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.
What's the current status of moderation rule 6?
From my reading, banned users are explicitly allowed back if they don't repeat the behavior (and I know this was definitely the policy in the early days). Catradora_Stalininsm was site-banned for "sustained anti-veganism after repeated warnings and a previous ban" (I can't find the previous ban, maybe another account?), was unbanned, was banned again for "Violating the terms of previous unbanning (ie. not engaging in antivegan argumentation)"
From rule 7, it seems like this should be permanent:
Instead she came back as HelltakerHomosexual. She was banned for ban evasion, then unbanned, so admins knew who she was. Also Lyudmilla is all but explicit about it here. She had 14 comments removed for hostility, and multiple for anti-veganism, before getting site banned again.
So would she be welcome back again? Would a ban for "ban evasion" get reversed again?
It's probably a similar situation for dsplayer -> melina -> beluga -> waterbottle (actually banned for ban evasion) but I'm not going to dig through the modlog for that right now.
FWIW when Melina came back as waterbottle it was kinda immediately for arguing inside a struggle session and relitigating the subjects of faer previous bans.
When we open up discussion for improving the code of conduct we will specifically decide together what the answer to your question is, thank you for asking the question. This is something we have argued about behind the scenes, hence the back and forth of actions.