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WTF is happening on Hexbear?

Hexbear's new head of operations just dropped, and their way of dealing with the fallout of their last struggle session is to hand bans out like candy to their concerned and disillusioned users while throwing out "epic" quips like insecure teenagers along the way coupled with their communication (and seemingly contempt) towards their own userbase which isn't helping their allegations at all and the revelations that were learned about Hexbear's moderators and admins from their most recent struggle session.

The last few days have honestly shaken my faith in Hexbear and their team and I hope the mods and admins at Lemmygrad are monitoring the situation closely.

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  • I don't get much of it either. My guess is there is a lot of talk going on behind the scenes.

    I don't think a purge right now is necessary especially given that the user count is pretty stagnant.

    It was all working fine. Splitting dunk tank into dredge tank was a good idea but idk why they removed and renamed it all together.

    • They said it was because “dunk tank” has racist origins, which it does, but idk I felt it was pretty excessive anyway. Almost nobody alive today even knows that and those that do are aware that it’s a term that hasn’t been used for over a century. It’s not even the same game anymore.

      • Yea no one was thinking about that. Blacklist, whitelist stuff all over again .

        And it's not clear whether it's even about its "racist origins" that's just the reason provided.

      • Yeah I wouldn't have guessed that at all. My only familiarity with the idea of a dunk tank is white people doing it to each other voluntarily as some kind of fair/fundraiser thing. I always thought the idea of it seemed kind of sadistic (not that I knew the word sadistic back then). But I'm taking it to imagine hexbear's dunk tank is similar to the shitreactionaryssay that lemmygrad has, where it's posting takes of people who aren't even present, and in that sort of context, it seems more like throwing fruit at a picture of someone than anything akin to putting down someone who is trapped there and has to take it. There's also "dunking on" in the basketball meaning, which is sometimes used to refer to putting someone down on social media, like ratio'ing a person on twitter. That one is more directly humiliating, but doesn't use the term "dunk tank" and so unless the basketball meaning also has racist origins I'm not aware, we're looking at phrasing that can quickly overlap and could be confusing to people to take as inherently bad or racist to use.

        If it was just a name change and it was an easy thing to change the name of without messing up links and existing activity and so on, I'd say, whatever, make it a name they don't feel icky about. But the internet often doesn't function that way. Screwing over logistics of user activity for the sake of feeling better about a name most people won't even know the real origins of seems like an odd decision, to say the least.

      • Does that make the dunk tank racist though? I mean, it could be interpreted in a revolutionary way: what once was a tool for humiliating black people is now being utilized against rightful targets, who are largely the people who would've been throwing the balls in the past. A device created for oppression repurposed into an instrument of justice for the oppressed.

        idk I'm not black so take that with a grain of salt. A simple name change would've been fine though.

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