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General Megathread for Elon Musk Nonsense and Twitter News (beehaw.org)
submitted 3 years ago by [M] to c/technology@beehaw.org
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Hey folks -

The seemingly never-ending flood of Musk/Twitter news and commentary is getting to some of our users (and some of the mods, too), so we've decided to create a general Megathread for all things related to Elon Musk and X/Twitter.

This thread will be a general Musk catch-all, so we're including news about Musk acting the fool as related to any of his companies (SpaceX, Tesla, Boring). News about those companies that don't involve Elon can be posted outside this thread.

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[–] 10 points 3 years ago (7 children)

So despite the fact that a ton of current tech news revolves around Elon musk and his companies, the solution is to bury any and all discussion about him in a megathread we all know people will never read or comment on?

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    News about the companies that don't involve him are still allowed outside the thread. The idea here is more to contain stuff about the man himself, as it gets spammy and repetitive after a while

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago* (3 children)

    News about the companies that don’t involve him are still allowed outside the thread.

    That is not entirely correct.

    so we’ve decided to create a general Megathread for all things related to Elon Musk and X/Twitter.

    This thread will be a general Musk catch-all, so we’re including news about Musk acting the fool as related to any of his companies (SpaceX, Tesla, Boring).

    So 1) ALL things X/Twitter/Musk, 2) you can only talk about his other companies if it doesn't involve him (which are the vast majority of stories about his companies).

    This is functionally banning Musk and his companies from being discussed. No one will check the megathread. We both know this.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I hope you can appreciate and understand that the decision was made, in part, because we had users asking for it. I recognize the shortcomings of a megathread. However it won't be possible to make every user here happy. We've taken the actions that we thought were best based on the desires of some of our users.

    We appreciate feedback, and are welcoming any suggestions on how this could be handled better

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    I hope you can appreciate and understand that the decision was made, in part, because we had users asking for it.

    So the squeaky wheel gets the oil it sounds like. I see a bunch of people in this thread saying it's a terrible idea. What's the bar for action?

    However it won’t be possible to make every user here happy.

    I understand but there are other solutions besides banning incredibly relevant topics.

    We’ve taken the actions that we thought were best based on the desires of some of our users.

    As a former mod I respect this, truly, and I'm not going to go on crusade here I'm keeping my thoughts here for now. But the fact is we both know megathreads do not stay active and no one likes to participate in them because they know no one sees them. At the bare minimum you need this to be a weekly megathread you post. This is way too broad to just entirely prohibit outside of a single thread no one will see. If you're taking suggestions, that's my slightly-less-crappy solution.

    At the very least I'd respect this a lot more if we didn't pretend this didn't end these topics for good.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    So the squeaky wheel gets the oil it sounds like. I see a bunch of people in this thread saying it’s a terrible idea. What’s the bar for action?

    This, there are more upvotes complaining about the megathred being bad than upvotes supporting it. Either people for it don't care enough to interact or have just ignored the entire thread.

    This is a stifling thread, there will be nothing Elon related posted here (and hasn't been yet, everything is about megathred) if there is it will not be read. As of my posting the next newest post I see is 17 hours ago. This thread is effectively dead.

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