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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    8 months ago

    As I said, it's not about the morals of the behavior, just the behavior itself and the fact that moderation will inevitably tone it down. And I don't think bans make sense for rule 8, but do you think people who post random twitter screenshots to the dunk tank are gonna keep going after their 36th consecutive post gets removed?

        • buckykat [none/use name]
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          8 months ago

          You seriously want to ban people for posting dunks you don't like? This whole campaign against "low hanging fruit" is silly.

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

            I don't want to have to ban anyone for anything, no mod here does. If someone is just going to keep spamming the whole site with content that keeps getting removed, then yeah. They'll likely catch a ban for spam.

            • buckykat [none/use name]
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              8 months ago

              dunks on posts that don't have the right (arbitrarily and secretly defined) numbers under them are not garbage

                • buckykat [none/use name]
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                  8 months ago

                  So the dunk tank should be empty and all posts that once went there should go in !shitreactionariessay@lemmygrad.ml instead? Because you, the mods, have consistently refused to actually define what "low-hanging fruit" even means. When I raised this point a month ago in the rule 8 announcement thread on TDT, mod replaceable told me he would do "a vibes based analysis on every post" which is clearly a joke, but also clearly not actually an answer.

                • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]
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                  8 months ago

                  It's interesting how your account has made a grand total of 11 posts and comments in a year, and now you're here doing whatever the fuck this is

                  Seems very organic

                  • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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                    8 months ago

                    So now you're implying there's some kind of conspiracy against you? A cabal of people trying to "control the narrative?" The fact that a lurker is disgusted enough by your behaviour to comment on it should be a wake up call, but apparently you'd rather just double down.

                  • sweet_pecan [love/loves, they/them]M
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                    8 months ago

                    lmao touch-grass simply dont be antisemitic, if you dont want to be told to not be antisemitic. no Idea why this is so hard for people.