Hello users of Hexbear, there have been many changes and some drama the past few months.
The recent changes we've been making have been an attempt to create a more safe and welcoming environment for many demographics that have been overlooked in the past.
For any of our comrades that have been unintentionally hurt in this process, we apologise and hope to find a solution that accommodates as many people as possible while still meeting the needs of the marginalised groups who need a space like this the most.
The intent of this post is to provide a space for all users to air grievances with regard to the site. As well as provide suggestions for specific things that could be changed to address your grievance. Comments insulting the mod team or those without a specific means to address your problem may be removed. No commenter will be sitebanned, unless it clearly breaks the code of conduct.
Thank you. Incidentally I've been looking for that last screenshot everywhere, I wanted to submit it to copypasta as a "leftists navy seal" pasta. Do you have the whole screenshot? Or even better the post in text format?
I'd also like to point out to the people who are arguing over lack of receipts for deaththreats: Frauddogg consistently threatened violence on people. Sure there's no way void could do anything, but if that's the standard, shouldn't we all be allowed to threaten each other as much as we want?
Anyway for further lack of receipts: I don't take screenshots or archive or save or commit to memory posts that make me sad. I don't save any posts, but still.
Just because there's no receipts (even though there is) it's not like this isn't a known issue. A year or two ago there was massive drama about some vegan user who regularly told people to kys. It took ages for any mod action then. At the same time I've gotten comments removed for telling people to suck my ass. Just like how we all get frustrated with libs who act obtuse so as to avoid engaging in an actual discussion, we have a tendency to do the same, when the discussion is one where we feel uncomfortable. Especially if we might have to cede that we could do better in actual practical ways rather than vague platitudes.
Another example of this is users who are very clearly alts of banned users. I know last big drama thread finally ended up with red-renewal-cosmonaut getting banned, as if it was not an obvious alt.
In general it seems to me that there's a lot of people who assume the absolute worst of other users. I wish we had more empathy on this site.
Last thread was incredibly hurtful. I'm a wrecker doing some nefarious long con apparently. I'm secretly working to undermine the site culture and I am actually misogynist (this also came up in my recent discussion post) who wants to... turn a site with a userbase of 900 people into a new 4chan? I don't understand this mentality. I dislike a lot of you, i disagree with a lot of you, but I at least assume (or try to, sometimes it gets too hard with some of the things I get called) that you're coming from a place of good intentions.
it seems to me like there's a group of people here who perceive "disagreeing with them" as being inherently reactionairy.
This turned in to a bit of a rant and I went off on a wild tangent. I'm sorry.
Anyway thank you so much dustbunnies.