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.

  • mar_k [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    5 days ago

    comments/posts made by a private person that have low amount of upvotes/likes/views … any super low-hanging fruit doesn’t belong on this site, period

    isn’t this like 50% of the site taglines?

    i mean i get banning unoriginal stupid shit or reddit argument chains. but a ton of comments from nobodies are genuinely very funny and start a lot of memes, so this doesn’t really make sense.

  • booty [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 months ago

    So there’s a type of post that people enjoy posting and engaging with, and a dedicated place to post that type of post. Then you make a rule that that type of post is no longer allowed in that dedicated place, so people naturally post it outside the dedicated place. surprised-pika

    Just revert this shitty rule change and the “problem” will be solved

    • FunkyStuff [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Yeah, but it should cool off after a while. I’m sure that now both comms are going after the low hanging fruit posts the posts will just wean off.

        • FunkyStuff [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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          2 months ago

          shrug-outta-hecks They belong better in some of the Lemmygrad lib showcase comms. I’ve seen too many posts on here and /r/trueanon that are just random nobodies saying deranged things 4 years ago. I don’t mind it too much and it’s ultimately not dissimilar from the approved posts, but it’s extremely reddit energy to be dunking on low hanging fruit from trolls.

              • booty [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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                2 months ago

                Why do we have to “defeat” bad posts at all? Hexbear is a site where a significant portion of the posts are bad on purpose. We have an entire comm dedicated to posting the worst posts we can come up with. Title: I farded, body: hehe is a completely valid Hexbear post. In fact, it’s probably been posted multiple times already.

                We should be “defeating” posts that are racist, ableist, transphobic, liberal, etc. We shouldn’t be “defeating” posts that are bad, that’s what this site is for