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Mutual_Aid discussion post (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 days ago by CARCOSA@hexbear.net to c/hexbear@hexbear.net

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Hello users of hexbear:

Due to recent meta posts in our mutual aid community we wanted to open up discussion about the community !mutual_aid@hexbear.net

We will never require explanation or justification from a user asking for aid in the community, and the mod and admin team continue to commit to not featuring an individual's mutual aid request to prevent unfair exposure.

In addition, we will maintain a strict "No critical comments or meta comments" on a mutual aid post.

This post is to discuss the mutual aid community's rule of allowing meta posts: mutual aid as a community, those making posts in it and those commenting on posts.

We are considering removing the exception allowing meta posts but wanted to involve the userbase before committing to a change.

Please comment with any thoughts, feelings, or suggestions regarding this change.

Thank you

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[–] simontherockjohnson@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I’m not trying to call you out,

I wasn't taking it that way. I just think that your POV matters, but should be treated different than the POV of someone giving.

I stopped begging for cash when I saw that the posters above and below me were victims of genocide.

I think this is very noble of you.

I’m absolutely against means testing of any kind, but I think that it is up to the poster to determine if some amount of a limited pool of resources should be allocated toward them, and failing that, it is up to the donator to determine if their donations are going to someone in dire need.

Yeah I agree with this, the best we can do is caveat emptor.

I just think that adjudicating it before/after the fact or debating whose rules are more moral is pointless and harmful. There's already calls for the user to get banned, from people who likely only read scenario as presented by Adkml which is not productive. I think there are scenarios where the $4k/car/drugs thing could be extremely shitty sure, but I don't have all the information to judge, I don't want the user to provide it, and it's not my place to judge to begin with.

This is a message board, meaning it's already a suboptimal way to distribute aid. At the end of the day this wasn't someone pretending to be in need, they did get a car with the money, this person is still homeless. People should just live and let live.

[–] BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

they did get a car with the money

You are talking an awful lot about a situation you clearly don't know.

[–] simontherockjohnson@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago

You are 100% correct, and it is 100% none of my business to find out.