Our site culture is how it is from a lot of online fighting, and trying to counter brigading/trolls in the early days. Our moderation is pretty heavy-handed because of this, but they do let you appeal.

Usually if there's a rule, there's a specific event that caused it.

Moderating anything is literally gatekeeping, but I can see how to someone wandering in it looks like a lot of arbitrary stuff to tread carefully around.

But if you seem like you're coming here in good faith usually people aren't too impolite, although they might be because sometimes it's exhausting for us to hear something annoying for the millionth time that a newcomer is probably new to hearing.

[–] GinAndJuche@hexbear.net 26 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Is gatekeeping even real? It’s usually people mad about that based Mao quote “No investigation, no right to speak”.

[–] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 12 points 11 months ago

Or liberals who are mad we won't say they're the cool kind of capitalist

[–] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 22 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's terminally online gibberish yeah. I don't even understand what half of the site taglines mean or where they come from, and I've been using this website for years lmao.

[–] Nagarjuna@hexbear.net 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I wish it were gatekeeping, then it would be intentional. Unfortunately, this is just how we are...