splinter

It is a bit weird, and mostly for imaginary reasons. There's a growing mythology surrounding our little instance.

If you think someone is breaking the rules, then report them. If you don't want your shit to be removed, then stop breaking the rules.

It's really not hard. We will not ban anyone because you don't like them, but I will ban you if you keep this up. You obviously don't care anyway, so go ahead.

Why not!

I removed your last comment because it was an ad hominem attack. I suggest moving on, none of this stuff is on topic and harassing someone across posts is not OK, irrespective of how justified you think you are.

You can debate what they say as much as you like, but don't attack the person.

This is true, but it prevents external downvoting from influencing how posts are displayed locally on the instance (e.g. it prevents mass downvoted posts from being moved down the ranks).

No, it isn't.

Hard to say, we'll have to wait and see who gets it.

I personally think there's no point for them to try and get it back, they'll most likely come back under a different domain.

Apparently some old admin went afk and nobody else had access. So much for being a collective I guess.

Truly salt of the earth

Looks like they forgot to renew it, someone else snapped it up and now it's up for auction. You could own hexbear I guess!

I agree that it's a difficult balancing act. Overall though, the role of a moderator is to facilitate conversation in accordance to the rules, not enforce their own narrative on the community. These steps are not perfect, but they are an attempt to try and get moderators to moderate more and dictate less.