the_dunk_tank
It's the dunk tank.
This is where you come to post big-brained hot takes by chuds, libs, or even fellow leftists, and tear them to itty-bitty pieces with precision dunkstrikes.
Rule 1: All posts must include links to the subject matter, and no identifying information should be redacted.
Rule 2: If your source is a reactionary website, please use archive.is instead of linking directly.
Rule 3: No sectarianism.
Rule 4: TERF/SWERFs Not Welcome
Rule 5: No ableism of any kind (that includes stuff like libt*rd)
Rule 6: Do not post fellow hexbears.
Rule 7: Do not individually target other instances' admins or moderators.
Rule 8: The subject of a post cannot be low hanging fruit, that is comments/posts made by a private person that have low amount of upvotes/likes/views. Comments/Posts made on other instances that are accessible from hexbear are an exception to this. Posts that do not meet this requirement can be posted to !shitreactionariessay@lemmygrad.ml
Rule 9: if you post ironic rage bait im going to make a personal visit to your house to make sure you never make this mistake again
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I like low level dunks because they are the kind I interact with offline too, and the responses and critiques are applicable to how I interact with those people or in those spaces.
Like if I see a common sinophobic trope being shopped around, then I get a good counter to it in the dunk tank, I can use it when a friend or whoever brings it up irl.
Higher profile people don't necessarily truck in the same rhetoric as people thinking they're posting in semi-anonymous online spaces. If the dunk tank is going to be useful, and serve as a useful venting space/containment zone, then putting some arbitrary cutoff of 'oh a few hundred followers needed before we can drag this shithead' is a counterproductive rule imo
Also I don't care
Edit: i mean, I'm okay with your moderation decision. I understand what you're going for, but I think what I'm trying to say is that personally i don't see low hanging fruit as a problem. To me it's cathartic to be like 'check out this trasheap' and have a few friends also lay in the boot, while I don't post in this comm, I have like, one friend irl who I do share ragebait with when I come across it, it's kinda like oh I haven't messaged person x in a while, I'll flick them this thing I saw and ask him what's up, and if I didn't, I'd probably share it here as an outlet?
Edit edit: also yeh the change has been made so not sure even why it's worthwhile sharing my view on it now anyway. I'm sleepy night y'all
I appreciate you sharing