I probably shouldn’t be making this post. I hate getting involved struggle session highschool drama shit and I won’t even point to specific evidence because frankly this shit depresses me. But here goes:
This might be a “wtf are you ranting about, Owl?” moment but there are some serious reactionary vibes in this place sometimes. Maybe it’s a holdover from the dirtbag leftist era, I don’t know, but it’s gross. I see it trying to worm its way in here and it’s a bad sign
If you ever catch yourself using the kind of shitty othering and ableism you’d see on stupidpol or a 2016 cringe compilation, go do some self crit or fuck right off
Pls link the thread I’m curious and bored
As you wish: https://hexbear.net/post/8204512
For the record, I only found out that this thread existed from checking the modlog in response to Dort_Owl’s post here, trying to figure out if there was a recent thread to provoke it. I was surprised to find someone mentioned me, and even somewhat positively!
You were very patient with them
Sometimes I’m glad that i live on the other side of fhe world than most of the hb userbase
I don’t really understand what in this specific case is provoking that response.
I mean more generally, that because I’m in the almost opposite timezone, I miss a lot of the struggle session threads that seem inflammatory or pointless, so the net result is that my experience of HB is probably more positive than that of some users.
I on the other hand have the modlog bookmarked as my homepage so I never miss out.
prime posting hours are overrated
Ah, right, that makes sense.
Same here, I miss so many struggle sessions to the point that when I do see them it’s whiplash
I remember this guy, while I did not think magic could ever be real the fuck is up with these people lining up to insult him???
I mean, I guess I understand why, times are awful and feeling superior does help alleviate stress, but man 60 comments in and no admin or mod stepped up, that is shameful
Mostly I think they aren’t insulting the user for believing in magic but for behaving in an extremely bad faith, one-sided way while freely insulting and disparaging people. We have other users who believe in “magical praxis” sometimes and the reception is usually very different.
I do agree generally that a huge portion of the HB social dynamic is a bunch of miserable people wanting to roleplay as the bullies rather than the bullied and that’s surely still part of it, but there was a little bit of context in this case.