I think that this would be the perfect post to get this community going.
Under my direction as admin of Hexbear I restructured the internal admin/moderator order. A large part of this restructure was to shift the majority of the site decisions to a larger collective of people dedicated to the site.
At the time I also reorganized the new moderator protocol to make it easier for new mods to be added and for those mods to have the power to appoint mods at will based on a vouching system. Only moderators who submitted an application were invited to an off-site moderation discussion room.
This room is where the proposals for the site were made, discussed, and voted upon. After a proposal was finished I would often write up a statement and post it for feedback and approval so that the entire process from proposal to post had as many opportunities as possible for the moderators to give input or present changes.
In light of the most recent decision I am taking responsibility as I established this decision-making process, I drafted the announcement post, I collected and edited the followup statement.
It is clear to me that I was mistaken in the effectiveness of this approach and that a more transparent approach is needed. As well as, creating more opportunities for user input need to be added.
I am more than happy to return to the admin team if the users want me to do so, but I am stepping away from all decision-making at an admin level. I will continue to be involved with Hexbear in any capacity I can and will not be leaving as a user.
Chapo.chat/Hexbear was never my project nor did I ever intend to take it over. My hope was to keep it going another day so the people that spent hours developing, coordinating, organizing, and educating on this platform could continue to do so. Everyone that has donated to mutual aid, organized fundraisers, wrote effort posts, and bad posts have done just as much if not more than I have.
I have faith in all the other admins both new and old to keep this place going and while I am happy to give my thoughts on any aspect of the site I think the best way to self-crit is to accept my mistakes and to let the other admins take the lead.
Thank you to everyone who has sent me kind comments and to those that continuously strive to make this place better.
Okay I'm not going to back off of the main point to get into a semantic argument about analysis. You said that the mod being "butchered" for "not wording things perfectly" proves that the user base as a problem with being entitled consumers. You try to frame this stance in class analysis in a thread where the same exact people from yesterday come to encourage the mod. Whatever flows downstream from broader society, regardless of whatever tendencies you see, the mod is clearly not butchered.
You can see tendencies everywhere. In order to connect that with the behavioral problems of the Hexbear user base, you'll need a little more explanation than just saying the tendencies exist and they come from broader society.
The two tendencies I've mentioned are the superiority complex of reaction culture that we inherited from Reddit, and the petty bourgeois dismissal of workers, particularly service workers. The latter is the dominant ideology in the US so I'm not surprised it persists here. We've all internalized it to some degree.
In any case, both tendencies, in fact nearly all interactions here, are going to be dominated by external factors and interests. There's no "hexbear working class" and "hexbear owning class" in any meaningful sense of the words. The people putting labor into the site naturally get more sway in how the site functions, and as a communist I couple this natural flow with an ideological stance that they should get more sway since they are performing the labor.