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For posting all the anonymous reactionary bullshit that you can't post anywhere else.

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Hello everyone, Hestia here with a comm specific check-in. (hexbear.net)
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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[–] Trying2KnowMyself@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It seems like some semi-common themes/concerns about having a single comm include:

  • frequency of posting a specific nobody
  • conversations you were (heavily?) involved in (maybe similarly a frequency issue? The worst person someone ran across in a week wouldn’t overrun things in the same way as posting every bad reply you get, especially when someone’s actively seeking to interact with people who have bad takes)
  • frequency of posts by a specific user, regardless of content/subject

It doesn’t seem like these are current issues, so much as issues that have happened in the past. Scrolling through a couple pages of posts, the closest I saw to “check out this gigantic thread with a random nobody” isn’t one I think the poster participated in, though I’m not diving back into that one again.

Would something relatively arbitrary like “don’t overrun the comm” that gives the mods a lever to say “that’s a bit much (from you/of that type of content/of that take), please scale back” give enough room to keep the slop enjoyable? What about a limit specifically on the frequency of posting conversations you participated in to, say, no more than 1/week?

In short, while I didn’t dig deeply enough to know exactly when the poster was a participant vs not, at a glance it seems like making the distinction whether someone was involved in the discussion would mean the past several weeks of posts here all pass that bar.