This post is for hexbear users only. You are NOT ALLOWED to see it.

It’s actually incredibly easy to take over communities built on a moderator hierarchy that takes policy positions based on a rough consensus of what the team decides in discussions. All you have to do is some court packing tactics and then you have a squad of people collaboratively steering the group towards your intended outcomes, creating the “consensus” using a small group that are working together is easy. This is enough to get you what you want until the higher up mod eventually goes afk for too long and can be replaced, by sticking around long enough you eventually gain seniority and at that point you can purge everyone that isn’t a communist. Congratulations, you’ve successfully taken over a community.

I’ve personally seen this succeed multiple times. It’s very easy. I’ve also been on the receiving end of liberals doing it twice though so it cuts both ways, this structure of community is just especially vulnerable to it.

The problem with this fantasy is who would be bothered to even try? It would be more likely someone here would try this on hex/lemmygrad to because of aome sort of peraonal bugbear or something. Who cares about lib instances enough to do this? Blahaj might be worth it but then you would be required to spent time on 196. The type of person willing to submit themselves to that for fun has the type of that will make a take over of Blahaj more of a “new management” rather then rescue.