Embassy of Hexbear on Lemmygrad

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What the hell is up with Hexbear moderation on this post? (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 month ago by NotMushroomForDebate@lemmygrad.ml to c/HexbearEmbassy@lemmygrad.ml

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I'm not going to argue about Hexbear's rules or their decision to lock a post and remove comments because they don't want to reignite one of their old struggle sessions.

That being said, how the hell do you remove all comments from users clarifying their positions and defending themselves against accusations yet leave up a comment that says

"crawl back to your misogynist hellspace over on incelgrad"?

And there's no excuse that the mods didn't see it, because they removed a comment that was a direct reply to it.

I'm pinging @thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net since you're a mod on both that post's community and this community.

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[–] NotMushroomForDebate@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I will talk to the moderator team about “posts/comments that slander lemmygrad/federated instances” and encourage moderators to remind people that we should aim for education over bullying.

To further clarify, I don't believe that bullying or harsh tones are a problem in general, just that cases where accusations of bigotry are levied should be treated with special consideration.

People should not be able to get away with a throw-away comment that accuses an entire community of being racist, misogynist, transphobic, abelist, etc. without proof. To further drive this point home, if a Hexbear user accuses a federated instance of being a misogynist space, would you not want to follow up on that as Hexbear admins? Would you want to be federated with a misogynist space that makes your users unsafe and uncomfortable? Bigotry should be treated seriously.

I'm familiar with Hexbear's culture and I'm not trying to police mostly harmless dunking or trash talking.

[–] CARCOSA@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

Our federation allow-list is largely determined by the local users, in the event the userbase thought that lemmygrad had widespread misogyny I'm sure there would be a post calling for defederation with many supporters. I would suppose the person who made the comment would point to the removed comments as proof as well as the fact that this has been a disagreement with history.