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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Hestia@hexbear.net to c/slop@hexbear.net

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I have come to the conclusion that meta-posts suck. They drain everyone of their energy, and they quickly fill up with essay long paragraphs that I have no desire or attention span to wade through and fuck up my mental health.

Rather than focus on site-wide issues, the purpose of this post is to get feedback on this specific comm. What issues do you see here specifically that you would like us to focus more on?

I hope to address problems in a pinpoint manner, and then cross reference those concerns across other comms through similar posts in order to address the bigger picture in the end.

I have no intention of having this post pinned. Too much visibility will drown out everyone's voices in a cacophony of noise. Please keep your comments relatively short and concise, using frequent paragraph breaks for longer comments so that the information can be easily digested. It helps with my ADHD

If this goes smoothly, I plan to work my way through other comms I moderate and address the specific problems there, too.

edit: I was advised to pin it to this comm, it shall remain unpinned to the main page though.

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[–] KobaCumTribute@hexbear.net 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I really don't get why it was done

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.