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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  • Orcocracy [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    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?

    • RION [she/her]
      ·
      2 years ago

      but many bears gives me dopamine

      how else will i satiate my hunger for approval and perception as socially competent

      • ElGosso [he/him]
        ·
        2 years ago

        Literally the only reason to use these websites

    • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      Microsoft Outlook now allows you to send thumbs-up notifications in response to fucking work emails

      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.

    • layla
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      2 years ago

      :sicko-yes:

      I would love this

    • StellarTabi [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      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.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Does everything on the internet really need a ‘like’ button?

      IT's like the last source of dopamine I have okay?

    • Grandpa_garbagio [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      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

    • Asa_the_Red [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      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.

    • usa_suxxx
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      11 days ago

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