Hexbear’s new head of operations just dropped, and their way of dealing with the fallout of their last struggle session is to hand bans out like candy to their concerned and disillusioned users while throwing out “epic” quips like insecure teenagers along the way coupled with their communication (and seemingly contempt) towards their own userbase which isn’t helping their allegations at all and the revelations that were learned about Hexbear’s moderators and admins from their most recent struggle session.

The last few days have honestly shaken my faith in Hexbear and their team and I hope the mods and admins at Lemmygrad are monitoring the situation closely.

  • Aradina [She/They]@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    4 days ago

    It seems they’re just trying to memory hole it now.

    The newest statement claims everyone was unbanned, which isn’t true. The sockpuppet being used for the new post claims that it was all drama over the AlaskaBall misgendering and banning, which isn’t true. So here’s my extremely biased version of events(They banned me for opposing their bullshit, thus creating this bias.)

    The mods wanted to rename the dunk tank, due to the racist origins, but due to federation reasons renaming communities doesn’t work properly, so they locked it and the dredge tank entirely and replaced them with poorly defined pseudo-replacements.

    People question this choice and are given a mod statement that misgenders most of the website at the same time, and contains a self-harm reference without a CW.

    People question this post and the admin that acted as the mouthpiece steps down. The thread is locked and a new one is made.

    Basically no one wanted that and most people want the admin back. The admin comes back.

    AlaskaBall bans themself from a new alt, and then when questioned on it, misgenders themself. This was the misunderstanding element of this.

    Stuff blows up massively now, since an admin seems to have done something very transphobic and uncool.

    Another thread is made, where dissenting voices are banned for three days. One of these bans is reversed and no longer shows in the mod log.

    TC69 does a “joke” and posts offering random bans to replies, she then bans people who don’t reply to that post with the same message.

    This is around when this thread is made.

    Then another thread, using a brand new admin alt, claims that the bans have been reversed (they haven’t)

    https://hexbear.net/u/DengistDonnieDarko

    https://hexbear.net/u/morte

    https://hexbear.net/u/chair

    https://hexbear.net/u/TerribleHands

    https://hexbear.net/u/REgon

    And the rest (me) remain banned. Only four of the banned users are actually unbanned.

    People have already pointed out that the bans haven’t actually been removed.

    Overall, the Hexbear admin team shoved a stick into their own bike wheel and are blaming he/hims, despite the obvious fact that can be seen by checking the pronouns of those linked users (and me).

    edit: I’m unbanned now