submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [M] to c/emoji@hexbear.net
 

Hey all. I'd like to open an official discussion regarding the upturning of the prior Hexbear party line on an :israel-cool: emote proper with the unambiguous Zionist flag.

I want to preface this by saying this is not in a 'ceding the issue' way. Over the past year I've been trying to engage in self-crit w/rt the chauvinism I've internalized growing up in a Liberal Zionist household, and my personal viewpoint on it did a 180 some months back, so I want to reopen this discussion proper in my personal capacities as Self-Appointed Emote Czar.

The reason it's taken long enough beyond that is prior to July, I was essentially half-engaged with the site in order to finish out my degree. After that, it’s been mostly inertia of confirming with the admins and other /c/Judaism mods, as well as having to be rigorous about my job search personally giving me little free time to coordinate this.

I do not want to center myself in this conversation more than I inadvertently already have, so I will leave my own opinion on the issue as a comment rather than explaining further here.

The consensus we've roughly come to is to open up the discussion in an official manner for a day or so. After that, I'll weigh the discussion in an entirely vibes-based manner (sorry Dean Norris enjoyers) and we'll alter Hexbear party line on it accordingly.

lea-bounce

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[–] 51 points 1 year ago* (11 children)

Anyone who wants Z_poster to stay banned doesn't use the news mega lol. You can disagree with Z (I often do), but Z always has actually interesting and insightful things to say from a different perspective. Even if you never agree with Z, you're always challenged to think your own viewpoint through.

Edit: I think there are some people who demand everyone agree with a "hexbear line" or else get banned, and are opposed to letting people that see things differently stay and contribute/hash it out. It's often quite juvenile.

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I agree with this. There are also many, many other users who are just as if not more hostile than Z and they don't get banned even though they may directly attack other users.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    some of those other users are even moderators!

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    yeah, it sucks that the admin/mod/user struggle over cliqueishness hasn't really been addressed at all.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    I think we need some form of c/userunion back to tackle this. Maybe some mechanism to, like, "declassify" past mod discussions for transparency? After some time ofc, to avoid wreckers/other bad actors exploiting having knowledge of mod comms.

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  • I think there are some people who demand everyone agree with a "hexbear line" or else get banned, and are opposed to letting people that see things differently stay and contribute/hash it out. It's often quite juvenile.

    Honestly i wonder what the point of this site even having a block button is when people can just... press it and never have to see a take they disagree with again!

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I didn't even realize he was banned until now, I always see his posts.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    My own post started because I saw zposter was banned on the news megathread and investigated why...

    Here we are nearly 500 comments later.

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