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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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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[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Merge /c/gossip and /c/slop into /c/slop and remove rule 8. Almost every change to the_dunk_tank/slop thus far has been disastrous:

Adding rule 8 to /c/the_dunk_tank. The old rule 8 was that the person had to be a "public figure," which is so vague (I eventually settled upon "if the person has a Wikipedia article, they count as a public figure.") It's also pointless too. Why does someone having a Wikipedia article or a Twitch channel with an arbitrary amount of subscribers warrant different treatment from someone who doesn't? It just feeds into weird parasocial bullshit. Like, a mayor is more of a public figure than some Twitter account with millions of subscribers by virtue of the mayor being a public servant and the Twitter account being an online rando, but good luck having anyone follow this because "public figure" is a vague term.
Splitting /c/the_dunk_tank into /c/the_dunk_tank and /c/dredge_tank. The (old) rule 8 was terrible, but instead of just rolling back the change, the admins decided to have two comms, one with the rule and one without. And people predictably just posted in the more popular comm because their submitted slop would get more engagement, which contributed more to the mod's workload for no conceivable gain whatsoever to the point where the mods have long since completely given up enforcing the rule that they came up with. I also remember /c/the_dunk_tank, which had the old rule 8, had nothing but Musk tweets for a time since he fits the "public figure" criteria and UlyssesT really loves shitting on Musk.
Picking /c/gossip as its name even with its vaguely misogynistic connotations. I remember so many people complaining about it only for a minority to claim that calling it /c/gossip was "femmes reclaiming a misogynistic slur."

Getting rid of /c/the_dunk_tank because of its racist origins was the right call and /c/slop is a fine name for what /c/slop is. Now, we just need to merge /c/gossip with /c/slop and remove rule 8. People who don't want to see transphobes seething about trans women in sports or Twitter fascists malding over interracial marriages can just block one comm instead of two.