m somewhat notorious around here for being an asshole, but even I have never stooped to that level. I will insult someone, say their beliefs are chauvinistic or stupid, but I won’t make threats. That shit is so cringe but enough people get on board and start doing it and you can’t really stop them.
Jesus, I didn't realize there were death threats flying around, wtf?
Hope you don't leave, I generally like your posts.
It was the debatebro user from those previous struggle sessions. Really heinous shit from that person.
I've seen some other people say it was actually some mods that sent them, too.
That's really not a good take. You probably should retract that.
What a comment
You gotta log off
no, you're an internet person wearing persecution around like a costume
please touch grass
I would upvote this post but I don't want to get into twubl
you are deeply unserious
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