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.
I just want to acknowledge that we had a thread wherein users expressed anxiety that they would now be forced to post in the self-crit comm as part of moderation action against them. These users were assured that this was not the intention of the comm and that it was a place for voluntary self-reflection.
Basically immediately after this users started getting temp-banned and told that it would be made permanent if they didn't post to self-crit.
If this had not been answered already, I'll say this mistaken idea has been correfted and should not occur ever again.
Self-criticism, among quite a few other Marxist concepts that are often dogmatically thrown around here, only apply to be enforced upon members of a communist party. something hexbear is not. Therefore any such act of self-crit hereafter must be purely voluntary and not utilized as a tool to bludgeon over the head those whom empowered individuals may have petty disagreements with.
Appreciate the response. I had noticed it hasn't been happening more recently, but there also haven't been as many local bans so I wasn't sure if anything had changed there.
~~That requirement is no longer a site policy and won't be included in mod log reasons. We want people posting in that community to be genuine and not feel forced, which diminishes the meaning of those that choose to post there~~ Replied from inbox and hadn't seen Alaskaball's better reply