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Hey all. I'd like to open an official discussion regarding the upturning of the prior Hexbear party line on an :israel-cool: emote proper with the unambiguous Zionist flag.

I want to preface this by saying this is not in a 'ceding the issue' way. Over the past year I've been trying to engage in self-crit w/rt the chauvinism I've internalized growing up in a Liberal Zionist household, and my personal viewpoint on it did a 180 some months back, so I want to reopen this discussion proper in my personal capacities as Self-Appointed Emote Czar.

The reason it's taken long enough beyond that is prior to July, I was essentially half-engaged with the site in order to finish out my degree. After that, it’s been mostly inertia of confirming with the admins and other /c/Judaism mods, as well as having to be rigorous about my job search personally giving me little free time to coordinate this.

I do not want to center myself in this conversation more than I inadvertently already have, so I will leave my own opinion on the issue as a comment rather than explaining further here.

The consensus we've roughly come to is to open up the discussion in an official manner for a day or so. After that, I'll weigh the discussion in an entirely vibes-based manner (sorry Dean Norris enjoyers) and we'll alter Hexbear party line on it accordingly.

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[–] trinicorn@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Bring back some form of c/user-union.

Yeah, could definitely be done. Although I don't remember it seeming particularly effective, so its rules/procedures would need some rework. It was mostly a venue for grandstanding back when it did exist.

Have some process for "declassifying" mod communications after a while.

This is impossible to enforce and wouldn't assuage people's concerns, IMO. If mods wanted to have secret conversations they would just DM or talk offsite and there'd be no way to prove they didn't. I get the impulse, but I think it would convince few people at best and just add more fuel at worst.

I agree that there's no longer much disagreement remaining about the flag emoji, but there was still a lot of pent up tension and anger at the mods that I find to be majorly overblown and more of an angry vibe than specific ongoing accountability issues with the mods. If it was really just about the old stuff, then why is 90% of the discussion people yelling free zposter or whatever

general problems with the mod clique

people just assume it's a clique that's against them whenever anything rubs them the wrong way from anonymous accounts like the admin alts, IMO. its ridiculously easy to become a mod (basically just have to have a posting history and offer to do moderation work for an under-served comm) but it's pretty thankless so why would you. Getting tarred by a broad brush on like a monthly basis is some reward.

I'm sure the mods talk to eachother, or at least I hope they do, but that doesn't make them a clique nor mean that they are doing nefarious things behind the scenes.

Remember the "he/hims" struggle session(s)?

I try not to if I'm being honest. That one actually just hurt my brain and thats all I remember

Honestly I don't know what the mods could do to calm everyone down if people are still this raw and reactive like 9 months later. besides unmodding nakoichi and digging into maybe one or two hyper-specific incidents