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.

    • booty [he/him]
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      8 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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        8 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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          8 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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            8 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.

            • booty [he/him]
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              8 months ago

              why are you so angry that I'm trying to get the mods to explain their unilateral decisions? you already have your preferred outcome, let the people who actually want to achieve something with the conversation be. you're literally just here to gloat about how the mods are on your side