Yeah, that was a stupid time.

Glad users in more recent times are mature enough to just quietly go elsewhere instead of trying to make an unnecessary and annoying spectacle out of it.

  • disco [any]
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    3 years ago

    I think a lot of it was a product of well intentioned initial moderation decisions. Hexbear V1 had too much transparency.

    The user union comm seemed like a good idea, but letting users or their friends debate bannings with the mods invited the mods to get into public arguments with the users, which was just a recipe for hurt feelings on all sides. That lead to certain users having personal vendettas against individual mods and waging wars against them, and that lead to the mods getting fed up, which led to them being shitty to the users, and the cycle went on and on leading to an endless cycle of dumb internet bullshit.

    Things run much more smoothly now that the mods just quietly disappear users accounts in the night, like the stasi.

    • jkfjfhkdfgdfb [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      maybe the mods could just be reasonable fucking human beings instead of

      the mods getting fed up, which led to them being shitty to the users