From now on a new rule is in place
Rule 8: The subject of a post must be highly visible, which means that it is either highly upvoted/liked/viewed, posted by a public figure or widely known of in society.
Reworded rule:
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.
c/the_dunk_tank should be about dunking on capitalist/reactionary ideas floating in society not about finding one idiot to get mad at, so the rule has been introduced to make sure that is the case
It really feels like the mods trying to limit the amount of dunk tank posts.
Like one mod* rly, I've not seen another voice this train of thought
Okay. I'll bite. You've not seen other voices because we are in agreement on the rule change. Moderation decisions like this are discussed elsewhere and then made public once a consensus has been reached.
We're trying to limit "low-hanging fruit" posts like ragebait or random unhinged takes held only by single individuals. Our goal here is basically to prevent the_dunk_tank from being a space for making up guys to get mad at. There simply is no point in tilting at windmills, so to speak.
"Making up guys to get mad at"-- has this ever actually happened, or is this just a paternalistic "what if" that you lot have talked yourselves into? I get there's a decision that's been made here, regardless of how bad the optics look on first glance-- but I do consider it a stupid-assed decision ultimately.
Not from the "tilting at windmills" bit, as I actually do agree with that-- but assuming this userbase is so in need of handholding that the idea that they could conjure up people to dunk on(when the vast majority I've seen actually catch the drag-a-thon deserved so much worse) doesn't pass the smell test to me.
But do y'all ig. Not my call to make-- but y'all have been wrong before.
Apologies, "making up a guy to get mad at" is an expression based on an old dril post. I don't necessarily mean it literally, but there have been a number of posts in the past where users have shared satire accounts and fairly obvious bait. These and posts about truly weird takes that are vanishingly rare to the point of not being a real take that is held by a group of people are what I meant by that.
The rule change is 50/50 a clarification on why some posts have been locked or removed, and a goal to shoot for, in order to reduce the need for removing posts in the future.