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Kerryposting was a year long wrecker campaign against the site in which thousands of accounts were created to do nothing but spam pictures of John Kerry. They would get banned within minutes but they (hexbear.net)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/main@hexbear.net
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continued this for a very long time. They used bots for this and mass created thousands of accounts that they held on ice to use later, it was a real moderation pain. It was possibly the most persistent wrecker campaign I've seen against any site, ever. So they get some points of respect from me purely for that. It went on for so long.

Yes tagline, I was there for that, it was WEIRD.

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[–] 17 points 6 months ago (1 child)

Wait, they were wreckers? Always thought they were shitposters.

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  • [–] [S] 9 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah they were wreckers from discord, which one I don't remember, or what their original grievance with hexbear was.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago

    The OGs were two wreckers who had a beef with... I think Quill? Some bullshit claims about non-sexual chibi furry art that Quill drew for a friend being lolicon. That's about as much as I was able to piece together back then because god damn, that Discord was a shitshow.

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