The prominent user who left recently made me realize that while this place is a lot less full of bigotry than reddit, that is a low fucking bar.

What are concrete steps users and mods can take to make this a more welcoming space? I'm assuming the majority of the bigotry is coming from inside the house, bar the occasional raid.

Banning shitstains is good and all, but that is only a part of community management. How do we proactively create a better user culture here? How do we better establish norms of behavior?

  • read_freire [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    if I feel less self-conscious about where my programming skills are at

    I can't speak for hexbear in particular, but in general if you're willing to write code for a project and not be an asshole you'll get a lot of help if you ask. It's not like they're gonna make you invert a binary tree on a white board to prove your 1337 coding skillz before they let you submit a PR.