I saw you post in that thread and I just want to back you up. I think this is a huge mistake by the mods to correct the problem of like one or two people scamming hexbear. But the comments, a lot of them read like they’re being forced to donate at gunpoint or something and thus they’re cheerleading on a whole slew of draconian countermeasures to appease a a handful of bougie dickheads who’re mad a user spent some money on drugs. It’s literally a case of fixing a problem that wasn’t broken and all of this might have been spurred on by bad actors in the first place trying to wreck the site because so many people use the mutual aid comm.
I don’t really understand what the purpose of that thread is supposed to be. Didn’t this whole song and dance happen early on when we started having donation threads for Palestinians? Like, of course there’s always a chance there’s going to be scammers, but it just seems so fucked up for a leftist platform to punish people who legitimately need the help.
Its started because some people started to complain about scammers in the MA comm so the mod team made the discussion post so people gave their thoughts about the comm
Thankfully it seems like its going to stay mostly the same but its wild how some people wanted the mods to mean test people about if they needed the aid
I started reading a bit more and while its good to see that that was the decision they came to after the input, it still sucks that they ever entertained the demands of those wanting for there to be means tests for our most vulnerable comrades.
I saw you post in that thread and I just want to back you up. I think this is a huge mistake by the mods to correct the problem of like one or two people scamming hexbear. But the comments, a lot of them read like they’re being forced to donate at gunpoint or something and thus they’re cheerleading on a whole slew of draconian countermeasures to appease a a handful of bougie dickheads who’re mad a user spent some money on drugs. It’s literally a case of fixing a problem that wasn’t broken and all of this might have been spurred on by bad actors in the first place trying to wreck the site because so many people use the mutual aid comm.
I don’t really understand what the purpose of that thread is supposed to be. Didn’t this whole song and dance happen early on when we started having donation threads for Palestinians? Like, of course there’s always a chance there’s going to be scammers, but it just seems so fucked up for a leftist platform to punish people who legitimately need the help.
Its started because some people started to complain about scammers in the MA comm so the mod team made the discussion post so people gave their thoughts about the comm
Thankfully it seems like its going to stay mostly the same but its wild how some people wanted the mods to mean test people about if they needed the aid
I started reading a bit more and while its good to see that that was the decision they came to after the input, it still sucks that they ever entertained the demands of those wanting for there to be means tests for our most vulnerable comrades.
Many people here are covertly reactionary. It’s just that, in some cases, the “c” in “covertly” goes silent. This is one of those cases.