Cream.api and you can mishmash all you want

Oh then that sounds very cool. I think I suggested something similar to it then

There’s also a bit of a fine line there. It oftentimes ends up steering into weird bioessentialism.

I definitely made an error in making TC69 an admin, and we will not be adding admins.

Not even me? Just as a silly little bit? Please, I promise not to use it responsibly

The bans and subsequent loss of @Awoo@hexbear.net @PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net and ReadFanon@hexbear.net] (dont recall if fanon was banned, but I haven’t seen them around) were bullshit and the mentality that lead to them really needs to be dropped. I also haven’t seen @Frank@hexbear.net or @aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net around for a long while. That sucks.

We all have petty grievances, but I really wish those who think they are responsible enough to moderate a community would be responsible enough to leave their private issues at the door.

I’m not 100% sure who you are talking about as this is vague

Zoomeristleninist

And every community its’ own mega

However, people who are still harboring viewpoints that are in favor of imperialism should not be allowed on this site

In that case you’d lose most of the userbase. We should not expect perfection or lack of brainworms of each other. Go look thru old/controversial posts if you want to see how much the site vibe has changed and how much current users have grown. Heck even recently there was the post about users cheering on the US if it invaded Greenland.
As long as people aren’t being assholes they should be welcome. (Not arguing for a marketplace of ideas or debate or anything silly like that.)

You and Ivysaur both mentioned that you would not have been welcome here at earlier points in your life, but you are now. Frauddogg is still in that earlier stage, and null have not rejected their indoctrination in favor of capital. If frauddogg was willing to change, I might accept them back in a few years, but I doubt that will happen.

Yeah that’s the vibe I mean. I guess this comment was pointless, sorry.

We do not have enough emojis, wyyesseff must have a whole team to help.

I would love the resources, but I know I won’t be able to follow thru on the project lol. Still, please share them

In the spirit of the suggestion that separate points are kept separate, I’ll do this one on its own.

I think a nice communitygathering effort would be a weekly crowdsourced effortpost. Posts like this one and this one were great for both pooling resources, getting people to work together and reminding us we’re all on the same side. They’ve also been great tools to have since then for educating myself as well as others. Effective agitprop in a way.

It would be nice to have a weekly or monthly thread focusing on one issue where we could work together to make something like that for different subjects. “Why is wikipedia bad?” “Structural racism and misogyny” “Issues with Ukraine” and so on. I’m sure people have plenty of ideas for good posts like that.

The resources are already here, but they’re spread out and they disappear as users delete their accounts. I know @robinn@hexbear.net (sorry I don’t know what your current account is, if you’re still here) has written out a bunch of fantastic posts with a great wealth of resources that are now lost to the wind as the accounts get deleted.

Lots of good stuff in here. I would like us to have more bots, they’re fun and they help remind us not to be too serious.
Bot ideas:

• ReactionaryCountBot - goes thru the modlog and counts all the times moderator action has happened for transphobia, sexism, racism, homophobia, etc.
• PunBot - Gives you puns.
• StruggleSessionBot - Posts pictures of outdoorcats whenever somebody mentions cats.
• REgonQuotesBot - Ping it for my greatest hits
• FunFactsBot - Gives you fun facts
• QuickDiscussBot - Has links to a bunch of megathreads/effortposts and you can ping it to bring them up so you don’t have to constantly explain what’s wrong with wikipedia.

You are honestly an exemplary moderator and admin. No bit, no joke, if “being a moderator” was a college course, studying you would be required.

Sounds nice, but the issue (for me at least) hasn’t really been lack of knowledge of site rules, but inconsistent enforcement. The rules are written out pretty clearly, but if some moderator disagrees with me then I might get my comment removed for whatever reason, while their friend can threaten to curb stomp me, accuse me of havin 70 transphobic alt accounts and be fine. Pointing this out is then toxic behaviour. Sorry, I am a bit bitter.

Yeah apart from the news mega (and even that one is only neutral to me) I do not understand the drive towards megathreads at all. It’s just discord but with extra steps and if I wanted to be in a discord, then I’d be in a discord. I wanted a leftist redditclone, that’s why I came here.
It’s at least mellowed out a bit, but there has been a lot of push towards those in the past. It’s extra odd to me because the site seems to have a vibe of wanting to create agitprop and, at the very least, affecting the wider fediverse, but we want to discourage posting for some reason.
I don’t think we should get rid of them. Some people like them and they’re a part of site culture now, but I never understood the push for them.

Is you taking notes on a criminal fucking conspiracy?

I think it’s this one https://hexbear.net/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=15669 but I’m not gonna go thru the post history to figure it out

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.

AAAAAND I am out. Yay. They had to beep me a bunch of times lol. I think one of the doctors flirted with me too 👀👀 maybe I should do more taurine so I can get sent back