Please don't look for posts from /u/hardtimes without a severe CW for scat and who knows what else at this point.

I think it's worth considering what kind of damage trolls, wreckers, and edgelords in general can do with such images in the future. @Frank@hexbear.net may have been right in that struggle session today; such open image posting may be a mistake.

  • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]M
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    il y a 1 an

    Honestly, somewhat restricted signups are pretty much always a good idea. Reduces bot spam (which we actually have had in the past) and stifles (or at least slows) wreckers

    • ImOnADiet
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      il y a 1 an

      I think so too, I know a lot of people go "it harms growth!!!!" but tbh if you're so put off by having to write like 3 sentences why you should be able to use the site I dont want you here anyways

        • kristina [she/her]
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          il y a 1 an

          i want literally every trans person in the globe here tho cat-trans

        • ImOnADiet
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          il y a 1 an

          exactly, from my understanding hexbear hasn't grown that much the last couple years anyways

          • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]M
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            il y a 1 an

            Most of our account growth is just the same posters making alts, and wreckers that we've banned. I wonder what the actual number of unbanned user accounts is.

            • ImOnADiet
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              il y a 1 an

              honestly I only even found out about this site like 6 months ago because of the second thought ama, and only made an account a month ago, there's almost 0 advertising of it across the internet I'm not surprised there hasn't been growth (not a bad thing)

              • ElGosso [he/him]
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                il y a 1 an

                We have a cozy little thing going shrug-outta-hecks We've tried a few times to expand the community but it never really ends very well - like when we invited /r/vegancirclejerk refugees and ended up banning almost all of them in a week for circlejerking too much.

              • BoarAvoir [they/them]A
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                il y a 1 an

                we were having such bad site performance issues shortly before that AMA that we barely promoted it out of concern on the part of some admins it might crash the site

                • ImOnADiet
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                  il y a 1 an

                  maybe I have bad brainworms but I find site lore like this so interesting lol

                • ImOnADiet
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                  il y a 1 an

                  Thank you! I'm already a liberal (and in your walls) garf-troll

    • spectre [he/him]
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      il y a 1 an

      I thinks it's a good compromise between the exposure we get from federation which will drive growth, against writing three sentences to get in.