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.
To whoever issued the recent couple of post removals for “dodging rule 8” you might want to specify they are dodging c/the_dunk_tank’s rule 8 or that they are going against the intention of the pinned post on this comm, also bump
Got it posting them in badposting from now on
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.
Just revert this shitty rule change and the “problem” will be solved
This is an entirely predictable result of the addition of the bad rule 8 to the_dunk_tank
I called it too and asked for a quarantine zone for those kinda posts but was denied. LET US HAVE OUR SLOP
This conviction the mods seem to have that “[dunking on] super low-hanging fruit doesn’t belong on this site, period” is weird and bad
Also “low hanging fruit” are posts not a lot of people have seen, while I guess the “high effort dunks” are posting whatever garbage Elon and jk have been up to because they have more views. Seems backwards to me :shrug-outta-hecks:
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.
What is wrong with low hanging fruit anyway
It’s not like making fun of reactionary losers is important work or anything
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.
Is the fruit somehow higher if the person has more followers? I honestly don’t understand.
A post is higher effort the more eyeballs the original had?
Surely everyone will stop posting the posts they like to post because the two comms those posts best fit in ban those posts
Yeah? We had people posting casual transphobia and casual racism here in the early days, heavy moderation put an end to that. Obviously bad posts and bigotry aren’t comparable but you get the idea, moderation is like cyberbullying but with institutional power; and if we’ve learned anything from the posting wars it’s that bullying works.
giggling at how mad everyone is getting about this non problem
