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WTF is happening on Hexbear? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by SovietCollie@lemmygrad.ml to c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml

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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.

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[–] NoYouLogOff@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Honestly almost all of the response by leadership vs users is temp bans, so I'm thinking actual damages aren't even that bad? But the blood is up so maybe cooling down while whatever behind the scenes stuff gets figured out might be good.

[–] Gribbli@lemmygrad.ml 35 points 1 week ago

Was a long time HB member since the subreddit days. Autistic, black, nb, so none of the accusations of cishet white male vibes applied to me - that was annoying. The flippant dismissal and joking around with this entirely irony poisoned energy with mods still doing bits and lying about shit was straight up aggravating. Ate the perma because like a few people there, I don't think I could trust the mods/admins after that. It's not a high stakes thing for me but that means it's also low enough stakes that I really don't want to deal with that attitude any more.

[–] PaX@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago

Yeah we ~~probably~~definitely all need to relax lol, regardless there is def criticism to be made about this whole behind-the-scenes adminning thing that developed after our chaotic first year needing to..... idk... have more democracy again? After this whole thing especially

I just saw a bunch of people get unbanned now so idk, hard to keep track of it all

I'm gonna go, like....... make a meal and do and think about something other than niche web forum drama now lol