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

  • TheSpectreOfGay [hy/hym, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    7 hours ago

    putting a hard limit on the amount seems like a bad idea. even if some people needing more money leads to other people not getting money (which i don’t believe is the case, i believe most donaters will try to donate to a variety of people), some people are just gonna need more money than other people, some people are in more desperate situations that require constant support and some people just need one-off support.

    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?

    no

    do you think mods should keep track of amounts received via user reports after donating?

    no, because you have no way of actually confirming that they did donate

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

    yea

    do you think we should allow meta posts?

    idc