I didn't realize gossip got merged and thought it was pop culture.
I thought i was enforcing something, not changing it.
I'm sorry
this post was submitted on 19 Apr 2026
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For posting all the anonymous reactionary bullshit that you can't post anywhere else.
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This really feeds into my theory that despite how much I love it, Hexbear is probably the online community I've ever been in where people get the most fucking pissy about seeing content they don't like. This is like the 6th time in my tenure here I've seen people demand that content be segregated into increasingly niche sub-sub-sub-sub-comms because god fucking forbid you ever see a thread with shit in it you're not interested in.
This attitude exits on 
as well but we take it to an extreme. It's like if there was a reddit sub for posting sailing ships and someone posted a Schooner and a bunch of users who preferred Clippers started demanding the sub be split into r/Schooner and r/Clipper.
Whom among us (
) could ever forget the /c/Trireme vs. /c/Penteconter struggle session of 2024
I really, truly, honestly, thought it was supposed to go in a different comm.
I presume you're also taking about the community at large but i would like to reiterate that fact
My Face when the hexbears dont like the slop i post 
I like your contra slop 
look, I signed up for slop, so if it's KKKontra slop, I gotta see it anyway, no matter what
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Ok schooner
I think it is because Hexbear is used by many of its users as a refuge away from the bullshit on the rest of the internet, so they don't want to see that stuff on hexbear. I'm not sure, I'm not too bothered by any of the slop type comms, and when one is really annoying to me (like fakenews) then I just block it. I would assume anyone who is frustrated by slop content has probably already blocked the comm though, and is more annoyed when non-slop comms have slop in them.
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Slop is meant to be for posts from random internet users or other lemmy instances, not posts from people with actual influence over a significant number of people.
Okay, I agree with banning contrapoinst posts because it's been just too much, but this is absolutely NOT what the whole site agreed to after several struggle sessions over this very issue. Please don't just arbitrarily change the purpose of the entire comm over a couple of annoying posts without talking to the userbase, because that's the exact behavior that has led to a lot of arguments in the past.
That's what it says on the side bar but you're right i didn't intend to change the rules entirely sorry I'll amend
I'm referring to this. Specifically the word anonymous
For posting all the anonymous reactionary bullshit that you can't post anywhere else.
Okay, well, there's a post making fun of JD Vance for lecturing the Pope at the top of the comm, and I'd hope that you wouldn't ban posts like that.
I suppose an argument could be made that it belongs in politics but again i don't feel as strongly about that idk
Look, we had a ton of arguments about this, and I think the consensus reached by the userbase is that we all want one com for making fun of reactionaries generally, and their posts.
Again, not at all arguing against banning contrapoints posts at all. (Unless she does something REALLY funny, but I doubt that she will)
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https://hexbear.net/post/6588911
I'd argue it's not about this place being designed for one specific type of post. The point is not every community should necessarily be filled with hecklers. This place is to heckle. Even if the stuff we're heckling could possibly also be posted somewhere else, it makes sense to have a sanctioned point and laugh zone so there's at least room for more serious discussion (y'know, in theory)
edit: to be clear I'm fine with banning contrapoints posts, or really anyone who happens to be clogging up the feed at any given time. could always temporarily pin a quarantine post or something to contain it
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Someone needs to make a full 30-page ontology of, "to a Hexbear, what is slop?" and put it in the sidebar.
I didn't realize gossip got merged and thought it was pop culture.
I thought i was enforcing something, not changing it.
I'm sorry
lol everything is fine friend
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Slop culture. 
Petition to create a /c/ContraPoints comm, and then a /c/MoreTankieContrapoints comm, and then /c/KKKontraPointSS, and finally /c/ContraPoints3 where posting is forbidden
Moretankiecontrapoints would just be china struggles still
Yes, but with bisexual lighting and wacky costume changes!
Sounds like a discord channel i would lurk in
So this is one of those situations where mod discretion “I know it when I see” is better than a blanket ban. With kkkontrapoints, the fundamental problem isn’t her being a well-known poster/influencer/whatever, it’s that she’s obviously saying shit for the engagement. Slop is entertaining when it’s bad takes in earnest, blatant rage bait isn’t entertaining because you feel like you’re just giving them what they want with a takedown of it.
So if a mod thinks a post is rage bait, they should remove it. No penalty against the poster, though.
TBH I don't think there's any need to justify banning contrapoints posts because they're rage bait, because I don't know if they even are- I can't read her mind. It's just that her posts are just her being an asshole in a very boring and predictable way, and it's not really that fun to make fun of. Trying to ban "rage bait" presumes that the mods have an ability to perfectly discern the motives of whoever gets posted here, and that's not really a good framework.
Idk, sometimes it's not that boring or predictable. I had no idea where her comment about pretending Stalin was Hilary Clinton or whatever was going and thought it was hilarious.
I get your point, there’s always a potential can of worms when something is up to the vibes of the mod star chamber rather than a cut and dry rule. However, this change is just as subjective, it’s mod discretion as to how many followers one needs to be “influential” (especially given how many influencers pay for bot followers).
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The balkanization of Hexbear continues. Soon we will each have our own comm, and only our own comm, with which to post
Real balkanization heads support instancification (everyone has their own instance).
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I'm fine if those posts go to another comm or whatever but something I find kind of annoying about moderation on this site is that decisions affecting everyone are made after 1 or 2 people complain about something. Not every bit of disagreement needs to be turned into months-long debated policy or requires significant action/change.
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mom come quick the subs are playing hot potato with my fave lib shitter again
I'm not so subtly trying to reduce my workload already
Jesus fuck, here we go again 
I didn't realize gossip got merged and thought it was pop culture.
I thought i was enforcing something, not changing it.
I'm sorry
UH OH STINKY 
Oh damn we're about to wipe out another instance.
What
Oh the zip thing
No more contrapoints posts ~~in slop. Use pop culture for well known internet posters.~~
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I welcome the slow destruction of posting random twitter messages and internet arguements. Eventually this website will be 100 all knowing theory posters and news watchers sharing 20 paragraph cited diatribes and Monitoring The Situation (TM) posts.
Plus badposting
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