On Nov. 9th orlando@hexbear.net posted to hexbear’s Badposting community with a link directing users to this community.

At 16:20:13.37 several users began voting manipulation by way of using hexbear’s Upbear function alongside the post’s thumbail. This increased the apparent reception of the post by valid users and persons such as anti-authoritarians such as myself

Edit 1: user g_mer@hexbear.net began targeted harassment campaign at 16:31:61 as a self professed Russian bot. They have used the repeated phrase “you are WAY OUT OF LINE. WAY out of line. Your response was not IN ANY WAY appropriate” 69 (sixty nine) times. Are they struggling with how to program this?

Edit 2: several Hexbear users have begun participation in a targeted brigade and harassment program. one of them engaged in denial and minimization of the 1854 genocide of the Light Brigade. I have begun collecting evidence of their voting activity.

Edit 3: I now find evidence that at least (1) one of the users is an alt account based on the inclusion of Beanis in the user-name and profile picture. Several users profiles include the “beanis salute” emoji even though there is no support for such an emoji on Hexbear unless they were disingenousing to each other during my investigation. It appears logical that several users share the same identity

Edit 4: At 17:76:04 One if the my bans was evaded by an alt account of calmblue75@lemmy.ml I am beginning to consider defederation from the “tankie triad” instances as they’ve been long called to protect this community

Edit 5: HExbear admins @ChatPPB@hexbear.net and comrade_pibb@hexbear.net removed the brigade post and defederated Hexbear citing violations of rule 96 (“It’s so I don’t know which. I will happily get them and build their more land.”) though one of them left a purile message as they did this.

Edit 6: locking post to prevent bot spam

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alright i’m out