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this is prob gonna be my last post on napo but tbh i dont care anymore. this is serious and a lot of people are just not understanding. obviously this is gonna be pretty lengthy, it mostly covers the 8 or so months of history. this blog may get deleted or get my account suspended but this is something i absolutely need to talk about.

anyway

MASSIVE trigger warning for mentions of CP, mentions of gore, mentions of shock images, grooming, pedophilia, sexual harassment, and abuse

discretion advised because this is an incredibly heavy blog for even me to write.

i. the beginning

gore has been a problem on spacehey for years. gore is the reason why layouts has been indefinitely closed. gore is the reason why strawdrugz, alfie, and to4st are despised in the community. 5 then-moderators cannot handle over 2 million users at all times; moderation wasn't even a paid position for any of them. but around september of 2025, it really started to become a problem. this is considered the "nosedive" of spacehey to some.

every couple of weeks, gore would be spammed on blogs under the guise that it was a "test blog" or a "test profile." at one point, "my family is dying in gaza" was being used as a bait and switch to flash images of dead babies, beheadings, "goreporn," and animal abuse. the user to4st in particular would hide report buttons on their profile and post necrophilia and zoophilia. most often a combination of the two. around the same time, one of the more notorious members of the movement for better spacehey moderation rejoined spacehey - david.avi. he's also important in the creation of napoleonite, so sit tight.

david and many others very obviously had a problem with the gore - especially those where you couldn't report from their profile by normal means due to the contact links being hidden or obscured. david would often go out of his way to collect user IDs of goreposters [aka willingly clicking on gore profiles and finding their IDs] and put them into report links so people didn't have to look at the profiles themselves to report. he would spread these links around, which led to others posting them, and then accounts would get taken down faster. 21c lance/21rifles/doc, a recently joined user also witnessed these multiple instances of gore spam, and would help by reporting and spreading links as well. lance also went out of his way to spam the recent blogs, in order to prevent gore blogs from being clicked on or seen. he was repeatedly suspended for harassment towards these goreposters and spamming, but he came back in order to keep "flushing" out the gore.

david and lance were the "kickstarters" of the movement for better spacehey moderation - lance starting a petition and david repeatedly sharing it everywhere. this would later be part of the domino effect leading to napo's creation. this petition and movement mostly focused on preventing gore spam from happening, but as this was a recurring problem.. others were rising.

sexual harassment, grooming, and pedophilia. people being banned for making callout against real, true problem users.

ii. more problems

many users reported instances of sexual harassment and abuse on the website - however, many didn't get a response or the actors were allowed to stay. this would push people to make callouts, which would then enter a virtually neverending cycle of suspension.

people would get harassed or groomed, they would report, nothing would happen, they make a callout, and they get banned. the cycle continued over and over.

this happened with other problems as well; notably, the user greatsage was banned over making a callout towards homophobic users who are STILL not banned to this day. it also took weeks for users like jackie, a profic who wanted people to be okay with problematic and potentially triggering tropes, to get banned. it took a week for z3phyrpup, a radqueer who was sexually attracted to a fictional 7-8 year old boy, to be banned. nekozuna, a known pedophile, was repeatedly reported in the hours that they made their account, but they deleted it before moderators could ban them. they had multiple minors added, one as young as 13.

iii. the collapse

one day the napoleonite moderators all remember very well was the day the hello world account was created and started posting. this was the worst case seen in current spacehey times; the account was created after the most active moderator at the time announced an indefinite hiatus. the account posted child pornography, child snuff, hurtcore, and extremely graphic gore. david and lance were active at this time, being able to spam and "flush out" the extremely triggering materials in order to prevent people from seeing them while also posting report links. this caught the attention of notorious users [and now napo mods] carmilla and goat, who also repeatedly reported and made their friends aware of the account.

hello world was left up for nearly 12 hours before it was deleted. 12 hours of anyone being able to open up one of their blogs and seeing CP, snuff, hurtcore, and dead children. this was traumatic for multiple users, some moderators of napo included.

iv. targeted

the movement for better moderation had grown substantially at this point; "putdavidinthemech" was a known dogwhistle for supporters of this movement and now "goat4admin" was becoming a dogwhistle too. people started to express open resentment and even hate towards moderators. david became more and more vocal in his criticism of the moderation, prompting users carmilla, lance, and goat to criticize the moderation publicly as well. after weeks of criticism, something shocking happened.

david was banned.

despite being the most vocal critic of moderation, most assumed he had a "shield" because of his popularity. he did not. this later led to an outrageous amount of support for him and a higher demand for better moderation. behind the scenes, however, this meant his friends were also being targeted.

in order to keep updating everyone who was worried about him, he trusted his cousin bella to copy and paste messages from him into blogs that she posted. his repeated resistance and stubbornness towards moderation brought more attention - but it didn't last for long. bella was banned minutes after her final post, and carmilla was soon banned afterwards for making a frustrated, PRIVATE joke about the whole situation. 

they'd all given up at this point; they had a discord server where they talked with the now current mod and admin team of napoleonite, and this is where the roots of napo began to form.

v. new beginnings

napoleonite originally was created under the free domain napoleon.ct.ws, as a fork of anyspace. it was seen as a passion project, almost a beacon of hope. it had a limited amount of users able to use it, lots of the features were missing, but it was a starting point.

however, the point of it wasn't just to slap an and spacehey in the face. it was a safe space for users. even if the dev team all didn't exactly like an or spacehey, that wasn't the point. not at all.

sarmonera/ssr was the creator of napoleon - goat, lance, david, carmilla, and jonotheistic were appointed to be moderators first. later on, koltin/h8e and gray, originally of the spacehey moderation team, became moderators as well. abgespeichert became a developer for vital site security features.

the purpose wasn't ever about making a hate chamber for spacehey; it was a spot for people who agreed moderation wasn't working out. the first few blogs were dodgy, cynical jokes about spacehey and their presence on napo, but even then, it wasn't about hate. it wasn't about competition. it wasn't about who could get more users. it wasn't about setting a score.

napoleonite is a passion project.

it was about passion. 

all of the staff love their community, they want to keep it safe, they want to interact with it. they're active every day, making sure everything's okay and that there's no problems going on. they're proud of what they've made. they're proud people love their project as much as they do. they didn't care if people hated it, criticized it, left it.. just that it was the combination of their minds working together to make something great.

vi. the future..?

in my opinion, the future is kind of a foggy road. i believe napoleonite will be a great website, but i can't help but hope spacehey gets better too. this whole "site war" thing is stupid, even to the moderators. you can use whatever site you want. you aren't being forced to migrate. nobody thinks spacehey is actually going to shut down soon. just do what you want.

but i hope this lengthy blog helped. i've been here since the very beginning on many accounts and it's saddening to see that history seems to be a flat circle on here.

- vela