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I remember that. Civility policing. All too familiar.
The outcome of their latest struggle session after their problematic mods crashed out again and made violent threats again is that there should be more civility policing. That being mean is fascism. No discussion about the zionist and social democratic positions of many of the mods and admins there, the latest driven out are Nakoichi (demodded earlier, now banned for violent threats against users), Lyudmila (of “holocaust emoji” fame) and Kristina (another part of the Nakoichi clique). However, mods and admins are still in place that have made death threats against me in the leaked modchat (Alaskaball) or requested IP de-anonymization to catch my many supposed alts (RedWizard, see the Z Battalion conspiracy) or who are social democrats and democratic party entryists (the entire electoralism/chapotraphouse mod lists with ‘Marx’ in their names or pfps). The users had a big struggle sessions where they drafted a big list of complaints, many of which are valid, but some of which are just civility policing and unrelated bullshit being shoved in. At least they drove out 3 of the problem admins/mods, but they still have a while to go. Also, ThousandBreaths heard me bring up Nakoichi making death threats and he ignored me. CARCOSA also lied during their PR channel a bunch of times, as proved by the mod chat leak.
The problem isn’t a “culture of bullying”. The problem is a mod culture of death threats, ideological incorrectness, and refusing to admit they’re ever wrong and instead doubling down by increasingly breaking their own rules against users. It’s not a site culture issue, it’s a mod culture issue.
They found my alt there and don’t even ban it anymore. They just site blocked it and purged it. You can’t even see the threads and comments PunishedWeezing was involved in. They’ve been nuked without any report on the modlog. This is just a couple days ago. They’re still doing their shit.
https://hexbear.net/post/6585856/6632053
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https://hexbear.net/post/6589652?scrollToComments=false
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https://lemmygrad.ml/post/9607247/7234322
notice that one user has just vanished
Can’t open a thread I was commenting in, as an example. The user is gone from the site entirely with no trail, right after they made a big stink about using the modlog to detail temporary bans in their new struggle session. They now are just disappearing me. Like wtf. I cannot log into the account, it says login credentials are incorrect. User doesn’t show up in search, user doesn’t show up in modlog.
If I’m such a wrecker why do they make it so easy by being a rotten pile of shit that makes death threats all the time, lies and has terrible op sec? Why do they threaten to doxx users and track IP addresses and go on witch hunts behind closed doors, and say they’re being transparent in public? That keeps taking the incorrect side in every ideological schism until forced by the userbase to comply?
I’m actually doing some investigation into this, not detective-wise just as I’m curious about these sort of things and I don’t want to open my mouth if I don’t know what I’m talking about. I have noticed that there is an option to purge entirely, like you said, from modlog, user-base, etc. I have noticed exactly what you’re describing with that already, it’s interesting to see it backed up as well. Trying to think of any other reason falls short to me.
Gonna be vague-posting, events like these that I’ve experienced in the past and much worse has lead me to some unsurprising conclusions that none of these actually have any effect on you if you know exactly how fortified you are. I’m comfortable. Not out of laziness or complacency, either. Not justifying anything (seriously, I’m not), just offering some advice for the future if it’s possible to take it. Curiously, I wonder if the account that was deleted entirely was the ones with certain logs attached. Did you save any of these?
On the other side of the coin, I do believe Nakoichi was punished. I had a talk with them a while ago about some hexbear events and they mentioned to me that they were removed from a moderator position. Was this something else? Sorry for the questions, am curious.
I did not mention or post the leaked mod chat on that account. I was in a completely unrelated discussion when I was purged. It’s especially egregious because they literally just spent like a week calming the userbase down about how they will do reforms and be better mods and document everything and be transparent. Now they’re disappearing accounts because they don’t want the blowback from bans.
If you are in a western country, strongly consider devoting time to leaving rather than reasoning with western leftists