I guarantee that if every major subreddit is able to shut down on command like it has happened many times before
Speaking as someone that's been on the inside of these, they're actually just run by EXTREMELY organised and gifted agitators who are EXCELLENT at mass organising these things.
I've sat through and watched some of the blackouts and the way they're orchestrated, the organisation and ability to propel them forwards without allowing them to derail is incredibly impressive. I have watched a few play out in the moderator coordination discords that they pop up to coordinate them and I genuinely fucking wish we had people with their skillsets because it's seriously impressive stuff. I genuinely sit through some of what they have done and wondered how I'm ever going to build that skillset and I generally think I have a pretty good skillset as it is, it feels several tiers above what I'm capable of.
This is the reason why internet users don't respect moderators, they believe themselves to be the arbiters of truth when in reality they are glorified janitors whos main job is to clean up cp and goatse images. No man or committee should have the power to influence an entire site without the consent of the userbase, that's how social movements die on the internet. Mods try to control something they have no right to control, I'm not saying they should act with neutrality but by god, they are not the leaders.
On internet communities that has never been the case though. Every owner of a forum was previously a community marshall, creating the kind of community they want, and marshalling that community via leadership towards the kind of behaviour and attitudes that they want.
In consolidating all those forums into one place where people now operate many of them in collective groups, the same thing exists but is just larger.
It's also no different here on hexbear. The admins and mods are a leadership group who control and marshal the community towards the intended goal.
Speaking as someone that's been on the inside of these, they're actually just run by EXTREMELY organised and gifted agitators who are EXCELLENT at mass organising these things.
I've sat through and watched some of the blackouts and the way they're orchestrated, the organisation and ability to propel them forwards without allowing them to derail is incredibly impressive. I have watched a few play out in the moderator coordination discords that they pop up to coordinate them and I genuinely fucking wish we had people with their skillsets because it's seriously impressive stuff. I genuinely sit through some of what they have done and wondered how I'm ever going to build that skillset and I generally think I have a pretty good skillset as it is, it feels several tiers above what I'm capable of.
Unfortunately, they are fucking liberals.
This is the reason why internet users don't respect moderators, they believe themselves to be the arbiters of truth when in reality they are glorified janitors whos main job is to clean up cp and goatse images. No man or committee should have the power to influence an entire site without the consent of the userbase, that's how social movements die on the internet. Mods try to control something they have no right to control, I'm not saying they should act with neutrality but by god, they are not the leaders.
On internet communities that has never been the case though. Every owner of a forum was previously a community marshall, creating the kind of community they want, and marshalling that community via leadership towards the kind of behaviour and attitudes that they want.
In consolidating all those forums into one place where people now operate many of them in collective groups, the same thing exists but is just larger.
It's also no different here on hexbear. The admins and mods are a leadership group who control and marshal the community towards the intended goal.
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