Hello users of hexbear after some discussion we mainly wanted to get your thoughts on the two pinned megathreads, one general and one news.
We've noticed that the news mega has basically become the general mega and the general mega has kinda slowed. Some are thinking that it might be time to tell people to stop posting random shit to the news mega because some appreciate the ever so slightly more serious, focused tone of the news mega
As of now there is not much of a standard for comments however we wanted to discuss with you regarding making a change. Where the news megathread is for discussion on current events and their history/implications for future while the general megathread is for commenting on one's life, interests, or for shit-posting.
This would result in the news megathread being more heavily moderated to actively remove comments that are a better fit for the general megathread or off topic.
Please comment with any thoughts, opinions, comments, questions, or concerns.
i have read the news mega almost every day for my stay here and i have personally found it a good bit more difficult to sift through all the comments to find the actual news in the last few months. i thought about bringing this up myself but didn't want to be a buzzkill.
i would appreciate if top level comments in the news mega were relevant to current news - doesn't have to be directly posting news but at least somehow related to current events. i think replies or sub-comments or whatever you call them are fine to be memes or joke responses or whatever and should be exempt - i don't want things to have to be serious in there and at least for me it's much easier to pass over the replies when looking for news than it is to search through the top level comments.