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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 [email protected]

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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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What is most confusing to me about it is rule 8 doesn't read (to me) the way Emma is interpreting it. If the rule was "don't get made at fake shit and unfathomably fringe opinions that only a single twitter pervert supposedly has." I'd feel a lot better about it and I think most detractors would too (maybe not though). But the actual rule seems very different to me. When the mods said it would get rewritten I imagined something a whole lot more like what Emma just said then the rule 8 we actually got. The rewrite was mostly reversing it from "Must be popular/lot of upvotes" to "Must not be unpopular/low upvotes". Which, again at least to me, doesn't really change it.

I don't know, maybe I'm getting too caught up in the wording.

rule 8 for my mobile comrades

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.

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That's enough whining from me, honestly not even sure if I should post but shrug-outta-hecks

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

You (and everyone) should always post. Posting is Praxis.

But yes I think this is really the issue; the rule should be more clear, even if it just "mod discretion on this" then fine, write it that way. This community is undoubtedly full of anxious folks who will have a post they wanna share, look at the rules, go "I dunno I'm scared" and then just...not. I'd rather people err on the side of posting and having it removed because "doesn't meet the criteria for vibe check" than folks go "I dunno if that's allowed or not" and just ... not post. More posts more better I think.