Hello users of hexbear:

Due to recent meta posts in our mutual aid community we wanted to open up discussion about the community [email protected]

We will never require explanation or justification from a user asking for aid in the community, and the mod and admin team continue to commit to not featuring an individual’s mutual aid request to prevent unfair exposure.

In addition, we will maintain a strict “No critical comments or meta comments” on a mutual aid post.

This post is to discuss the mutual aid community’s rule of allowing meta posts: mutual aid as a community, those making posts in it and those commenting on posts.

We are considering removing the exception allowing meta posts but wanted to involve the userbase before committing to a change.

Please comment with any thoughts, feelings, or suggestions regarding this change.

Thank you

  • ratboy [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    7·
    8 hours ago
    • do you think there should be a weekly limit on amount requested?

    No

    • do you think there should be a weekly limit on amount of posts?

    Yes, I think once a day or every other day is fine, multiple times a day is too much and I feel like it drowns out other requestors

    • do you think we change the name from mutual_aid to emergency aid?

    Yes, words mean things.

    • do you think we should allow meta posts?

    No, if this means posts within the comm about issues like this. It seems to just cause a lot of tension and regardless of how I might feel about what goes on in this particular comm, the passive aggressiveness that has been prevalent on this site more recently feels terrible. I can’t imagine how it must feel for the people who are being called out, either.

    IF meta posts were to stay I think they shouod be strictly moderated and there would need to be ground rules for participation. The personal attacks are outta control