Hello users of Hexbear, the mod team wishes to announce that going forward:
- Moderators will be asked to remove comments that are off-topic, unproductive to the post's discussion, hostile, or wrecker-jacketing/alt-jacketing.
- Moderators will be asked to lock posts that become excessively hostile and are unable to sustain productive discussion.
- Moderators will be asked to remove meta posts and comments that are not in the feedback community.
- Moderators will be asked to remove posts made to call out other users directly or indirectly
Anyone suspecting a user to be a wrecker, report and move on, publically calling the user a wrecker does not help, and in the case of a genuine post actively harms.
Please do not use account age as a test for the validity of a user, as there are many 2-year-old accounts that resurface to troll, and we wish to reduce hostility, especially against users with new accounts.
Please engage with fellows users positively and assume good-faith until proven otherwise!
As with other rules, the code of conduct will soon be updated and users repeatedly violating the code of conduct will be banned.
Thank you and Viva Hexbear!
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Not a fan of this tbh. This is pretty common on reddit as a derailing rule and it's not great. I know i'm complaining about a free service here and all, but I figure we have upbears for this and you could achieve much the same by hiding comments that are -x% below other posts from view
Perhaps its a good excuse to get rid of upbears entirely. Does everything on the internet really need a 'like' button? A while back I discovered that Microsoft Outlook now allows you to send thumbs-up notifications in response to fucking work emails. Maybe liking/upvoting/etc is being included a bit thoughtlessly in stuff these days and it is actually unnecessary?
but many bears gives me dopamine
how else will i satiate my hunger for approval and perception as socially competent
Literally the only reason to use these websites
It allowed me to send angry face emojis to the IT department when they formatted our MS teams and made us create everything again, it's worth it for that reason alone.
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I would love this
I use upbears to track comments I've already read so I can come back to the thread and harass people I'm targeting easier.
IT's like the last source of dopamine I have okay?
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Would make it feel much more like old forums. I am for it, though unsure how the algorithm works with engagement and whether or not that can be weaponized negatively some way ala bumps and whatnot
Liking a post gives other people a chance to show they like or agree with a post without having to directly comment. It's important to not clog up every single discussion with the same opinion said over and over by different people, and it also allows people to engage in a way that doesnt require as much effort as writing a whole post themselves.
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I read this comment and upbeared it
Seconded. I know the intent is good, but the implementation is inevitably mods playing favorites.
Fuck that. I throw more money at Hexbear maintenance per month than I spend on podcasts. You have my permission to complain to your heart's content.
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:-/ Going to report mod-abuse to the mods?
Listen, I like this website and I generally like the people who run it. That's why I'm here. That's probably why I haven't said anything that would have gotten me banned on Reddit.
But come on, dude.
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But who watches the watchers who watch the watchers?
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I knew it! I knew all the banned users were actually a super plus ultra group who watched the watchers who watched the watchers who-
posts you can hear, including the background music
not doing this?
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ombuds, but i wouldn't know anything about setting that up
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That sounds suspiciously like not posting, which is haram.
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I get in the sense of what's possible to do with the given resources and what ain't but can this at least be put on the roadmap or something? There's already a system in place for people to decide what constitutes good or bad contributions to discussion, be grand if that were used for this
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I am satisfied with this answer within the given system