this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2025
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mods this might be a metapost idk but if it matters at all I'm mostly posting because it's really funny that CARCOSA got banned, idrc about basedball as much.
No, if you were going to post like db0, you would say that you don't actually care that much, that your opposition is the one who are mad, post a wall of text saying as much, while also insulting the level of intelligence of the person you are talking to, then end that post with 'disengage' thus abusing the rule.
You can't do anymore damage to the rule than db0 has already done himself.
Be that as it may I'll talk with the !neurodiverse@hexbear.net and !disabled@hexbear.net mods/users to explore making a discussion post on what the mod team could do better to support our ND comrades and combat ableism.
Thanks for the comment
Let me preface this by saying that, from what I have seen in screenshots, there was no ableism against db, db was just not taking care of themself by compulsively replying and getting mad at people replying to their replies, like it's "ableism" to not let someone have the last word.
Which makes it really gross that they are taking the real complaints hexbears have had about the broader HB culture and cynically weaponized it by distorting the very concept of ableism. The real complaints that I've seen are almost the inverse, which are that certain comrades, particularly ones on a certain part of the spectrum, get labeled as "debate bros" and otherwise disparaged, getting comments deleted, sometimes even getting banned, when basically what happened was that they disagreed and were failing to let it go. There is such a thing as a "debate bro," and we encounter them here often enough, but it can also effectively become a progressive-sounding way of saying "this autist keeps participating in this argument and I don't feel like either engaging in good faith or ignoring it, so I'm going to just say they are a (white?) male chauvinist who is obliged to give me the last word."
I've seen this complaint from at least three or four different people, though I think most of them aren't around anymore.
I really want to try and make a post for users to communicate this to us so we can make a concrete plan for remedying this, I'm talking to the !neurodiverse@hexbear.net and !disabled@hexbear.net mods on the best way to go forward. Thanks for the comment
I have complete confidence that you care and want to make things better, I just wanted to mention it while I was thinking about it.
hurt people hurt people
I think making jokes about an important rule being abused for petty drama bait is good and funny.
BanSwitch2Buyers was immediately recognizable as DayOfDoom.
Is it the same person as based_ball? I wasn't paying close enough attention then.
I wanna believe it is because it's funny, I think the only real similarity is the consistently weird posting style and the occasional music posts with "extremely online" music taste.
wait wasn’t that Melina? wait are all 3 the same person???
ah u know what nvm, this shits boring
DayOfDoom was leagues funnier than Melina. More problematic, perhaps less self-aware, and more hilarious.
Almost in the same ballpark as BMF.
actually yeah, once against my better judgment i did a deep dive on old hexbear dramas because i'm mentally ill and dod was genuinely very funny. can't say the same for melina.
going to scoop out the part of my brain containing the deep lore on recurring hexbear trolls now and
Its not melina
These are not the melinas you're looking for starwars.gif