We’ve seen an uptick in people posting dunks in here that belong in dunk_tank, as well as low-hanging fruit that gets removed from or isn’t allowed in dunk_tank anymore. For context, rule 8 of dunk_tank:
Rule 8: The subject of a post cannot be low hanging fruit, that is comments/posts made by a private person that have low amount of upvotes/likes/views. Comments/Posts made on other instances that are accessible from hexbear are an exception to this.
There’s a reason that dunks are cordoned off to their own comm, some users rightfully don’t want to see reactionary nonsense all the time, even if we’re making fun of the person who said it. /c/cth is a general-purpose comm but it’s NOT for posting some random nobody asshole twitter user’s bad takes, the absolute best course of action to take when you see that stuff out in the wild is to either directly shit on them yourself, or ignore them and don’t give them more attention.
From this point on I’m going to be more stringent about moderating this. I get it, it’s fun to dunk on the libs and the blue checks and the and that’s why we have a whole dedicated comm for that. Any post that’s obviously meant to be “hey look at this piece of shit, let’s laugh at how bad their opinions are, upbears to the left and emojis in chat” belongs in the_dunk_tank. And any super low-hanging fruit doesn’t belong on this site, period (see TDT rule 8 above). We have better things to do with our time than give unearned attention, time and energy to low-follower-count nobodies yelling into the void.
Thanks for your discretion comrades, stay sicko
edit: as others have pointed out, /c/shitreactionariessay@lemmygrad.ml is a good place for any and all dunking content not allowed here. Post that ragebait to our comrades at the 'grad, they’ll make good use of it. Also, per rule 9 of TFT dunking on fediverse users is still explicitly allowed so it’s still open season on those in our own backyard.
The comm for that is now https://hexbear.net/c/shitreactionariessay@lemmygrad.ml
So a popular type of post many hexbear users like is no longer allowed on Hexbear at all? Why?
A coalition of site mods and the admins came to a consensus. It’s no longer considered permitted content on the site.
It’s a done deal, there’s no point in crying over spilled milk.
its power seems inescapable — but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in posting.
You’re writing this in response to a moderately rude answer from a mod. Get a grip, this isn’t a revolution, it’s a rule change on a webforum
So are we no longer allowed to disagree with rule changes now?
Of course you are?
Cool.
A done deal can be undone, especially one which has effects on the site as a whole and was made without input from the site’s community as a whole.
I think all the discussion on this is dumb but also this is pretty silly, a rule change on a web forum is not irreversible
It’s not irreversible. We’re just not going to reverse it. We decided to trim back on one of the most unhealthy things on the site over a month ago and most users seem to be in agreement with the change. We don’t plan on reversing course over a handful of people who are frankly overreacting about the severity of a rule change on a small shitposting forum and calling the messenger a nazi.
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Well, I’ll subscribe to that too, but lemmygrad posters are more serious, less fun and that comm is drastically less active than TDT