After discussing this with the people most often using the mutual aid community and feedback here we will be making a single change.
Meta posts will no longer be permitted in !mutual_aid@hexbear.net critical meta posts must not be about specific users and posted in !feedback@hexbear.net at risk of removal.
We will change the mutual aid sidebar to remove the clause permitting meta posts, we will also ask that users post once a day so that everyone's post's can be seen but this is not a hard rule as it is pretty clear that removing posts is a last resort in that community. This joins the other community recommendations that users include currency, how much is needed, updating when a user has received funds, or updating/locking the post when the need has been met.
This will be unfeatured in about 12 hours
~~Hello users of hexbear:
Due to recent meta posts in our mutual aid community we wanted to open up discussion about the community !mutual_aid@hexbear.net
We will never require explanation or justification from a user asking for aid in the community, and the mod and admin team continue to commit to not featuring an individual's mutual aid request to prevent unfair exposure.
In addition, we will maintain a strict "No critical comments or meta comments" on a mutual aid post.
This post is to discuss the mutual aid community's rule of allowing meta posts: mutual aid as a community, those making posts in it and those commenting on posts.
We are considering removing the exception allowing meta posts but wanted to involve the userbase before committing to a change.
Please comment with any thoughts, feelings, or suggestions regarding this change.
Thank you~~
At the time this was more about soliciting advice on how to go ahead with the comm as a whole lol, which didn't feel appropriate. But at this point we have all the drama aired out here anyway so whatever
I get that but it seems like a popular topic that a lot of people are afraid to discuss. I'm not even trying to take sides right now but I feel like sparing the feelings of one person at the expense of the people trying to help isn't a good strategy. There are a lot of people ITT that said they blocked the comm for the drama and that sucks for a lot of reasons.
We should be able to trust our users to talk about sensitive community issues and mod anyone that gets out of pocket. It's toxic to just bottle it up and wait for the next person to explode. Then everyone is like "what is @Longstanding_user_who_contributes problem?" Instead of looking at the whole issue.