After discussing this with the people most often using the mutual aid community and feedback here we will be making a single change.
Meta posts will no longer be permitted in !mutual_aid@hexbear.net critical meta posts must not be about specific users and posted in !feedback@hexbear.net at risk of removal.
We will change the mutual aid sidebar to remove the clause permitting meta posts, we will also ask that users post once a day so that everyone’s post’s can be seen but this is not a hard rule as it is pretty clear that removing posts is a last resort in that community. This joins the other community recommendations that users include currency, how much is needed, updating when a user has received funds, or updating/locking the post when the need has been met.
This will be unfeatured in about 12 hours
~~Hello users of hexbear:
Due to recent meta posts in our mutual aid community we wanted to open up discussion about the community !mutual_aid@hexbear.net
We will never require explanation or justification from a user asking for aid in the community, and the mod and admin team continue to commit to not featuring an individual’s mutual aid request to prevent unfair exposure.
In addition, we will maintain a strict “No critical comments or meta comments” on a mutual aid post.
This post is to discuss the mutual aid community’s rule of allowing meta posts: mutual aid as a community, those making posts in it and those commenting on posts.
We are considering removing the exception allowing meta posts but wanted to involve the userbase before committing to a change.
Please comment with any thoughts, feelings, or suggestions regarding this change.
Thank you~~
There is often an element of learned helplessness at play as well, and I don’t totally disagree that it matters that people are truthful about what the money goes to for trust reasons, but ultimately being poor is just expensive. how are you supposed to cook things like lentils and beans and veggies when you live in a tent or a car and are forced to move around constantly. just keeping food around can attract pests, you don’t have space to store much in the way of cooking equipment let alone fresh produce, you don’t have reliable access to grocery stores, etc. and ultimately why would you bother trying to live a basic lifestyle when the dopamine-hit slop is right there, hot and ready, and the grocery store (especially one with non-moldy produce) is miles away and swarming with security, cops, karens, etc who all don’t want you there.
Every little aspect from buying food, food storage, food preparation, cooking, sanitation all have associated costs, risks, challenges, etc where getting $5 and getting enough calories worth of addictive taco bell food is very simple and has few externalities to deal with.
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