Hello users of Hexbear!
Some of you may have noticed some new communities created, and one ... deleted.
I now come to you asking if anyone motivated enough would care to submit an application to become a moderator. You may do so through hexbear DM or through matrix DM (instructions at the end of the post)
We are specifically looking for new moderators in these communities (dunk tank, askchapo, memes, chat, politics, electoralism, doomer, covid, fashion, europe, travel, islam) but accepting applications for any community that you are interested in.
Also, if you would like to create a community please comment what the community is in this post or make a post in https://hexbear.net/c/commrequest
You may also use this post to comment any comments, questions, concerns, criticisms, or compliments related to hexbear, its moderation, or the community.
Thank you everyone for another year of great posting!!!
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 ("Launch Element Web").
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.orgtochapo.chat. This is completely optional; users who sign up with amatrix.orgusername can still talk to people withchapo.chatusername. (Note: It ischapo.chat, nothexbear.net. Also, registrations aren't always open onchapo.chat; if they're not, just create an account onmatrix.org) - Fill in a username and password
- Hit register, and you're done!
Hello this is my application. I have never moderated anything in my life, but i excess often.
I am incredibly biased and my rulings will be completely arbitrary, largely dependent on wether or not I agree with the user in question.
My hours will be irregular. They will vary. I will never be around when you need me.
For transparency: Langley currently pays me 10$ an hour, Xi pays me 8.75$ and Putin sends me a sexy picture of his feet every friday.
Please make me a siteadmin and hand me the keys to the website. I promise I will take good care of it, since I am 100% sane, 0% deranged.
Also comm request: Conspiracy. I would like to be able to discuss
and 
without hearing how it's actually the jews that did it.
People that wrinkle their nose at this stuff: Chicago PD blacksites were a conspiracy theory. Countless coups were conspiracy theories. "The Third Degree" was a conspiracy. Torture of US prisoners of war was a conspiracy. The murder of Ferguson Riot leaders is still a conspiracy. Epstein is a conspiracy. The business plot is a conspiracy.
making up claims was a conspiracy at one point. Same goes for radio free asia and the like. All of these things were scoffed at as conspiracies, until people managed to gather and detail the evidence that shows it to be true. That gathering effort is rarely done by an individual.
Having a comm that encourages the collection and dissipation of information about this kind of stuff is good actually.If, for some inane reason, the word conspiracy scares you, then the comm can be named c/pepe-silvia, though that will be very confusing.
I agree with everything you've said except name it c/fake_news so as to be even more confusing
I have never moderated anything in my life, but i excess often
banger post from start to finish
I would also like this. The trueanon sub's days are numbered and I'd just rather be able to get all that information here.
Yeah outside of a couple small subs the trueanon sub is the only reason I go on
anymore.It would also be cool to have a similar minded community that doesn't have every second user spamming the r word and other edgy shit
That's another good point, maybe I never noticed it before but after reopening the sub's overall quality has felt much worse.
I need more 9/11 posting. I know there's a user here that has made some incredible writeups.
They also shared one about Jim Jones being killed by the CIA. I wish I'd bookmarked it.I don't want hollow earth, flat earth, hollow moon, chemtrails and faked moonlanding discussions (except on fridays, which are for being silly).
dont make me a mod, even fake internet responsibilities sound like way too much work for me. i reject any assertion that i should moderate anything. i will continue to eat candy and play video games in peace
Thank you mods for combatting liberalism on Main and keeping it free from non-mainposting
I want to be asked but then politely decline! Oh dear! Oh no, I'm flattered, but I'm afraid i must pass
Make me mod and I'll send the link bot to the shadow realm then cease all mod activity
Also if anyone wants to mod c/traa lmk, always looking for more people to keep things together
sure go ahead and reply to one of the megathreads on c/traa and link it here
ill dm you in a bit once i add you
I could give a hand if you need, it make take me a little to get up to necessary levels of activity. I love traa and I want to do whatever I can to help it grow.
@CARCOSA@hexbear.net when you are eating food or getting a needle or doing sex or using a qtip or putting in contacts or anything else that involves inserting something into yourself do you ever say "you're in carcosa now"?
When you are about to do number 1 do you say "urine, Carcosa, now!" as well?
Applying for mod on the doomer and fashion comms purely for goth aesthetics.
i’d like to put forth myself as a candidate. i am longtime user who is terrible at posting, and who has never wavered in her dedication to making this community worse. if granted moderator powers, i would immediately use them to abuse my fellow users and DM minors sketchy stuff. furthermore, i’ll hurt myself if you don’t make me a mod.
thank you for your consideration.
Marx: “I don’t want to belong to any club that would accept me as one of its members.”
I hereby declare an official request for a trueanon community on Hexbear. There’s one on lemmygrad already but it has three subscribers and I became #2 and #3 after I figured out how to join a new instance.
I know chapo essentially serves the same purpose, but a TA comm could be used to gather the alarmingly more regular headlines about new “Jeffery Epstein(s) of ____” and our Pepe Silvia-style effort posts.
Plus I locked down the username and need to grow the investment
I would only consider becoming a mod if the mod team is understaffed, and there is a high demand for mods. I do think it would be cool if we had more POC on the mod team, speaking as a black guy from Europe
i was recently asked to be mod of em_poc! no one really post there though 😔. at least its easy.
I don't think they'd be asking like this if they weren't a bit understaffed, at least on certain comms. If you're online at all frequently anyhow, why not mod a comm or two? Mainly you just have to respond to reports afaik, so it'll show up in your inbox and you just remove the comment, ban, leave it in place, depending on if it's actually against the rules, and then clear the report as resolved
Make me a mod of badposting so I can start removing posts that are actually good.
Phone: incoming call for moderators Me: decline and block number
Fr though, only if the expectations are super low for my level of participation. I will never be on call or keep regular hours.
@CARCOSA@hexbear.net just to clarify, there isn't a requirement to be on call or cover certain hours/shifts right?
Afaik there's no hard requirement, if you're on the site regularly (like, most days, or even close to it, not all hours of the day) you are probably fine, people's reports show up as notifications same as replies/DMs
Alright, I'll apply. Extra people to keep the whiny libs out. Chuds can stay though, as pets.
I'll be the Canada comm tyrant. I'm not gonna submit an application, though. That would be engaging with bourgeois electoralism or something.
Let me into your house and give me the keys please
