Per @CARCOSA@hexbear.net’s suggestion in the thread announcing the closure of the tank comms I am suggesting a replacement comm
The concept of the comm is that it would be exactly the same as the_dunk_tank but without the unfortunate racist connotations of the name. Also, the name actually describes the content that is intended for it. Not sure why we made it any more complicated than that in the first place. Also, you can post things like articles from The Atlantic, which are also notable, and not just stuff about famous people.
Also, we should just go ahead and unlock Dredge_Tank
How are we feeling about c/slophouse
Show_Trial
Name it after a podcast no one here listens to
Peoples_Court
Locking these comms was a mistake, and trying to ban “low effort” posts will kill the site long term. We’re a shitposting social media site descended from a shitposting subreddit. Shitposting is part of our culture–a big part. If you ban low-effort posts, you’re not going to get more effort posts–you’re just going to get fewer posts. A lot of people come here in part because they can post some essay or take by an esteemed Elder Statesman or Media Thinker and say “look at this dumb shit.” Not only is that important to site culture and participation itself, lots of deeper engagement comes along with that activity.
Reopen dredge, and change the name of the other one.
The wording of the announcement has been changed several times. I don’t think it specifically mentions low effort posting now but it wasn’t very clear before it was edited and it isn’t very clear now.
There hasn’t been any real explanation of what the problem was that merited this change. Afaik only one Dunk tank mod commented on the reasoning and their comment was patronizing, unhelpful, and suggested more of a disconnect between the mod team and the users than an actual problem.
If that’s not the reason, then I’m totally puzzled by what the argument even is. I’m all for changing the name, but if we’re not worried about post quality, why exactly are we closing the comms?
So little followup about the reasoning for the removal and so on. Not trying to stir up a shitstorm, but I am personally still a little bit confused about the reasoning and so on. One of the users that were dismissive and hostile about the concerns of closing down the two coms, turned out to be a moderator of the dunk tank. I guess I should have thought to check beforehand, but I’m lazy like that. Anyway his comments in the thread and his attitude about the dunk tank and his vibe towards those that liked it gives me a bit of a better idea of what the whole line of thought was for shutting down the comms
Very cool to have someone mod a community they don’t like, fantastic
I also like that the solution was to shut down the comm entirely rather than seeking new mods that actually like the content of the comm
I really don’t get it
I think it gives a hell a lot of context to the Stack Overflow-esque application of Rule 8, if nothing else
I honestly don’t mind the dunk tank rename, we will rise again.
I will say I think the conceptual idea in separating dunk/dredge makes sense in terms of punching up vs sideways (i.e. posts from David Brooks vs ransoms from the Internet), but I also never minded the conflation so
Hey me neither, there’s many good names
What if we made a rule that says the have to be labelled as either uppercut or haymaker, then we totally ignored that rule and got all our posts removed like I do whenever main is unlocked?>
the people want c/slop
c/the_firing_squad
Good name
We need our fun little space to talk shit about reactionaries and bond over making fun of them. I like the Dunk Court and the Dunk Pit myself; I always thought the way we used dunking here had more to do with basketball so “the dunk tank” never clicked as the carnival game with its racist baggage in my mind. Mods stop being silly
Okay a bit shorter list of names, trying to repost those in this thread and the other that I’ve seen get positive feedback[1] + My own personal favourite
Animal themed
- c/the_hog_pen
- c/the_trough
- c/the_skunk_tank
- c/the_bear_pit
- c/going_to_the_bear_maul
- c/bear_maul
Shit and/or Trash
- c/the_sceptic_tank
- c/dredge_tank
- c/shitposts
- c/the_shit_court
- c/the_toilet
- c/skibidi_toilet
History and culture
- c/the_ones_who_walk_away
- c/pit
- c/Barbara_Pit
- c/Infowars
- c/the_slam_court
- c/the_slam_zone
Polis
- c/point_and_laugh
- c/the_dunk_court
- c/the_think_tank
- c/shit_liberals_say
- c/the_burn_pit
- c/the_burn_ward
Radio DJ
- c/69.5KDRJ_the_dredge
- c/dredge_report
- c/the_bone_zone
- c/heckling
Inside Jokes
- c/citationsneeded
- c/citations_needed
- c/libidinal_pleasure
- c/deeply_unserious
- c/c/main
- c/30_to_50_feral_hogs
personal favourites
- c/hog_out_or_log_out_and_I_am_all_out_of_logs
By Positive feedback I mean either something got a lot of discussion or a good amount of upbears, which is completely arbitrary, but I tried not to be. I’d put points next to the thing, but since no thread is locked, there isn’t really any way to make that definitive ↩︎
c/hog_out_or_log_out_and_i_am_all_out_of_logs pls
Thank you <3
the_hog_roast - where reactionaries go to get cooked
or just any kind of riffing off of roast, since it’s already used to mean the same thing as dunking but without the history
I feel like we’re gonna rename that at some point again. Can’t have hog roast anymore. Because of
wokeveganswe love our vegan comrades!
May as well cancel the revolution then because it’ll hurt a lot of hogs.
Hexbear isn’t the revolution, so I don’t really understand your argument, it’s giving me “iphone yet commie” vibes
Ok I didn’t realise you were actually serious about the vegan thing.
I disagree. And think if that’s the case then calling anyone a hog is problematic in the first place if we wish harm on the hogs.
If we don’t think that’s problematic, then roasting hogs as a metaphor for writing mean comments is fine.
I see what you mean, yeah that makes sense. Thanks for walking me thru it
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throwing in my vote for “c/heckling”
I’m throwing in for /c/slop or /c/the_trough for replacing dredge_tank
putting my 2 cents in for the hog themed ones
