The Dredge Tank. For posting all the low tier reactionary bullshit that you can't post anywhere else. Got some bullshit from Reddit with 2 upvotes and want to share, post it here.
This community was created with the purpose that Rule 8 fans will just block it.
The rules are literally The Dunk Tank's rules, just without rule 8.
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.
malicious hexbears are taking advantage of people's trauma to turn them against the west folks (and judging by the recent survey, turning them trans too? 
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https://lemmy.world/comment/12777548 link cuz im not a lib
the comment in the screeshot is responding to @[email protected]'s wholesome introduction post here: https://hexbear.net/post/3631051
I made a TLDR here: https://hexbear.net/comment/5484512
The real trick is to not take any online community top seriously, whether you like it or hate it.
Failing that, don't post.
what about the community bottoms?
Hey it's me, the bottom.
E: also can this be in their next screenshot ragepost please? I'm old as fuck so it's not grooming.
i disagree somewhat, i think you can make a much more serious online community. I'm not a huge fan of the position that nothing online matters, it feels reactionary to me and inaccurate. not to say that online is literally as important as IRL, but i see too much dismissive attitudes towards. that being said hexbear was not and is not built to be a serious site, it's like a communist bar instead of an organization out to accomplish a goal and so yeah you really should not take it super seriously.
Participation in an online community is fundamentally less serious than an actual community, for one the stakes, in terms of community membership and exclusion and identify are much weaker.
When this website started there were efforts to try to take it seriously in multiple ways. Things like admin accountability and due process for bans and all of that stuff were discussed to boredom (think user union). But all of that language and even that com have been discarded because none of that make sense to talk about for an online space that is at a fundamental level, privately owned by some person/people, and where the strongest sanction (banning) is so easily circumvented.
there is truth to this, but I also dont think these are unsolvable problems. In large part it's how this place that started out. it originated from a shitposting subreddit dedicated to a podcaster of shitposters, it would take a ton of work to turn it into a serious organization. did the people who actually paid for and ultimately controlled the server want any of this stuff? i dont know enough about the site's history. I also don't know how much risk in it for them, do any of the admins actually know each other's names and/or faces? I honestly don't even know what user union would be used for, the literal only threat i could see is if a group of people were designated as people who would make a splinter site if the union got together and voted that the admins had gone rogue, and I dont see why the admins would care unless they were actually paid to moderate and develop the site. same thing for admin accountability, i'm not sure what exactly the usefulness of that concept even is. and did they even have actual goals by trying to make hexbear more serious?
I'm not saying it should be serious, in fact I'm saying it should be treated with levity, because it can't be serious. The linked OP takes it too seriously, which is funny.
i dont disagree, was more just commenting on the nature of whether anything can be taken seriously online
Oh you absolutely can, you just shouldn't.
yes so we've circled around to it, I don't agree but I'm not really trying to start an argument about it I've just been confused if you thought I was saying we should take hexbear super seriously or not.
That's fair.