Half of it is that we don't want more LEO attention, actionable threats of violence just aren't really something we can keep online. Hexbear is also supposed to be something of a refuge for Hexbears, where we don't have to deal with the toxicity and reactionaries that pervade real life and the wider internet. We've had a rule against harassment of users that we've enforced for years.

As long as you don't violate the ToS and CoC your stuff won't be removed. I can advocate violence against slave-owners, or say "Death to Amerika" all I want on Hexbear, since they don't violate the normal rules, and those aren't targeted at a user, a specific person, or a specific organization. After all posting about killing slaveowners (as in even specifically Civil War slave-owners, John Brown type posting) is why r/chapo was banned, and had to migrate to Hexbear.

I hope I'm explaining this well. I don't mod in this comm, but I mod a bunch of other places on Hexbear, so I like to think I understand the rules and their reasoning.

[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 1 points 3 days ago

If we're talking about "toxicity" and an "environment" that's non-threatening, it's worth saying that a big part of the grudge involved was because Nako as a mod banned one of the most chronically aggressive and sectarian and bad-faith users on this site.

People are responsible for themselves and Nako should have known way better than to cross what was a well-established line, but it's worth keeping in mind the context that makes this not just a once-off thing.

Also if someone were to mention that they were tracking my movements, and had a personal motive to do me harm instead of a spur-of-the-moment one, I would be a lot more concerned than if someone just said "beat you with (insert rigid object here)". The former fulfills motivation, ability, and prompt; the latter covers just a fleeting motivation.

[–] into_highest_invite@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 3 days ago

yeah that does make sense. i guess i wasn't aware of all the lore behind nakoichi either. maybe the world i imagined when i was 14-18 never existed lmao