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.
At bare minimum, the admins could apologize to the user for their lack of urgency in addressing the issue. It was obvious the wrecker was a Hexbear alt because they knew the user was South African and even knew they were a white South African, which is not something any rando would know. Once it got to the point where the wrecker started threatening to slit the throats of that user’s family in their sleep, it was time to lock the thread and take immediate action, which the admins failed to do so. The admins didn’t do shit outside of eventually defedding from the offending instance after I requested they do so.
I disagree that it’s obvious the wrecker was a hexbear alt
How can you say that this isn’t a wrecker that lurks the news mega, who saw this info and decided to target people that often posted in the news mega; aaaaadjsf and regon.
aaaaaadjsf mentioned those bits of info more than once, so I disagree that only a hexbear user would know that information.
i agree we could always react faster but that isn’t a personal thing, we are people too and we try to have an overlap of admin level mod tools but sometimes life happens. Which is why we always need more community level mods to further extend our ability to deal with wreckers.
@aaaaaaadjsf@lemmygrad.ml I am sorry we did not act faster in dealing with the threats against you, I am genuinely sorry that this experience has made this space feel unsafe for you in addition to the anguish caused by that individual targeting.
Well, there’s this entire thread for one: https://hexbear.net/comment/5782662
You have the same people: Regon, Waterbottle who claims to be an alt of Melina and got banned for being an alt of Melina, Red_Renewal_Cosmonaut who’s very obviously an alt of HelltakerHomosexual, and that same Debatebro_X account. I have an extraordinary hard time believing that Debatebro_X is a genuine stranger to those three. Did Debatebro_X just coincidentally stumble upon another thread with Melina and HelltakerHomosexual feuding with Regon, and under alts no less. To me, if Debatebro_X isn’t an alt of one of those three or another Hexbear account, Debatebro_X is a friend who knows and is communicating one of them through Discord, Steam, another lemmy instance, and so on.
What’s even more troubling is Melina’s massive accusation against Regon, even going so far as to accuse Regon of being behind those Debatebro_X accounts. That accusation still stands completely unaltered as of this comment and in a locked post no less, meaning some mod saw the accusation and thought it had enough merit to not be removed. Well, if that accusation has merit, then shouldn’t Regon be permabanned for threatening another Hexbear user’s family? And if the accusation is completely meritless, then why is it still up 18 days later?
That’s the exact situation I described, wreckers lurk and watch for a struggle session and jump on it to sow divisiveness.
We cannot know for sure who is behind it so in pursuit of assuming good-faith of our fellow hexbear users I think that rather than two people who use(d) the site as a safe space wrecking it that it is instead a nazi weirdo who stalks the site trying to wedge segments of the userbases
Waterbottle was banned soon after that and the comment you referenced was missed, i have now removed it, thank you for reporting it. I cannot speak for the perosn who locked the post but often times stray comments are missed on a banned account. I’m sorry to @REgon@hexbear.net for missing that and having that accusation stay up for so long.