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El Chisme

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Place for posting about the dumb shit public figures say.

Rules:

Rule 1: The subject of a post must be a public person.

Rule 2: All posts must include links to the subject matter, and no identifying information should be redacted.

Rule 3: If your source is a reactionary website, please use archive.is instead of linking directly.

Rule 4: No sectarianism.

Rule 5: TERF/SWERFs Not Welcome

Rule 6: No ableism of any kind (that includes stuff like libt*rd)

Rule 7: Do not post fellow hexbears.

Rule 8: Do not individually target other instances' admins or moderators.

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Per the discussion in these two posts:

https://hexbear.net/post/6569239

https://hexbear.net/comment/6630485

As mod on that (gossip) comm I agree. To be honest, I also think it's unnecessary to have two separate dunking comms based on whether someone is a public figure or a random person. A lot of times that distinction can be quite blurry, and I don't blame people for choosing to post in Slop instead, as that is the more active comm.

Reunite El Chisme and Slop to a single comm, and remove slop's rule #8. "Do not post public figures, these should be posted to c/gossip"

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[–] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 16 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I suggest we merge them into a community referencing a container that you would throw or perhaps... dunk trash into, maybe some kind of tank.

[–] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I still contend that changing the name to the dunk court would've fixed the problem with a single word and actually represent what dunking on our ideological enemies really meant to everyone using the term

[–] Esoteir@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months ago

this 100% but i suppose we're slop pigs now lenin-pensive

i had to smh at the last dunkmetapost when we had an admin say that "dunk" terminology is racist, like way to misunderstand the entire reason for changing the name from dunk_tank. like nobody and i mean literally not a single soul on the entire planet or any other place in the galaxy is referring to dunk tanks when they say "dunk on 'em"

niko-dunk

[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The trash can

The dumpster

[–] Aradino@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

The origins of the term dunk tank are really fucked up. They might seem innocent today, but they were part of the oppression of poc

[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Dunk tank has racist origins and it was worthwhile to separate ourselves from that term

[–] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

Fair, I was just trying to do an admittedly bad bit about coming full circle to having a single comm for all the slop posts.