I've noticed a lot of :morshupls: and :debatebro-l: from carnists going unmoderated in this community even after being reported and was wondering why. I decided to have a look at the list of mods to find out, and discovered the following:

  • @ella has not made a post or comment on Hexbear since December 2021.
  • @DashEightMate has not made a post or comment on Hexbear since May 2021.
  • @Dirtbag has never made a post or comment on Hexbear.
  • @Kanna posts or comments on a fairly regular basis - once a week or so - but this clearly isn't enough for the only active mod of this community.

If c/vegan is going to be in any sense useable as a place for vegans to discuss our ideas in a friendly environment, rather than yet another platform on which we must battle carnists at every turn, we're going to need some new blood on the mod team.

  • Dryad [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    The reactionaries might outnumber us, but this isn't a democracy. This site is (theoretically, in the rules) aligned with animal liberation. Multiple users have caught site-wide bans already for being anti-vegan. I don't see any reason we should seek to reduce the number of reactionary anti-vegans that happens to. I don't want to "coexist" with them, I want them to show themselves and get banned.