First a call-out of fatphobia (https://hexbear.net/post/4189552) that ended up proving its point, then the stuff about “he/hims” (https://hexbear.net/post/4187781) ". Apparently a mod got banned!?
I am not very active and I never look at the megathreads, the number of comments in them scare me away from them. Is that where it’s happening? I feel confused about what this community is like now.
I, uh, don’t really know what my point is. Maybe someone can explain what the state of the site is? Especially on the he/hims thing. Maybe that’s the main point of this post.
I feel sad for people that got hurt by this.
Really short thing I just want to tack on to this, but it seems to me there’s a lot of people here that confuse “I dislike this” or “I disagree with this” with “this is bad”. A bunch of those people are mods now and they try to remove/act against “bad stuff”. They then get met with confusion or opposition and then conclude that the people disagreeing with their actions are bigots or have unexamined brainworms. When someone tries to explain their position to them, they perceive it as the ramblings of some angry reactionary, so they dismiss it, barely reading the response, let alone understanding it.
Massive word for word projection from you. I trust the mods more than a terminally online redditor like yourself.
They’re acting like they’re on some anti authority crusade like liberals in the eastern bloc. It’s that specific way they complain about everything the mods do as some egregious injury to them personally. Like they somehow just realized that hexbear has ideologically motivated leftist moderators.
Very much ‘aggrieved redditor’ energy
