Why not meet this request halfway and make a bot that detects the words vaush, badempanada, the serfs, breadtube, etc and replies with a polite and sensible invitation to post on the dunk tank in an annoyingly big font. We do this until the dunk tank is popular
can we do that (technically, not ethically or whatever)
Yeah I'm not too familiar with what lemmy supports currently. I figure that's a good stop-gap alternative.
Everyone knows Mittens has the best deals, isn't that right folks? Beautiful deals.... tremendous.
Sounds like a containment board? Please keep an eye on the space if you do that, because containment boards can quickly fuck things up.
Sure.
Standard containment board stuff: Confining Vaush talk to The Dunk Tank will make it a de facto Vaush-dunking board, since complaining about Vaush is far more popular than The Dunk Tank itself right now. Dunking on Vaush seems pretty popular on the internet at large, so that board may drive new people to the site who were looking for a place to dunk on him. "People who came here to dunk on Vaush" may become a noticeable portion of the overall site's community. (The other most likely scenario is that the board is too inactive, and nobody is allowed to dunk on Vaush elsewhere, so Vaush-dunking goes away.)
A possible bad case to watch out for: Vaush is just one vaguely left-aligned loser, so the community will get bored of him. Since it's a community dedicated to dunking on vaguely left-aligned losers, they'll pick more of them to target. As standards lax, this may just become a community for dunking on people who aren't left enough, or just lefties with any excuse, drawing in new users who are interested in that. This sounds potentially pretty toxic, and counter to the lib to chapo pipeline.
None of that's set in stone, which is why I asked to keep an eye on it rather than to just not do it.
(Whoever's about to type slippery slope fallacy: It's not a slippery slope fallacy if you point out the mechanism by which things slip.)
What I was about to type was did you completely forget what the old sub was like. As a group, dunking on vaguely left-aligned losers is kinda in our rear-view mirror already. I don't know much about this Vaush character, but everything I've seen puts him pretty firmly on the "vaguely left" side far more than the "left-aligned" side. Frankly he looks like a willful saboteur to me. Anybody who says Lenin and Mao would have been Bernie staffers can fuck right off.
I remember the sub being more about dunking on chuds and neoliberal ghouls, but that could easily be biased by me ignoring things I find tiresome.
edit: And this new site started with a few days of weird purity testing and people looking for excuses to start infighting, so I'm skittish about anything that might head back in that direction.
A better solution would be to implement user level filtering. If someone doesn't wanna see Vaush posts they can put that in their filter. This solution has the added benefit of being immediately usable if any future situation like this arises. I 100% get that the arguments are annoying for the mods to deal with but we can't just say no Vaush posting. It has to be all or nothing. If he's getting moved then every other dunk should too. There is just too much potential abuse with a rule specifically for 1 person.
Basically if someone doesn't want to see vaush posts they should be able to opt out of that.... I think thats better than having to opt into seeing them... because you may have no idea they are even there.
You could randomly delete 80% of vaush posts or something. Or lock a post at random if more than two about vaush are in the first page of top 24 hours.
I've only seen this sort of policy applied to forums that are trying to allow memes without allowing too many memes, though.
Can we also make sure all the electoralist shit goes to c/electoralism if that's the case, I have no issue posting that dork to The Dunk Tank
Yes, but when we get five posts all doing a 2024 poll that means fucking nothing, it's clutter.
Yeah, I get you, and it's hard to differentiate, but I think main exploding after Kamala was chosen or whatever was a good example too. It's hard to pin down but I trust that we'll figure out a good process.
I have no idea who or what the fuck is going on.
Here’s an upvote to get whatever the fuck this is off main.
President Beatnik, my people yearn for freedom from Vaush posts. Please adopt this suggestion and liberate us from Vaush posting
It's a play on this meme: https://mobile.twitter.com/hermit_hwarang/status/1241804283110199298
https://mobile.twitter.com/carterforva/status/1238515298858385411
Thank fuck, I do not give a shit about this dumbass motherfucker
Y'all want to gloat about how stupid someone is, go ahead, but we have a space for that
Chapo is founded on gloating about how stupid people are. If you guys don't like Vaush threads don't click them. You're not required to read everything. Also the purpose of moving away from Reddit was that we could have less rules and set our own rules. Are we gonna section off people on the left who are immune from criticism? This would be an awful rule to make.
To me it feels like the criticism is being moved somewhere where it won't be seen and I'm flat out not OK with that. Vaush is already "protected" elsewhere on the web.
Nah man, I post about Vaush a lot and even I'm sick of myself, it should be put in a channel that's not main.
As long as we can still post other dunks in main. It's just this Vaush stuff is becoming all consuming as an obsession in left spaces lately and I'm kind of curious why. It isn't good to let your enemies make you this mad and this visibly so. The proper thing to do instead of these endless memes is make a debunking post/list and put it some place prominent.
It isn’t good to let your enemies make you this mad and this visibly so.
He doesn't make me mad, he makes me sad for the leftists whose time he's wasting
Just put it in the dunk tank, we need to get stuff into the communities instead of !main@hexbear.net anyway.
How did you get a photo of my room?
I already said I'm fine with it here. Reiterating community values is good and important. If you banish all things that allow the community to reiterate its values to a specified space then you will ultimately be limiting the people exposed to value reiteration. That will result in community values slipping in the long term.
I warn all of you fucks that if you don’t want Vaush talk on main then get to my dunk tank post making fun of him or else I will start VAUSHPOSTING AGAIN I SWEAR TO GOD
