It's the dunk tank.
This is where you come to post big-brained hot takes by chuds, libs, or even fellow leftists, and tear them to itty-bitty pieces with precision dunkstrikes.
Rule 1: All posts must include links to the subject matter, and no identifying information should be redacted.
Rule 2: If your source is a reactionary website, please use archive.is instead of linking directly.
Rule 3: No sectarianism.
Rule 4: TERF/SWERFs Not Welcome
Rule 5: No ableism of any kind (that includes stuff like libt*rd)
Rule 6: Do not post fellow hexbears.
Rule 7: Do not individually target other instances' admins or moderators.
Rule 8: The subject of a post cannot be low hanging fruit, that is comments/posts made by a private person that have low amount of upvotes/likes/views. Comments/Posts made on other instances that are accessible from hexbear are an exception to this. Posts that do not meet this requirement can be posted to [email protected]
Rule 9: if you post ironic rage bait im going to make a personal visit to your house to make sure you never make this mistake again
I'm trans and I really don't want to federated with these people if their mods are defending the -tard suffix and they aren't getting de-modded and banned. I also don't want to be federated with them if they ban critiquing western chauvinism.
Someone who is an admin and with more of a level head than me RN please talk to their admins about it.
Banning comments critical of ableism is way beyond anything that a hexbear has ever done. This is absolutely damning stuff. This isn't a random user or something. It's ~~an admin~~ a mod over there.
It's a good illustration about differing values - hexbear takes bigotry very seriously while most online communities let it slide. And then other communities look at how unapologetically serious and mean we are about politics and decide we're irredeemable. Total values disconnect.
They are kinder to systems than they are to individuals
It's terminal stage "to each their own" permissiveness where the only forbidden takes are ones that say some takes are bad because they lead to hurting and killing people.
mod, not admin