I must admit I mostly lurk there and never quite made the jump culturally to lemmygrad, but I do respect your opinions and the last few days are making me feel a bit insane and wanting an outside perspective. I'll explain and provide links for context
A longtime user got banned for bad behavior in live chat on hextube. That part isn't all that surprising. But then we got dueling impersonators one and two making meta posts about the ban and a notorious also-banned user he had conflicted with a long time ago (melina).
This was... mostly just annoying, clearly someone was doing a nasty bit, but mods just banned them both and the site moved on which I guess is fair enough.
Fast forward to today, and we have an account (not brand new, but not a longtime account either, only a few weeks old with limited post history) purporting to be our resident China guy (and China doomer, to some extent) from the news mega, posting a long winded story about going to xinjiang and getting 1984'd or whatever. It starts to feel like it could be a bit as it gets more and more absurd, but this user was always very serious from what I recall.
If this is a troll/psyop I guess it's a good one because this garbage is giving me a fucking headache. What do you grad'ers think is going on? Were any of these real or all impersonators (and relatedly who? melina?) Am I just too autistic to get the joke? Is this a fed psyop? what else could be going on?
fakenews and badposting ruined hexbear
Seems like a lot of people feel that way. I personally don't mind bad posting, every once in a while there is some good comedy. Fake news did start to wear on me though because I get got every time lol. I think you can do satire and irony and it can be clever and funny! But I think there is a limit and once you see that people are getting upset you need to stop otherwise it feels like bullying
I had to block that com
idk why I haven't blocked it. Masochism, probably
I blocked both of those very quickly because it was confusing and was flooding my bear feed with shit. Which means I'm out of the loop on some stuff but it's kept Hexbear a solidly pleasant experience and spae for me.
Neither add much, but I think a bigger issue is so much conversation getting shunted into megathreads. You end up with:
Because megathreads aren't all that coherent -- there are dozens of different topics, people posting chat-style missives, etc. -- the biggest points of focused discussion wind up as the struggle session threads.