"Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and uproot from our land but from our minds as well." - Frantz Fanon
Hello users of Hexbear, the intent of this announcement is two-fold the first is that we would like to do another community moderator drive, if you have a community idea or want to help an existing one then please send an application either through hexbear or matrix direct message.
The call for new mods is crucial to our efforts to reduce racism and misogyny on the site, we need users to report and enough mods to be able to quickly act on the reports throughout the day and night. Also, CW or content warnings are essential to the safe browsing of Hexbear.
In addition, comments or posts removed for racist or misogyny will also be accompanied by escalating temporary bans. Upvotes will not be the single reason for a ban, however they may be used in conjunction with other posts/comments/upvotes. Consider this post the warning, however, mods are encouraged to reach out to hexbear users before a long duration ban.
The second is to increase transparency with regard to the site while not repeating the mistakes of previous attempts that were ultimately counterproductive, in part due to wreckers.
Previous attempts to increase site transparency and user participation were targeted by wreckers through increasing the intensity and frequency of struggle session drama.
Using matrix's increased level of user permissions as an anti-wrecking measure while having an increased barrier to sending messages with a clear process to gaining the ability to send messages, we hope to mitigate wrecking attempts.
Leading to the creation of the Hexbear Proposals chapo.chat matrix room.
This will be a place for site proposals and discussion before implementation on the site.
Every proposal will also be mirrored into a pinned post on the hexbear community. Any other ideas for helping to integrate the two spaces are welcome to be commented here or messaged to me directly.
Within Hexbear Proposals you can see the history of all site proposals and react to them, indicating a vote for or against a proposal.
Sending messages will be restricted to verified and active hexbear accounts older than 1 month with their matrix id in their hexbear user profile.
All top level messages within the channel must be a Proposals (idea for changing the site), Feedback (regarding non-technical aspects of the site, for technical please use https://hexbear.net/c/feedback), or Appeals (regarding admin/moderator actions).
Discussion regarding these will be within nested threads under the post.
To gain matrix verification, all you need to do is navigate to my hexbear userprofile and click the send a secure private message including your hexbear username.
In closing, I want to state that this site would not exist without the volunteer labor of the moderators, who I am deeply grateful for.
I would also like to take this moment to remind people that lemmy direct messages are not encrypted, and finally please use this post to discuss these changes, share community ideas, or express interest in moderation.
Application
What is your Hexbear username?
Do you have any preferred pronouns?
What are your thoughts on capitalism?
What are your thoughts on imperialism?
What are your thoughts on trans rights?
What are your thoughts on racial justice?
What do think about current and previous protests around the world?
What are your thoughts on Veganism and Animal Liberation?
Do you have any experience with other leftist online communities?
What did those experiences teach you?
What is your approach to moderation, and how do you work with teams?
How do you deal with online drama and people who try to start things for the sake of it?
What current comms would you be interested in moderating?
Do you have any ideas for community engagement?
What is your general time availability? (Time zone, amounts, common browsing times, etc)
Element information
Element is a messaging app that lets you talk to people over the Matrix protocol.
To get started, check out this link, where you can choose to either download Element for your platform or, if on a computer, open it in a browser.
The instructions that follow are for the desktop application and the web application, but the process is similar on all apps:
Press "Create Account"
We host our own Matrix server, so if you want you can change matrix.org to chapo.chat.
This is completely optional; users who sign up with a matrix.org username can still talk to people with chapo.chat username.
(Note: It is chapo.chat, not hexbear.net. Also, registrations aren't always open on chapo.chat; if they're not, just create an account on matrix.org)
Fill in a username and password
Hit register, and you're done!
Going to publicly cast my no on this based on the past behavior I've seen from you.
I agree. But no one in this thread seems to realize she's already a mod for 2 comms and has been for quite a while. Unless I'm missing something and being a moderator is different than modding a comm? Going tag @Frank@hexbear.net and @Thordros@hexbear.net since they stated concern about it too. A piece of the whole blowup a week ago involved people unhappy about the fact that she is a mod.
There ought to be a means for average Hexbear accounts to reject mod candidates. And I'm not talking about Helltaker but more about the former account Pluto, who was mod of like 7+ comms after only spending a week here and who was only here after getting chased off of lemmygrad. And he kept on acquiring more and more modships before being unceremoniously striped of them all because he doxxed another mod's real-life location before getting banned for shilling for the CPUSA too hard.
None of that shit would've happened if he hadn't been made mod of those initial 7+ comms in the first place. I've always hated that he was made mod in such a short amount of time, but there was no proper means for me to air out my grievances outside of DMing each admin individually like a fucking loser or starting a public call-out post, which would almost certainly have been removed for being "meta." Even better, there should've been a means where Pluto as a mod candidate was brought forth before the community and questioned by the community about the drama which lead to him being banned in lemmygrad and why a new Hexbear account thinks they are capable of modding 7 comms. This could be as simple as the admins posting a new mod introduction sticky and people being allowed to comment, praise, and condemn the new mods.
I recognized that Pluto was going to be trouble from the jump. Anyone who comes in here and immediately starts talking shit about the community they just left should not be made a mod.
People did point that out when Pluto got appointed as mod and it got hand-waved away.
Agreed. Vesting Helltaker with any responsibility over the site would be a gross violation of community trust.
I upbeared this because I agree. I hope I don't get banned.
Jokes aside, getting worried about the direction this site is taking. "Not Good"
trust that it is being taken into consideration
I just don't think you're in a good place to be a mod, especially during a time when the rest of us hb posters are at odds with the current moderation.