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i just assume they're still here with an alt like i am :specter-global:
I'm friends with a user on here on discord and he's not doing well and I'm worried about him :sadness:
Can confirm. I cycle through usernames, writing styles, and personalities every couple months. I've been here for at least a year in actuality.
For opsec reasons: Don't get too attached to one account.
The number of 2-year-old accounts that had issue with my basic-marxist position on "art for art's sake is a bourgeois invention, all art is routed in social forms and thus political" take a month ago was surprising. They also weren't super-active, they made basic posts every 2-4 weeks, maybe, sometimes a couple months of inactivity. But somehow were called to action to dogpile me and call me a Twitter-lib for, like, the most basic Marxist takes on art. Has me suspicious.
19th century capitalist France: invents l'art pour l'art
Them: Art for art's sake isn't bourgeois btw
the website can be kinda awful.
Almost every one of my negative experiences on this site is because I criticized someone's treat. It's especially remarkable how many times I've been called mentally ill by some treat defender because of that, because leftism is about hating on the mentally ill and using mental illness as a pejorative against treat critics. :so-true:
I think you're on to something there.
On the last part, removing downvotes seemed to be an improvement. Removing upvotes might help unless some unintended consequences lead to another 4ch!n where "anon" often meant botting and repetitive reposts where even the attempt to remove that via automated screening systems resulted in the incel hellpit known as /r9k/.
For the moment the mod system seems to be working better than it did before, but I don't know what to credit for that. It does seem to be a bit of a "black box" system now.
By extension, I don't know how, or even if it'd be a good idea, to codify (for lack of a better term) "treat defense" as a punishable offense no matter how petty, toxic, and sometimes feral it can get. I don't have all the answers.
I agree with you, and it is at a deeper level that I rarely touch upon myself.
It can be hard to challenge that complacency, even with the anti-sociality characteristics in mind, because at some level I do understand that people are tired, worn out, demoralized, and just want to work and rest and have entertainment in between (or sometimes during), and that such entertainment may have such a viscerally felt importance that it's seen as a personal offense, or even a threat, when that entertainment is criticized.
You may have right of it that it's the antisociality that could be the fairly punished offense of it. Not "Gambo sucks, so you're banned for being a Gambo fan" but "calling people mentally ill and concern trolling them about their mental health or lack thereof because they criticized Gambo is a punishable offense" may work.
In general if I criticize some treat I do it because I think something in the messaging or the ideological implications is potentially harmful. I rarely criticize the consumers directly first (except :my-hero: cultists, fuck 'em).
i generally like you, but you once called indian food a "treat" because i pushed back on a take of yours
I called the British specific version of it a treat, in particular the extraordinary rage from one user because of my tongue in cheek remark that the British plundered the world's local cuisines yet were kind of notorious for their stolen versions of it being bland or covered in beans or something.
If it was another time and a different argument than that, I don't remember. Besides, I don't think treats as a concept are automatically bad anyway, only how they're identified with or how culture interacts around them in hellworld.
that was me yes
and it wasn't extraordinary rage, as i said in that thread, just exasperation at an american doing the one joke, but with extra ignorance
we are pretty famous for having very good Indian food, as you would expect from somewhere with a large Indian populationno investigation, no right to speak and all that
and of course you don't respond to this lmao
the process is to become a mod is pretty easy so anyone who is curious can see inside the blackbox
That last paragraph is why I always feel like I have one foot out the door.
i got rejected for "not fitting in" lmao
not middle class enough i guess
I honestly see treat defenders and people complaining about how you should "let people have fun" far more in online spaces than irl. Treat defenders and treat defending don't really exist irl, at least in my own personal experience. I've seen far more celeb and sports defending among my coworkers. Let's put it this way: people aren't going to start throwing hands because you said Game of Thrones has gratuitous nudity and violence or the sequels are worse than the prequels. But talk shit about someone's favorite team, especially if they're a serious fan and you're a fan of the rival team? Yeah, you're going to get a very different response than calling their childhood cartoon a glorified toy commercial.
