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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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[–] CARCOSA@hexbear.net 16 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

some users of the community feel that they have to make multiple posts to even be seen which makes other posts harder unless they also make multiple posts.

the point of accounting is to help posters to update their post with amount received and lock it when the need has been met so other posts can receive the aid

meta as in posts related to anything outside of posting asking for aid, comments bumping it or comments replying that they've send the aid which would include both posts detailing suspected scams as well as lists of non monetary aid

[–] mendiCAN@hexbear.net 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

thank you for the explanation rat-salute

[–] CARCOSA@hexbear.net 9 points 21 hours ago

of course thank you for speaking up at, after reading other commenter's perspectives I have reached out to everyone that has used the community this month to get their feedback. we really do want to make the community as helpful and sustainable as possible for the people using it and really it seems that sticking with the current "Mods do not vet individual mutual aid requests. Donate at your own risk" is the best course of action and we will likely ban critical meta-posts of specific users going forward