Due to post about feds nocking on their door and asking about Hexbear, which was posted outside of fake news and could be seen as serious.

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  • GinAndJuche
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    11 months ago

    So posting and commenting is bad?

    Serious Question: Are you against online interaction general? with neither posts nor comments where else is a space foe online comms?

    As a bit I get it, but like for real though: is there an alternative being advocated for (bring back usenet?) or is just a negatory being provided as humor?

    • a_blanqui_slate [none/use name, any]
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      11 months ago

      This is some deep lore stuff:

      Originally there was a subreddit, /r/chapotraphouse. On the subreddit, there were a number of what you might call 'power-users', the concept obviously carries over nicely to hexbear. At some point, what later became known as a struggle session about leftist attitudes towards firearms occurred on the subreddit, and two power users were banned for being very hostile in the thread, and a moratorium was placed on firearms discussions. The power users didn't like being sidelined, and so they created /r/chapotraphouse2, which had a rule that all non-gun posts were disallowed.

      Immediately after /r/chapotraphouse2 was created, /r/chapotraphouse3 was created, which had a more stringent rule that all posts were disallowed. It took on a life of it's own, and several people enjoyed the community dedicated to not-posting, and we eventually had several special events where such luminaries as Cher and Barack Obama didn't post on the subreddit.

      So yeah, it's a bit poking fun at leftist splitting, internet drama, and surrealism, but there's a very real subtext to it; posting is not praxis, we're all just goofing off here so don't take it too seriously.

      • GinAndJuche
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        11 months ago

        Thank you. It is so very rare to encounter a real answer to questions with high shitpost potential.

        The gun struggle session predated me ( I encountered the only after fullcommunism was banned) so I did not know the context for the sequels.

        I try not to take it seriously, but I also feel that anthropology would take it seriously. Our humor, our jokes, our winks and nods that an outsider would not understand...these are a part of leftist culture. We should seek to understand stuff like that to some degree at least. A small one though, probably.

        Again, I appreciate the non-joke response.

          • GinAndJuche
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            11 months ago

            would I be opening a can of worms if I asked why the pt boat cuck is being memed?

            • a_blanqui_slate [none/use name, any]
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              11 months ago

              Oh you missed the Kerry-posting Saga?

              Well, some discord power users felt they were not given sufficient deference in initial running chapo.chat when migrations from the lifeboat discord were underway, so they engaged in like an 8 month long spam campaign against this site,where the spam was generally centered around the personage of John Kerry.

              At some point they thought I was in cahoots with the mod team here and brought their spam campaign to chapotraphouse3.com/r/chapotraphouse3 back when it was a standalone website.

              Really everything silly can be traced back to a power user. Heck, we're in something of a landmark thread right now,though a minor one as far as these things go.

              • GinAndJuche
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                11 months ago

                Thank you for the history lesson, I think it would be cool af if a book was made. Hexbear has lessons future orgs could learn from.