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

  • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    18·
    8 days ago

    I don’t think there’s some cabal. I mostly think they’re incompetent who are slow to selfcrit when they inevitably fuck up due to large egos and no real ability for the userbase to hold them accountable. By all accounts, Nakoichi will continue being a mod because nothing’s going to stop them from continue being a mod, ZPoster will deploy their 426th alt with everyone in the news mega and most of Hexbear dot net knowing which account is the alt, and all of this will be quietly swept under the rug with some people referencing this struggle session when a new struggle session involving the mods and admins pop up.

    But hey, at least we got a new emote.

    • trinicorn [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      8·
      8 days ago

      I mostly think they’re incompetent who are slow to selfcrit when they inevitably fuck up

      harsh but largely agreed

      due to large egos and no real ability for the userbase to hold them accountable

      not sure I buy this part as the primary reason

      By all accounts, Nakoichi will continue being a mod because nothing’s going to stop them from continue being a mod, ZPoster will deploy their 426th alt with everyone in the news mega and most of Hexbear dot net knowing which account is the alt, and all of this will be quietly swept under the rug

      I could see it happening, but I hope you are wrong. Mod status has to have some raised expectations of de-escalation and ability to stay cool, and being a noxious gaslighter should also have consequences. There’s making a new anonymous account, fine, but then there’s wink-wink nudge-nudge shit like zposter has been doing forever