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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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[–] abc@hexbear.net 45 points 1 week ago (2 children)

i swear to god i don't login for a weekend because i have a life outside this stupid ass website and every time i do this i come back to some 500+ comment thread about the dumbest shit i've ever seen in my life.

time and time again it is the usual suspects too oooaaaaaaauhhh

allow the damn emote and unban whoever was banned for it. tell Nakoichi to calm the fuck down and ban all the fucking zionist owls (sorry it has to be this way)

[–] abc@hexbear.net 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

also i like how this discussion post provides very little context as to what is driving the discussion. can't believe i had to scroll until i found a comment linking the recent arguments/bans SMH (this is not a complaint towards our beloved emoji csar but just a complaint in general because i've sat here for 30 minutes trying to figure out what the fuck was going on)

[–] CARCOSA@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Because the original intent was to discuss the Emoji. Not the mod actions

[–] abc@hexbear.net 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

this discussion of the emoji is a result of mod actions though and to act like it was not is annoying but ok. I'm not saying 'oh this post should've had a detailed timeline of the last 72 hours' but I think it is incredibly disingenuous to go 'yeah we're open to discussion about the emote' and avoid providing any detail as to what really prompted the discussion to begin with

[–] CARCOSA@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago

Ysf says it though, that she was blocking it partially due to being busy and since she was the person doing the emojis we didn't go around her. The post body explains her thoughts on it.

The mod actions against Zposter are ultimately for repeating the same behavior that got their previous 10+ accounts banned and wasn't in the purview of the original post

[–] hellinkilla@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

I completely agree. There were 100+ comments when I got to it and none of them had a link or an explanation or anything.

Somebody shared a link when I asked but then it got pushed down as new comments came.

[–] Chana@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you'd stop logging out on weekends none of this would happen

[–] Cat_Daddy@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago

I agree, this is all @abc's fault