So many of you guys and its hard to keep anyone straight, other than the handful of power posters - Ulysses, DirtOwl, NeeraTanden, etc.
I'll pour one out for the fallen, but honestly if you learned to log the fuck off and touch grass I assume you've Left Omelas and are in a better place.
It was funny to see 7deadlyfetishes fiasco go down, mostly because I was always annoyed with the "signing every post/comment" bit
Are there any screencaps of what went down? I still see them being taken seriously within the leftist gun "community", if you wanna call reddit and Twitter a community
I had to look through the modlog because I even forgot. The final straw was them defending imperialist troops in Vietnam, pulling out the typical argument of "oh they didn't have a choice, they were drafted, they were just heckin poor bois who didn't really hate the foreigners uWu"
Before that they were unironically calling people tankies. In the year of our lord 2021 on hexbear dot net :what-the-hell:
it wasn't even so much about 7DF libbing out as it was they were a real asshole about it
Do not, my friends, become addicted to keeping your account...
For real, this account of mine is not great for opsec. I try to be careful, but when you have over 6k comments through 2.5 years... someone with enough dedication or some AI program could probably get more information about me than I'd be comfortable with.
Once we get out of bunker mode I plan on reviewing all my comments and scrubbing out anything remotely personal. Then I plan on retiring this account (not deleting it, just not using it) and starting a new one. But that's at least gonna take me a full day, maybe more. I'd also like to only ever use Hexbear when I'm on a VPN because I haven't been consistent with that on this account.
I wish I just created new accounts instead of sticking with this one the whole time, would have been a lot easier. I definitely encourage you all to do that.
Hope folks have been sticking around under new accounts.
But I do miss EugeneVDabs (don't we all) and JoeySteel; even though with Joey they just couldn't keep the lid on the sectarianism and they sourced Grover Furr way more than I would have liked, they always were super informative.
Luckily the "Next" button on account overviews is broken so nobody will ever see our older posts!
Before the bunker mode change you just had to click "next" and then reload the page, then it would load your old comments
I've had 20+ accounts here and probably 4X as many :reddit-logo: accounts
Yeah, I decided to delete my couple years old :reddit-logo: account about a week ago. Of course, I went out in style and got my ass permabanned.
I still keep around a main for hobbies and non-political stuff. :reddit-logo: sucks but at least the hobby subreddits aren't half bad. I supplement with those until I find niche forums that I like, such as this one
Here's a handy reddit account and comment overwrite script. It looks complicated but I figured it so I'm sure most people can. https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite
Right but I don't want to delete my comments, just remove specific information. I'm not saying I'm some wise sage of communism but you never know what posts and comments others might find helpful. I don't mind taking a day for that.
It's kind of a bummer when people do that. I had some comments starred to go back to, and when I did, they were gone because the account was deleted.
Yeah, there are definitely some people I wish I could have gotten closer with, but with the need for opsec and all it's tough. I've been lucky to be friendly with a few people on here and it's nice when things fall into place like that
I'm sorry I don't remember more details, and of course they're lost in the archiving, but riley did come back a few months ago to say she was still alive. So that thread was not the last we heard from her.
I occasionally worry about that person who posted about doing lots of meth and shit
Weren't they a right-wing troll and always asking for money? There was someone doing that and posting about doing it on r/Redscarepod or something at one point. Could have been someone else.
she was asking for money because she was homeless and addicted and needed money.
never believe anything you read on the red scare sub
I remember that happening, but I’m pretty sure it was a different user than rachel.
Probably was someone else. I definitely remember this person being trans (or pretending) and having multiple iffy opinions that people kept excusing because they said they were trans/poor/etc.
I hope he comes back to the pod like he was never gone. Like 30 minutes into an episode he makes a good joke.
the old admin team, @TransComrade69 @QuillQuote @Beatnik along with others. i miss them
A guy posted as Jar Jar Binks and roleplayed about how big his blue balls were. Completely in character.
I think about him and worry about what on earth would drive a man to such depths of madness.
wait I don't remember posting Ghislaine topless are you sure that was me
I only have parasocial relationships here so it takes away a bit of the sting I guess. :grill:
