Hexbear’s new head of operations just dropped, and their way of dealing with the fallout of their last struggle session is to hand bans out like candy to their concerned and disillusioned users while throwing out “epic” quips like insecure teenagers along the way coupled with their communication (and seemingly contempt) towards their own userbase which isn’t helping their allegations at all and the revelations that were learned about Hexbear’s moderators and admins from their most recent struggle session.
The last few days have honestly shaken my faith in Hexbear and their team and I hope the mods and admins at Lemmygrad are monitoring the situation closely.
Luckily you don’t have that power. phew
Please don’t feel embarrassed.
keyword: daily. I already compared it to another social situation where something is also not mandatory, but it is expected.
So the thread was a ruse, feigning a daily ritual to provoke those who don’t belong in revealing themselves, all the while the ritual’s true purpose was obvious for those in the know. Totally not a cult. You’re so knee-deep into it though that you don’t see it, I’m trying to give you an outsider’s perspective. Forums that aren’t run on the logic of a cult just remove transphobic posts and warn/ban the person who made them.
Below pedantry.
It’s not expected. There is no expectation that you must post daily, or ever, that you “love your trans comrades.” You compared it to another social situation, I asked for evidence posting in these threads is taken into account somehow like with that example and you said I was in a cult.
You’re quoting Gribbli for the daily point, but they didn’t literally mean daily. This doesn’t happen daily on like a schedule where you’re expected to post this, or even where anybody posts this. It happens often but if that’s your keyword, your argument is washed. You can access all posts on Hexbear, so tell me where this is posted daily.
It’s not a daily ritual. You know nothing about Hexbear and yet you feel like you can critique the site culture. You’re actually embarrassing yourself. No, the point of people posting that they “love their trans comrades” is both to show support and to make the site’s position clear and turn away/root out any anti-trans users. These aren’t mutually exclusive.
You’re an outsider times two. You’re going off the word of another outsider and extrapolating that to spin up this idea that users saying they love their trans comrades is some daily ritual that users will be rewarded for or punished for not completing. You have no clue what you’re talking about.
Now I feel kinda bad for airing old hexbear semi-drama. Really didn’t mean for anyone to try to make a point with it, just wanted to state my own experience :\
You did nothing wrong
Nah, you didn’t do anything wrong. People are responsible for their own actions, not you.
Well, I wouldn’t know.
This is true.
Not a daily ritual then, but a ritual nonetheless.
Yes, it can be all those things and still be a ritual
“to show support”
“to make the site’s position clear”
“turn away/root out any anti-trans users”
Rituals are a normal part of human life, we have all sorts of rituals. That said, rituals on websites are weird.
I never said that. But I will bet you that people who are regulars in those sorts of threads look more favourably on each other. Why are we pretending like I invented the concept of feeling belonging to a group? What I am saying is not controversial. You claim I got it wrong, but then confirm my assumptions, and then you get angry about it.
I am sorry if the word “cult” rubbed you the wrong way, it was hyperbole, I didn’t mean to insult anyone. Much like “daily thread” doesn’t mean literally daily. I don’t mean that you are literally in a cult. Hexbear seems to engage in rituals that strengthen group belonging, I am not making a value judgment wrong or right, I think it’s weird and I don’t like it.
Alright, you wouldn’t know anything about this. Then there’s nothing else to say.
I didn’t confirm your assumptions, I already responded to this. Call it a ritual if you like, I don’t care. Genuinely just semantics. The argument comes in when you say that it’s weird and you “don’t like it” (welcome back Kamala!!).
So? You could say that for any thread. People interact with each other and share viewpoints and form connections. How sinister!! This is not the same as what you said before. You now this.
No investigation, no right to speak.
Fair. That could have been the first response. But I guess you all had to get the insults out of you, I hope it was cathartic.
You are one smug piece of shit you know that right?
It is almost impressive.
Typical bully response.
It’s true I didn’t say “I love my trans comrades” today and got banned 20000000000,0000,00,00 trillion times! 😱😱😱😭😭😭😭
spoiler
I am joking and it’s hilarious that I even have to clarify that
Hexbear went woke 😞
Wow, another cult member.
I’m one of the people telling you you’re wrong. I’m also one of the people TC69 just banned, and I taunted her publicly after she deleted her account. I have a 3 year grudge against her for fucking over the hexbear vegans.
You’re still wrong about this.
Wait tc69 fucked over the hexbear vegans?
Now it all makes sense
I know who tc69 is now
I know whose accounts the wrecker accounts are
Its all that one user who got banned for being rabidly anti-vegan
If you’re thinking of CatradoraStalinism, I really don’t think they’re TC69, but they are the mod some users are accusing of being the wrecker (an admin said they know for a fact this isn’t true).“Fucking over vegans” was banning all discussions of veganism outside of their comms and removing all the VCJ mods. Frankly a lot of the userbase probably agreed with these decisions but I strongly oppose them.
Its the only thing that makes sense to me though
With this assumption there would have to be only one culprit
TC69 isn’t particularly anti-vegan, she just decided to take action against us instead of addressing the sitewide issues. Again I really don’t she’s the same person.
Lmao come on, you can’t be serious.
No one is forced to say shit. We just ban transphobes.
It’s starting to look like that’s why you hate us?
Never said they were.
I never said I hate you, what a silly inference.
It is not expected. You claim it is. Stop being an overly semantic debate bro get your transphobic ass back to Reddit.
and then
“If you don’t perform in my x ritual you’re anti-x.” I guess you gave up on claiming I’m wrong and just embraced it?
Lmao. You keep digging that hole. I’m calling you a transphobe because you have a problem with us banning people who attack pro trans statements.
My friend in Christ, you are doing the equivalent of going to somewhere that is gay friendly and loudly shouting “I can’t believe your forced to kiss dudes here!” At the first sign of dudes kissing.
You’re not expected to kiss dudes, you won’t be banned for not kissing dudes, but if you loudly voice disgust every time dudes kiss, I’m kicking you out of the bar.
Never said that. I literally wrote in a post that a website should delete transphobic posts and ban people who make them, but that I don’t agree with the “affirmative ritual”. Why are you being dishonest?
I always feel bad when I was agreeing with someone initially and then they just kind of dig themselves deeper and deeper and start saying less and less coherent stuff and it makes me realise they were probably masking some really uncool shit and I fell for it. :(
Yeahhhhh…same. Think I’ll actually log off this time, too much weird shit happening.
We were just talking about this with the mods, it’s incredible how hard it is for people to just say I am sorry and do a tiny bit of self crit. I had just done so as I had just got off work and wasn’t taking it seriously enough how bad shit had gone off the rails in the previous 8 or so hours.
I was just like “oh shit sorry my bad that sucks I need to investigate this” and then we were cool. And I get it, untangling niche communist shitposting site drama is for the most part an annoying waste of time (if you are not a moderator of said community and thus literally obligated to do), but like you can just ignore it. If you want to engage with a subject you must investigate it fully. As a comrade instructed me in that same instance I referred to apologizing for, NO INVESTIGATION NO RIGHT TO SPEAK.