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I was around for the original r/ChapoTrapHouse from which Hexbear eventually spawned. I posted regularly and spent a lot of time there. After they got banned from reddit, they were on discord for a while, where I became a regular poster in the trans channels, and there's some old bitterness between the entire trans community of that era and Hexbear, with 90% of us (the trans community) being banned for complaining about a moderator who was grooming in the subcommunity. On top of that, this moderator was put in place to moderate this community under the widespread assumption that he was trans, when he was actually cis. That mod was left in place (he was popular mod outside of the trans community) and I don't know if he's still there, but almost all of the trans community that wasn't banned left to join a splinter server. It was clear the moderation didn't give a shit about us (other than planting a spy in the our server and giving sudden bans to people who supported new administation in an upcoming leadership vote).
It's an ancient beef by now, but I deeply distrust them. If they want to come by with genuine apologies, sure, I'm in favor. ~~But I'm not holding my breath. It's no for me~~ (See below). And I hate to say it because I loved the shitposting and the good times we had
First off, I would like to apologize to you and the group of folks harmed, I am 90% sure the person you are referring to is no longer associated with the mod team. The current mod team of hexbear is majority trans and if you feel comfortable I would appreciate the chance to hear your grievances and any suggestions for the community going forward. I realize I cannot undo any of the previous damage but would like to move forward if there is any way to do so, otherwise thank you for speaking up and I wish you the best. (if you don't want me doing this publically, I can delete this)
Nah, publicly is fine. I posted publicly, after all. Hearing that guy is gone is encouraging, and that most of the mod team is trans is as well. You actually can undo some of the damage directed at me personally by checking your discord logs and reviewing my ban. Violated rules once, punished twice for it, many months apart. FWIW, the other lemmy members who are hexbear refugees that I've spoken to barely remember the details, so maybe it's all water under the bridge. I'll clear my no vote, because it sounds like leadership has changed hands and being cordial and soliciting criticism is the most I've gotten from any mod there in the past
Hexbear has split from the discord almost a year ago but i asked someone involved with the discord to look into it and they said you aren't banned. I don't want to publically state your discord name but if you wanna DM me it to be sure i can verify it was what my friend was searching for.
Just to be clear the one administrated by chloe and tanner right? The initial lifeboat discord?
Just to say I'm one of the others who was around for that 'lifeboat' server and left at the same time. I don't recall if they banned me, or if I just left in disgust at how they were treating us, along with you know... having a gods damned groomer for a mod and trying to spin it as us being anti-furry bigots.
In any case, assuming those people are in fact gone then I'm whatever. Trying not to care about online drama so much now.
I was never really involved with the discord server, don't care for the platform, but the people running it have been for the most part troublesome and problematic. I can assure you the current hexbear admin team has been either banned from that discord server or left for similar reasons as you.
Wow holy shit hadn’t heard about this in particular, sorry you had to deal with that comrade. Explains why there was so much struggle about trans people early on in hexbear, especially when it was named chapo.chat from what I can tell (wasn’t there for any of this, but I’ve seen several posts about it pop up when I’ve searched for other things)
for what it’s worth the strict moderation, pronoun tag and lack of downvotes seems to have mostly fixed it, although I’m not trans so I can’t say for certain
Yeah, this was the chapo.chat -> earliest HexBear days