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Having two coms for one thing is kinda silly. I really don't get why it was done
The original idea is that looking at posts of something that a random internet user with no platform and no power said as if it mattered is akin to digital self harm. Initially it was implemented as a blanket ban with no comm where it was allowed, but this comm was added as a substitute. Obviously a lot of people disapproved of it because it felt like admins were stepping in to take away content that users wanted to have, or were unnecessarily making a distinction where none was necessary. Hence the current situation where few users find that rule to be any good at all.
honestly I think the slop takes of important public figures can be just as much self-harm. Have you seen the kind of things Elon Musk posts?
If important people ever say anything worth hearing about, it'll end up in c/news.
Personally, there are absolutely times where consuming any type of slop is bad for me, but I generally find the people who have a bigger audience to be more harmful than the ones who don’t - it’s easier for me to dismiss a shitty take from a nobody than someone with a large following. Overall, that tends to mean that stepping away from all types is the best route for me if I need a break, but that basically means I need to entirely tune out all current events.
Part of where the lines sometimes get too blurry for me is that an r/conservative post with 1.7k upvotes might be posted by a nobody, but it absolutely has reach, while I had no clue who Heather Morgan was until recently, and yet the distinction between the comms wouldn’t help me to filter down to either set of bad takes, even if rule 8 were enforced here.
There may have been some people who felt that way, yeah. But they were either a minority or far less vocal than those who felt the mods were making a change for no reason.
Mostly some people only wanted to see big celebrity sort of goss while others wanted to still post random Reddit nerds or no name Twitter weirdos. So there's a comm for each
The old containment comm for posting weird and horrible takes to mock or brigade instituted a rule requiring things posted there to not just be random bad takes from random nobodies with no engagement or support (and this threshold, although never specifically defined, seemed to be around the level of "a reddit comment/post that had at least around a hundred votes on it").
A second comm was made for the real dregs people dredged up somewhere, the random twitter posts with no engagement, reddit comments with single digit scores and no replies, etc.
Both of those got shut down and replaced with renamed equivalents (c/gossip for the high profile stuff, c/slop for the rest) in a struggle session that saw a notorious power poster most known for finding and posting the absolute worst dregs (and for killing Henry Kissinger) delete his account and leave the site.