chapotraphouse

I'm starting to see what happened. There's a ringleader with an older account and good rep, and to get the coconspirators onboard, the coconspirators request new comms to be created.

Ehhh maybe. It's very hard to say. I'm not just saying that, it's not particularly easy to confirm one way or another. I'm only raising organisational structure because I see it as the largest weakness that exists, I'm not really convinced it played a role in this particular event.

If I was dead set on making this structure work I think I'd want an internal wiki that all mods can edit, all edits are private, and no additions can be edited out. This internal wiki would function as a mod-thoughts notepad per user. And would be anonymity would prevent internal conflict about notes such as one mod being suspicious about one user for x reasons or another. When a new issue arises then the information exists to be more fully informed about the history a user has. The downside of this is that I don't think volunteers can be trusted to maintain something like that diligently enough, it's more something that employees in a company would stick to. Additionally it's not without its own weaknesses.

What I meant is that there are some mods who have expressed contempt for the majority of Hexbear users. If someone thinks most people on Hexbear suck, then they're saying Hexbear sucks, in which case how can we trust that they won't sabotage something that they think sucks? How is this any different from making some dipshit from beehaw or lemmy.world a mod? They don't have to be a liberal or a fascist in order to sabotage Hexbear from within. Basically, their behavior is the opposite of what a socialist should be, which is a baseline compassion and optimism of the working class being able to transform themselves into something better.

I think I understand what you mean. I've seen this behavioural attitude occur between support agents and customers in tech support roles. A contempt for the customer they're engaging with. In some cases this is actually fairly understandable because some customers are rude and this builds up over time, but this interaction with the rude ones leaks over into contempt for ALL the customers which affects how they interact with the average/good customers rather than just the bad ones. An understandable outcome, but not particularly beneficial for the role. Also just generally a certain tact and tone can be extremely useful, Screamo always impressed me with this.