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I used to have an account. I was an old /r/chapotraphouse user before it got shut down.
A dipshit admin got mad when I referenced ridiculous drama that reflected badly on how the site was (and probably still is) being run, insisted to me that it didn't happen, banned me before I could even post a link or screenshot demonstrating it happened, purged my entire comment and submission history (mostly news and longer pieces I found interesting, nothing even remotely rule breaking or controversial) then proceeded to monitor the creation of new accounts to ban any usernames similar to mine as soon as they appeared.
All of the exact behaviour that would have been endlessly made fun of for being so extremely online and extremely pathetic on the old subreddit.
That admin/mod who did that is now also banned and their posts also purged lmfao. Hexbear in a nutshell.
You have 4 removed comments before the ban, the rest of your history is still very visible in your profile, so they didn't purge your account, they removed a few comments, which is why it says, "removed by mod". It's funny reading your removed comments. The downvote removal is looked back on as a pretty good change. I've not used the site when it had downvotes, but frankly, I like that they're gone. I don't even know what the "main" issue is, and I've never heard anyone talk about it. The site has never struck me as a "Chapo" site, even though I know that is its origins. I've listened to the Chapo pod before, not for me, honestly. Frankly, seems that separating from the Chapo brand was the right choice.
Anyway, 4 years is a long time to hold a grudge.
Yes, it's been few years and I hadn't checked. I thought it had been purged entirely.
The main issue at the time was the general way admins/mods approached every issue, often in the most aggressive and hostile way imaginable and causing lots of unnecessary drama. Downvote removal and the name change of the site were part of a larger, fantastically absurd saga in which nothing was being handled well. With downvotes for example, where it was announced that any opposition to them being removed was innately transphobic, then trans users criticising this approach, only for said trans users to be banned for pushing back.
Not really "Holding a grudge" when I mention something directly relevant to the thread that asked about Hexbear accounts. It was just a bunch of absurd bullshit that's part of the very dumb lore of hexbear.