That's a good question. Bullying trolls and chuds is a good way to get them to leave, but that's kind of it. Being an asshole online (in many forms, not just telling people to post hog on here) has some big limitations if the goal is anything else.
I think one of the more important jobs it does is dismantle the image of the left as weak, an image that has been very successfully forced on the left due to the way liberal moralisers have always behaved. We must be careful not to become moralisers, and utilise available strategies as and when they are appropriate tools to do so.
Our community image online should be one that creates curiosity in people when they hear about us. If the chuds talk about us as absolute psychopaths that make them uncomfortable while the left talks about us as a place that has cool content and cooler people then we would be doing something right. What we need to focus on however is the content, having content here that is consistently the content people want to see elsewhere.
Why? Because content can't be propagandised about. You can't go into discords and reddit communities and tell people that all we do is have struggle sessions and fight over pronouns or vegans or whatever silly shit is flavour of the week in regards to CONTENT. People will see Hexbear content posted elsewhere and say "I want to see more of this" and thus come to the site.
What matters is content, content, content. The community behaviour is actually secondary and simply something internal in my opinion.
That's a good question. Bullying trolls and chuds is a good way to get them to leave, but that's kind of it. Being an asshole online (in many forms, not just telling people to post hog on here) has some big limitations if the goal is anything else.
I think one of the more important jobs it does is dismantle the image of the left as weak, an image that has been very successfully forced on the left due to the way liberal moralisers have always behaved. We must be careful not to become moralisers, and utilise available strategies as and when they are appropriate tools to do so.
Our community image online should be one that creates curiosity in people when they hear about us. If the chuds talk about us as absolute psychopaths that make them uncomfortable while the left talks about us as a place that has cool content and cooler people then we would be doing something right. What we need to focus on however is the content, having content here that is consistently the content people want to see elsewhere.
Why? Because content can't be propagandised about. You can't go into discords and reddit communities and tell people that all we do is have struggle sessions and fight over pronouns or vegans or whatever silly shit is flavour of the week in regards to CONTENT. People will see Hexbear content posted elsewhere and say "I want to see more of this" and thus come to the site.
What matters is content, content, content. The community behaviour is actually secondary and simply something internal in my opinion.