It was the opposite, one admin gave Beluga a temp ban for DM harassment, a second admin changed it to a perm ban with the reasoning that Beulga was making alts to harass, and then went back and changed the perm ban reasoning to DM harassment. This happened in a relatively short period of time but you are correct that jumping to conclusions is not helpful at all

Yea I know it's confusing I'm sorry.

Beluga was temp banned for DM harassment, then the ban was changed to permanent when they were suspected of doing the alts but the ban reason was reverted to the previous reason as there is no way to prove who did the wrecker/harass alts.

Could you please edit out that Melina made the alts, it was not them rather an outside wrecking source either the HexbearHates lemmyclubtroll or db0 as he leaked private communications a la the matrix screenshot of me

Could you please edit out that Melina made the alts, it was not them rather an outside wrecking source either the HexbearHates lemmyclubtroll or db0 as he leaked private communications a la the matrix screenshot of me

I am working on creating a matrix space that would be where all site proposals are posted, discussed and voted on. This space could also be where feedback and mod action appeals can be posted. Discussion regarding each proposal, appeal, or feedback would be within a thread under the top-level message.

It is open to join for anyone, the history of the channel can be seen and voted on, however only people that verify their hexbear account can send messages.

This is very much a work in progress and may change in the next couple of week but our priority is to change things to improve transparency/user engagement in the steering of the site

We are going to let things settle and if !main@hexbear.net !chapotraphouse@hexbear.net !gossip@hexbear.net and !counterpropaganda@hexbear.net are insufficient replacements for the posts that used to go into the tanks we will open a space for users to give input on what should be done. there is a post in !commrequest@hexbear.net for potential names

Thank you for commenting, and I truly apologize that you were dismissed, ignored, mocked, shamed, and banned.

Many mistakes were made from the discussion of the change, the communication of the change, and the followup response. I am saddened by the impact it has had on you and others who were unfairly judged as something you were not.

The admin that banned you is no longer one and has deleted all her accounts, and we are in the process of changing our internal structure to have more transparency and ability for all users to participate in the proposals for site change.

I know that it will take much more than these words to get back to any level of trust that may have existed before. Any other thoughts you may have on the matter or ideas on how we may move forward I am more than happy to listen.

we are considering a dedicated matrix room that anyone with a hexbear account can view/send messages where all future site changes are proposed, voted on and discussed. this room would be only used for proposals and the discussion of them.

It is possible however during the period of time in which the modlog was not anonymized multiple moderators were harassed, some were targeted by dedicated wreckers and doxxed. We will not be deanonymizing the modlog for that reason, however we are setting up a formalized structure for appealing mod action and creating an avenue for users to hold the admin/mod team responsible when mistakes like these are made.

Thank you for the words of advice and support. I will not be stepping down, and our next priority is to change the decision-making process to make it more transparent and increase user participation.

Thank you for the resource, will share with the others. I think you captured a core element of the problem

That was the result of someone who is no longer part of the admin team, and we have established clear boundaries regarding the use of siteban on hexbear users to prevent this from occurring again.

It is an issue / known bug with local only communities which !anti_cishet_aktion@hexbear.net is

I think it will be fixed in the next update

thank you for the reply, I did take some time to do exactly that emotionally.

What you described is exactly how this should have been handled, and we are working to establish a process for every decision along those lines going forward.

The only explanation I can give is that from the perspective of the mods discussing this change the gossip and counterprop communities would be a near 1:1 replacement for the communities just divided a little bit differently, while cth and main could serve as places for anything people did not feel was appropriate for the new communities.

Grave mistakes were also made in how the change was announced as well as the follow-up reasoning, clearly everyone would have been better served by handling this in a more transparent way with the ability for users to give their input, and I hope that the entire mod team and I can do the work to repair the damage done by the past couple days.

The person who was making the alts was not a mod and does not have any unbanned hexbear accounts, the instance they were using to make the wrecker alts has been temporarily removed from our allow-list.

She made the choice to delete her account

At this moment, I will not nor ever in the foreseeable future step down. I live in a small and inconsequential part of the world, and the opportunity to steward a project that improves lives in the world is one of the most important things I can do.

We will change the internal system to increase transparency and get user input, but we want to wait a few weeks for things to settle down before opening up a new front.

I can't be specific but it is 100% digital

in addition the instance being used to spin up the alts has been removed from the allow-list