SRS was fantastic and I miss its active period often. Reddit lost its shit about us every single day and it was probably the most enjoyment I ever got out of that site.
I agree. That's what post hog is supposed to be, right? Using the Chud sexism against them. Considering all the times I was told "Tits or GTFO" it feels good to dish it back.
Reddit lost its shit about us every single day and it was probably the most enjoyment I ever got out of that site.
Frankly, this is the real reason we enjoy the "post hog" meme. It's just our version of triggering the libs -- directing spite at people you despise is enjoyable. This is the honest motivation, and stuff about highlighting the creepiness of sexist behavior is the cover we give ourselves. Obviously the target isn't going to get that from "post hog," and anyone reading along probably isn't, either.
More broadly, we need to reconsider whether being assholes to people online is the best way to get wherever we're trying to go.
Where are we "trying to go" ? If you're referring to site growth I have a very hard time thinking post hog has anything to do with site growth when worse exists elsewhere. Site growth is a content and advertising problem rather than a comments section problem.
That's a good question. Bullying trolls and chuds is a good way to get them to leave, but that's kind of it. Being an asshole online (in many forms, not just telling people to post hog on here) has some big limitations if the goal is anything else.
I think one of the more important jobs it does is dismantle the image of the left as weak, an image that has been very successfully forced on the left due to the way liberal moralisers have always behaved. We must be careful not to become moralisers, and utilise available strategies as and when they are appropriate tools to do so.
Our community image online should be one that creates curiosity in people when they hear about us. If the chuds talk about us as absolute psychopaths that make them uncomfortable while the left talks about us as a place that has cool content and cooler people then we would be doing something right. What we need to focus on however is the content, having content here that is consistently the content people want to see elsewhere.
Why? Because content can't be propagandised about. You can't go into discords and reddit communities and tell people that all we do is have struggle sessions and fight over pronouns or vegans or whatever silly shit is flavour of the week in regards to CONTENT. People will see Hexbear content posted elsewhere and say "I want to see more of this" and thus come to the site.
What matters is content, content, content. The community behaviour is actually secondary and simply something internal in my opinion.
Yes I did. Making men uncomfortable is extremely powerful for women's liberation. Own medicine from time to time helps a lot, particularly with the people that completely lack empathy, many people need to physically feel it first in order to then empathise with it correctly.
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I said making men uncomfortable is good actually.
SRS was fantastic and I miss its active period often. Reddit lost its shit about us every single day and it was probably the most enjoyment I ever got out of that site.
I agree. That's what post hog is supposed to be, right? Using the Chud sexism against them. Considering all the times I was told "Tits or GTFO" it feels good to dish it back.
Frankly, this is the real reason we enjoy the "post hog" meme. It's just our version of triggering the libs -- directing spite at people you despise is enjoyable. This is the honest motivation, and stuff about highlighting the creepiness of sexist behavior is the cover we give ourselves. Obviously the target isn't going to get that from "post hog," and anyone reading along probably isn't, either.
More broadly, we need to reconsider whether being assholes to people online is the best way to get wherever we're trying to go.
Where are we "trying to go" ? If you're referring to site growth I have a very hard time thinking post hog has anything to do with site growth when worse exists elsewhere. Site growth is a content and advertising problem rather than a comments section problem.
That's a good question. Bullying trolls and chuds is a good way to get them to leave, but that's kind of it. Being an asshole online (in many forms, not just telling people to post hog on here) has some big limitations if the goal is anything else.
I think one of the more important jobs it does is dismantle the image of the left as weak, an image that has been very successfully forced on the left due to the way liberal moralisers have always behaved. We must be careful not to become moralisers, and utilise available strategies as and when they are appropriate tools to do so.
Our community image online should be one that creates curiosity in people when they hear about us. If the chuds talk about us as absolute psychopaths that make them uncomfortable while the left talks about us as a place that has cool content and cooler people then we would be doing something right. What we need to focus on however is the content, having content here that is consistently the content people want to see elsewhere.
Why? Because content can't be propagandised about. You can't go into discords and reddit communities and tell people that all we do is have struggle sessions and fight over pronouns or vegans or whatever silly shit is flavour of the week in regards to CONTENT. People will see Hexbear content posted elsewhere and say "I want to see more of this" and thus come to the site.
What matters is content, content, content. The community behaviour is actually secondary and simply something internal in my opinion.
It can be both things.
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Yes I did. Making men uncomfortable is extremely powerful for women's liberation. Own medicine from time to time helps a lot, particularly with the people that completely lack empathy, many people need to physically feel it first in order to then empathise with it correctly.
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:cia: :big-cool:
SRS was a very good time