So the exploding heads vote is well past a day old now. The vote is almost unanimous to defederate. It’s been obvious since a few hours after it went up what the community wants. It’s now taken well past two weeks to defederate from an obvious alt right troll and bot platform. Twelve days of silence from admins, then a day long debate thread, then an interminable vote. I requested word on when the vote could be called closed, but my question was acknowledged and ignored.

For my own self, I have at this point no faith in the administration of this instance anymore to be able to handle this. It’s very clear that wanting to not offend the alt-right is far, far more important than hearing the wishes of the users, and always has been. However, this is the agora, so I’m open to hear a counterpoint explaining why it’s actually very reasonable to spend weeks upon weeks in endless circling debate over whether or not it’s fine to joke about murdering marginalized people.

Edit: since my thread was locked and I can’t reply to accusations, I only joined beehaw because of this, about two days ago. I’m not “a beehaw user”, I’ve barely got my account there active. On this site I have a community and four hundred posts, but I’ll be closing that now.

I opened this thread after seeking comment and being ignored for a week. You can see it in my post history if you like. That’s enough of that for me.

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    Hey man, I think you’re being a bit harsh. Let’s not sharpen our pitchforks just yet. These are volunteers who have likely never had to admin a larger community like this. I can see why you’re frustrated, and agree with you for the most part, but the way you frame this assumes malice where it’s not neccessarally true.

    They have given a timeframe for voting, a week. Though in this instance it’s unlikely needed this is likely the reason action hasn’t been taken on the new vote. The old one? They haven’t taken action on most of that era of voting either. It was too much, so they’ve instituted this.

    I sincerly doubt this is due to ‘not wanting to offend the alt right’.