Hey all, hope this post finds you well. I know the last few days have been upsetting and confusing, but I want your feedback on something that's been discussed by quite a number of users: removing the community c/fakenews. Given the poor communication that's been such a problem lately, I'm calling a vote.

Let's just make this super simple:

Please vote by way of upbearing the emojis pinned below.

monkey-typewriter Keep c/fakenews

frog-no-pretext Remove c/fakenews

Votes will be counted 48 hours after this post was made.

Edit: Sorry, I jumped the gun on this one, gang. Gonna give the previous struggle session more breathing room before we litigate anything else, okay?

We'll be back later this week to discuss further.

  • footfaults [none/use name]
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    2 days ago

    Can people just take a fucking week off and STOP MESSING WITH THE SITE PLEASE

    Like why do we need to have this vote right at this moment? Can we push this off for a bit?

    What the fuck.

    I have badposting and fakenews blocked but like can we just not do this right now. I don't want to have another big fight.

  • makotech222 [he/him]
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    2 days ago

    monkey-typewriter

    fakenews is one of the only comms i have blocked lol. but since i have it blocked, i don't mind others who do enjoy it.

  • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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    2 days ago

    c/fakenews should announce its removal and be removed based on whether people think they’re serious or not

  • gaystyleJoker [she/her]
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    2 days ago

    frankly i understand banning beluga if they were the one creating the alts, which i have a hard time believing, but i really dislike the concept of going for a layup like deleting fakenews to regain some kind of credibility with the userbase. it's lateral to the point, does nothing to solve the actual issues being discussed, and shutters a comm that was harmless fun for a majority of the people contributing content to it. i spent probably 2 or 3 hours total writing content, creating actual satire, and to see it unceremoniously swept away as a peacekeeping move honestly makes me upset and think that everyone on a higher level has absolutely no idea what they can actually do to fix the situation

  • Moonworm [any]
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    2 days ago

    I thought y'all were gonna take it easy?

  • ItalianMessiah [he/him]
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    2 days ago

    frog-no-pretext

    I feel the best case for a c/fakenews post is a mildly humorous gotcha. The worst case is causing an anxiety episode for a comrade. The median is just an unfunny post clogging up the timeline. The good posts that comes from c/fakenews can still stick around, just post in c/chapotraphouse and link to a rickroll or something.

    • Tomboymoder [she/her, pup/pup's]
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      2 days ago

      I don’t see how this fixes the issue you have stated.
      Wouldn’t it cause more anxiety to have the post in a more “legit” comm with posts that are actually “real”?

  • Tomboymoder [she/her, pup/pup's]
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    2 days ago

    What’s the rationale for removing it?
    That people see it and can think it’s real news?? It has fakenews next to all the posts

    • Rom [he/him]
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      2 days ago

      idk about you but I usually read the title of the post before the comm