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A reminder that not all recent accounts are wreckers. (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Some recent users (like myself, if two months is considered a short amount) in here actually enjoy this place, and it would be counterproductive and wrong to immediately dismiss every relatively controversial take because of the age of their account. Obviously if they come in flinging shit that's something else, but unless that's the case take into account they're just a new user.

I'm not saying this in response to any struggle sesh and more as a thing to take into account from this point onwards as more recently created accs have come in and started stirring shit, and people will (reasonably) lose trust in them.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've been saying it a lot, because this account is also quite new, and I thought it was funny that a new account was saying that new accounts are suspicious and shouldn't be trusted.

I'll cut back from now on, I think the joke has run its course (and I don't think a lot of people checked my account's age first, so they probably didn't even notice that I was making a joke).

Depending on the person, a person who is genuinely new to hexbear probably won't know much about the site culture, and depending on their past history might have some nasty brainworms that need to be dealt with, but yeah, acting with massive suspicion every time someone has a bad take isn't healthy or beneficial to the community. Better to just call them out or explain things to them rather than getting needlessly hostile. It does hurt to be told you're wrong and horrible by a community you've just joined.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago

And there's a flip side to this - a hesitancy to call out the bad takes of veteran users