Hello users of Hexbear!

Some of you may have noticed some new communities created, and one ... deleted.

I now come to you asking if anyone motivated enough would care to submit an application to become a moderator. You may do so through hexbear DM or through matrix DM (instructions at the end of the post)

We are specifically looking for new moderators in these communities (dunk tank, askchapo, memes, chat, politics, electoralism, doomer, covid, fashion, europe, travel, islam) but accepting applications for any community that you are interested in.

Also, if you would like to create a community please comment what the community is in this post or make a post in https://hexbear.net/c/commrequest

You may also use this post to comment any comments, questions, concerns, criticisms, or compliments related to hexbear, its moderation, or the community.

Thank you everyone for another year of great posting!!!

Application

What is your Hexbear username?

Do you have any preferred pronouns?

What are your thoughts on capitalism?

What are your thoughts on imperialism?

What are your thoughts on trans rights?

What are your thoughts on racial justice?

What do think about current and previous protests around the world?

What are your thoughts on Veganism and Animal Liberation?

Do you have any experience with other leftist online communities? What did those experiences teach you?

What is your approach to moderation, and how do you work with teams?

How do you deal with online drama and people who try to start things for the sake of it?

What current comms would you be interested in moderating? Do you have any ideas for community engagement?

What is your general time availability? (Time zone, amounts, common browsing times, etc)

Element information

Element is a messaging app that lets you talk to people over the Matrix protocol.

To get started, check out this link, where you can choose to either download Element for your platform or, if on a computer, open it in a browser ("Launch Element Web").

The instructions that follow are for the desktop application and the web application, but the process is similar on all apps:

  • Press "Create Account"
  • We host our own Matrix server, so if you want you can change matrix.org to chapo.chat. This is completely optional; users who sign up with a matrix.org username can still talk to people with chapo.chat username. (Note: It is chapo.chat, not hexbear.net. Also, registrations aren't always open on chapo.chat; if they're not, just create an account on matrix.org)
  • Fill in a username and password
  • Hit register, and you're done!
  • Egon
    ·
    3 months ago

    deleted by creator

    • PointAndClique [they/them]
      ·
      1 year ago

      I have never moderated anything in my life, but i excess often

      banger post from start to finish

      • Egon
        ·
        3 months ago

        deleted by creator

    • Grebgreb [he/him]
      ·
      1 year ago

      I would also like this. The trueanon sub's days are numbered and I'd just rather be able to get all that information here.

      • egg1918 [she/her]
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        1 year ago

        Yeah outside of a couple small subs the trueanon sub is the only reason I go on reddit-logo anymore.

        It would also be cool to have a similar minded community that doesn't have every second user spamming the r word and other edgy shit

        • Grebgreb [he/him]
          ·
          1 year ago

          That's another good point, maybe I never noticed it before but after reopening the sub's overall quality has felt much worse.

      • Egon
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        3 months ago

        deleted by creator

  • booty [he/him]
    ·
    1 year ago

    dont make me a mod, even fake internet responsibilities sound like way too much work for me. i reject any assertion that i should moderate anything. i will continue to eat candy and play video games in peace

  • 4zi [he/him, comrade/them]
    ·
    1 year ago

    Thank you mods for combatting liberalism on Main and keeping it free from non-mainpostingrat-salute

  • the_post_of_tom_joad [any, any]
    ·
    1 year ago

    I want to be asked but then politely decline! Oh dear! Oh no, I'm flattered, but I'm afraid i must pass

  • Yurt_Owl
    ·
    1 year ago

    Make me mod and I'll send the link bot to the shadow realm then cease all mod activity

  • kristina [she/her]
    ·
    1 year ago

    Also if anyone wants to mod c/traa lmk, always looking for more people to keep things together cat-trans

  • PurrLure [she/her]
    ·
    1 year ago

    Applying for mod on the doomer and fashion comms purely for goth aesthetics. sicko-fem

  • carpoftruth [any, any]
    ·
    1 year ago

    @CARCOSA@hexbear.net when you are eating food or getting a needle or doing sex or using a qtip or putting in contacts or anything else that involves inserting something into yourself do you ever say "you're in carcosa now"?

  • FLAMING_AUBURN_LOCKS [she/her]
    ·
    1 year ago

    i’d like to put forth myself as a candidate. i am longtime user who is terrible at posting, and who has never wavered in her dedication to making this community worse. if granted moderator powers, i would immediately use them to abuse my fellow users and DM minors sketchy stuff. furthermore, i’ll hurt myself if you don’t make me a mod.

    thank you for your consideration.

  • gumshoe [none/use name]
    ·
    1 year ago

    I hereby declare an official request for a trueanon community on Hexbear. There’s one on lemmygrad already but it has three subscribers and I became #2 and #3 after I figured out how to join a new instance.

    I know chapo essentially serves the same purpose, but a TA comm could be used to gather the alarmingly more regular headlines about new “Jeffery Epstein(s) of ____” and our Pepe Silvia-style effort posts.

    Plus I locked down the username and need to grow the investment

  • Comp4 [comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    I would only consider becoming a mod if the mod team is understaffed, and there is a high demand for mods. I do think it would be cool if we had more POC on the mod team, speaking as a black guy from Europe

    • Othello
      ·
      1 month ago

      deleted by creator

    • YearOfTheCommieDesktop [they/them]
      ·
      1 year ago

      I don't think they'd be asking like this if they weren't a bit understaffed, at least on certain comms. If you're online at all frequently anyhow, why not mod a comm or two? Mainly you just have to respond to reports afaik, so it'll show up in your inbox and you just remove the comment, ban, leave it in place, depending on if it's actually against the rules, and then clear the report as resolved

  • GinAndJuche
    ·
    1 year ago

    Make me a mod of badposting so I can start removing posts that are actually good.

  • tactical_trans_karen [she/her, comrade/them]
    ·
    1 year ago

    Phone: incoming call for moderators Me: decline and block number

    Fr though, only if the expectations are super low for my level of participation. I will never be on call or keep regular hours.

    • YearOfTheCommieDesktop [they/them]
      ·
      1 year ago

      @CARCOSA@hexbear.net just to clarify, there isn't a requirement to be on call or cover certain hours/shifts right?

      Afaik there's no hard requirement, if you're on the site regularly (like, most days, or even close to it, not all hours of the day) you are probably fine, people's reports show up as notifications same as replies/DMs

  • Thordros [he/him, comrade/them]
    ·
    1 year ago

    I'll be the Canada comm tyrant. I'm not gonna submit an application, though. That would be engaging with bourgeois electoralism or something.