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 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

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.

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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

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I literally just made a joke, but go off I guess.

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14 points

Your application of your political ideology to how you think the site should be run is incoherent enough that being facetious in that fashion doesn’t work.

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13 points

Maybe if you could articulate an actual reason that you’ve chosen one particular genre of hexbear post to bully people with your mod powers over, I would be more open to laughing at your jokes. As it stands, your communications here just sound lifeless and corporate and make it difficult to entertain any humor involved.

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“The mods are bullying people.” Hexbear gets so dramatic when faced with the prospect of doing something else with its time rather than scraping through and being dragged down by the absolute dregs of humanity.

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some of us have been against c/badposting for the entirety of its existence

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8 points

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

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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.

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