The original essay can be found here.

  • poster596 [kit/kit's]@hexbear.net
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    I wanted to make some minor edit months ago and got a page telling me to write half a bachelors degree thesis worth in Marxist questions. Noped out pretty quick, since I only wanted to edit like 2 lines. It feels much more involved than Hexbears “Are you a chud on any of these 4 topics?” that it feels okay to give oneliner responses to.

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      I’m sorry but that is ludicrous shit, 13-16 questions (actually 17-25, as many of these questions are two questions) “as detailed as possible” and “as lengthy as you need” and then the editors take a vote on you? I sadly shall never be a PW editor.

    • Nopeace [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      I think, on top of what others have commented, they also had to defend themselves from a bunch of ACP infiltrators at one point as well. So there’s also need to screen out bad faith actors who are more familiar with leftist language.

      • agentant [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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        I do get that, but the wiki has run into a problem of having pages that haven’t been updated in years. Maybe if the application was loosened up a bit and you would just need to get your edits screened before posting for awhile after you join could make it a bit more active.