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 frothingfash 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 sicko-jammin

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.

  • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    shrug-outta-hecks They belong better in some of the Lemmygrad lib showcase comms. I've seen too many posts on here and /r/trueanon that are just random nobodies saying deranged things 4 years ago. I don't mind it too much and it's ultimately not dissimilar from the approved posts, but it's extremely reddit energy to be dunking on low hanging fruit from trolls.

    • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      So ignore them and let them settle to the bottom of the pile with all the other poor engagement posts

      • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]M
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        2 months ago

        So, what you're saying is to defeat bad posts in the marketplace of ideas, rather than to use political power to do so?

        • booty [he/him]
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          2 months ago

          Why do we have to "defeat" bad posts at all? Hexbear is a site where a significant portion of the posts are bad on purpose. We have an entire comm dedicated to posting the worst posts we can come up with. Title: I farded, body: hehe is a completely valid Hexbear post. In fact, it's probably been posted multiple times already.

          We should be "defeating" posts that are racist, ableist, transphobic, liberal, etc. We shouldn't be "defeating" posts that are bad, that's what this site is for

            • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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              2 months ago

              Your application of your political ideology to how you think the site should be run is incoherent enough that being facetious in that fashion doesn't work.

            • booty [he/him]
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              2 months ago

              Maybe if you could articulate an actual reason that you've chosen one particular genre of hexbear post to bully people with your mod powers over, I would be more open to laughing at your jokes. As it stands, your communications here just sound lifeless and corporate and make it difficult to entertain any humor involved.

              • OrionsMask [he/him,any]
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                2 months ago

                "The mods are bullying people." Hexbear gets so dramatic when faced with the prospect of doing something else with its time rather than scraping through and being dragged down by the absolute dregs of humanity.

                • booty [he/him]
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                  2 months ago

                  Why do mods want to insert themselves into how I spend my time, and why do you care enough to express your support for that?

                  • OrionsMask [he/him,any]
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                    2 months ago

                    Because I think that dunk posts are actually kind of toxic in general. They're fine in moderation but so often they're "here's this horrible thing that I saw someone online do or say, and I'm going to post it here for everyone else to see, and we're all going to get depressed by it and use some of our finite emotional bandwidth for the day on it, despite the fact that we can't do anything about it."

                    Prime example: Just yesterday I learned on this site that people make (CW: zionazi demon shit)

                    spoiler

                    Palestinian bombing montages to rock music

                    and it actually just straight up made my day worse. I didn't want or need to know that, it doesn't make my life better in any way, and now I have to just live with this disgusting and horrible fact.

                    If this rule prevents shit like that, I think it's a net good for everyone in a multitude of ways.

                    • booty [he/him]
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                      2 months ago

                      If you don't like the kinds of posts that the dunk tank are for then you can and should block that comm, not tell everyone else that no fun is allowed and threaten to ban them

                      • OrionsMask [he/him,any]
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                        2 months ago

                        Like I said, dunking is fine in moderation, but to quote someone else in the thread, I don't need to see every bad take on the internet.

            • booty [he/him]
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              2 months ago

              then block the comm and leave us alone? "i don't like this kind of post so mods need to remove it and ban people for posting it" is baby shit

              • JohnBrownNote [comrade/them, des/pair]
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                2 months ago

                pigpoop

                i already did but surely you understand that my blocking a comm because i think it's a bad idea and bad for the culture doesn't change my opinion on it. and that my ability to block it doesn't have shit to do with my pointing out my position as a contradiction of your argument.

                • booty [he/him]
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                  2 months ago

                  and that my ability to block it doesn't have shit to do with my pointing out my position as a contradiction of your argument.

                  first off, you didn't articulate any such position. you just said that you don't like the badposting comm.

                  second, who cares whether you (or the mods) like a certain comm or a certain type of post? since when does that matter? how many more types of posts are just going to be arbitrarily, randomly, unilaterally banned by the mods for no articulable reason?

                  • JohnBrownNote [comrade/them, des/pair]
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                    2 months ago

                    my "some of us" was plural, and "against" is a fair bit stronger than "don't like"

                    the only baby shit i see here is your crying about the mods' decision.