It's funny how easy it is to sus out a new account being deliberately reactionary.
I've made several alts over the years and it's wild to see how badly wreckers fumble on sounding like a leftist.
I used to think I needed to build more credibility before making a post, but it's not the case at all. If you're cool and stay consistent in your values, people here are so willing to give the benefit of the doubt.
Thanks for being a cool community who bans transphobes, debate lords, and chuds.
the fun ones are accounts that have writing styles and other quirks that are so specific you immediately know it's a banned user's new account. there's one user that is so distinct I know one of their accounts on multiple platforms without actually trying to keep track of them lol
I've noticed one unmistakable posting style of someone who got banned in the past year but I'm not saying any details because I am thoroughly entertained.
he just was the cause of a struggle session about khrushev of all people on grad like a week ago lol (which got his grad account banned from hexbear). grad admins are too lenient like hexbear admins too sometimes lol, they already permabanned him then lowered it to a temp ban but even after he kept shittalking grad for months after (until he started getting into spats with the hexbear admins, anyways, curiously changed his tone real quick when he realized he might get banned from hexbear soon ), it still doesn't really seem like he is on a short leash despite that history on grad already and then being permabanned on both pluto and makan on hexbear
what really made me more mad than anything was what I was alluding to, he shit on lemmygrad for forever (and was outright lying about one of our admins being a patsoc) just because he was mad they tempbanned him, and then came back with an apology post. I thought it was sincere, until I go and look at the modlog a day later and see that he had been unmodded from the comms he was mod in on hexbear and even banned from c/news. made it feel really feel insincere especially since all his other behavior (rabid defense of cpusa, spamming of posts, etc) was pretty much unchanged
i'm forever proud for starting this guy on his downward spiral. while it was @Edelgard@hexbear.net who posted the thread it was me who shared it with her in the mega lmao
i assume this was awhile ago? from what I remember it was pretty easy to make accounts on hexbear before they added the application, just had to give a username and password and maybe pass a captcha? at least that's how I remember it when I made my old hexbear account a ~year ago before the reddit exodus and federation came
yeah admins added it after enabling federation, funnily enough it was supposed to be temporary at the time but ig they decided to keep it. this is what the application is btw it's nothing too hard:
How did you find out about Hexbear, and why do you want to join?
Why did you choose your username?
What are your views on GSM / LGBTQ rights, racial justice, animal liberation, and similar movements?
for comparison here is grad's appliation:
Why would you like to join?
What left tendency would you call yourself?
Please open this chapter on the Marxist Internet Archive, and paste the first sentence from the second paragraph (right after the quote) as a verification measure.
What is your understanding of gender? Should Marxists support the LGBTQ+ community?
What communities would you most like to participate in?
How or why did you choose your username?
I tried to join so many leftist discords a few years ago and they all had questionnaires which were multipage when I finished and the only response I ever got back was one "what?" I have no idea if I put too much work into answering the questions technically because they were technical questions, or if my opinions are just weird AF because I actually read the theory and drew my own conclusions and that's a great way to become quite eccentric and, let's say interestingly, wrong.
I've never filled out hexbear's application but I think it's pretty hard to fail grad's too, I got in first try pretty quickly with both my grad accounts and I remember an incident where a 14 year old anticommunist managed to accidentally get an account on grad lol
The numerous "porn star name and politician name lol" melange chud was one of them. I didn't find them particularly fun though, especially when the "Ron Jeremy" version bullied numerous comrades off this site all in the name of "loving us all" and demanding "normalcy" during a pandemic during New Years, such as "kissing a stranger." Mysterious hangers-on accounts showed up to continue the bullying of "shut-ins" for days afterward.
I hate that piece of shit more than any other former long-term account that eventually got banned.