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Why aren't downvotes possible on hexbear?
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this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2023
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It was before my time, but as far as I've heard the fight was centered around "I love my trans comrades" posts in particular
How long ago was this? Do you know?
pretty far back, maybe 6 months into the site's existence (so about 2.5 years ago). And yeah, it was one poster (brookebaybee or something like that) who would post "I love my trans comrades" every day, and the people who were downvoting those posts got shamed, banned, and then we got rid of downvotes. Definitely one of the most significant events for the site leading to the current culture here.
We had libs before here? Wasn’t this always an anti capitalist hub?
There was a lot of growing pains early in the site's history as it was getting started. One of the big reasons we don't have transphobes now is because they were all viciously banned back in the day.
How do we deal now with reactionary comments? Do we just report them?
You can report them, and you can also hit them with one of these:
It depends on where the comment is though. Your report will be sent to everyone who moderates that community and if the community happens to be on something like wewelsburg.zone you might just be singling yourself out.
What does the pigpoopballs do?
let's them know that their post was so trash that it doesn't merit a reply with any more thought put into it than a pig shitting on its own balls.
Yeah pretty much. I'm honestly not sure ive seen any in a while tbh (except for at the start of federation, I guess)
I know it was before August 2022 since I was here by then, but nothing more specific