Hello users of Hexbear, there have been many changes and some drama the past few months.
The recent changes we've been making have been an attempt to create a more safe and welcoming environment for many demographics that have been overlooked in the past.
For any of our comrades that have been unintentionally hurt in this process, we apologise and hope to find a solution that accommodates as many people as possible while still meeting the needs of the marginalised groups who need a space like this the most.
The intent of this post is to provide a space for all users to air grievances with regard to the site. As well as provide suggestions for specific things that could be changed to address your grievance. Comments insulting the mod team or those without a specific means to address your problem may be removed. No commenter will be sitebanned, unless it clearly breaks the code of conduct.
The only thing I think we need to do a better job on is being less harsh when moderating content that isn't directly and systemically harmful. There's a not very fine line between "this is systemically harmful" and "I don't understand this" or "the vibes of this are off" and there are times when the latter two are treated the same as the former.
If someone is being systemically harmful delete their shit and ban them if they won't fix it. No tolerance for intolerance.
If someone is being weird or their vibes are off...whatever? It's a tiny niche Internet forum by certain standards ALL of our vibes are off. Who cares. Let people be.
Basically posts should only be removed if they actually break the CoC and users should only be banned if they are frequent or egregious offenders.
That's just like my opinion though
I agree that we should work to engage with hexbear users in good faith and not jump to the worst interpretation of their post/comments