Honestly wtf, I thought it was just a mild disagreement/miscommunication, but this is just deranged. This reeks of shitty people using leftist terminology to disguise their abhorrent personalities. How many of you dickheads argued for stacking rocks? NOOOO EVERYTHING HAS TO EXIST FOR ME is what this response reads like. Do self-crit dork ass losers.

“dunk culture” can be fun but it’s rarely constructive, gives off white cishet man vibes, and has the potential to shift closer to the reactionary reddit “snark”.

It promotes misanthropy and, depending on the post can serve as an outlet for “acceptable” bigotry by copy/pasting the most heinous takes without pushing back and sometimes without a CW.

We have all seen those toxic and reactionary opinions 200 million times, ultimately it is just getting really mad at other powerless people.

Lmao wtf is this line of thought supposed to be? There's no real reasoning beyond "I don't like it". I can also just say shit. This line of reasoning promotes "acceptable" bigotry by ignoring the most heinous takes and insisting we engage bigots by way of rigorous debate, which just elevates them. We have all seen the toxic and reactionary opinions get discussed thoroughly 200 million times, to which the only result has been further empowerment and legitimisation, on top of that, the lack of any space to just breathe and acknowledge that these things are toxic and crazy is something we all haven't had the chance to experience.

The name gossip is because it makes the content seem deeply unserious, like the posts about Elon Musk, celebrities, journalists, all the streamer infighting, YouTuber arguments, podcast guys, etc. Locking the dunk/dredge tanks will help with toning down the irony poisoning on this site esp from white people.

I look down on this, therefore it has to have a the name of something I also look down on. This is because everybody who enjoys the dunk tank is white, and enjoying it is inherently white.

It is such a white internet communist turn-off for me and it permeates this site. In addition, a lot of people have mentioned that there's a definite air of misogyny around the way the site is currently doing dunks, and calling it like it is, gossip, should prove to be not only a method of finding out problematic users, but also a more entertaining way of letting people talk about other public figures besides just Elon Musk and US political candidates

things I dislike are white and I am incapable of using the "block" botton. Everything has to be for me on this site.

We absolutely need to be more vigilant about toxic behavior in these spaces, there's a non-zero amount of ironic bigotry that has slipped through the cracks to the point where I've independently had multiple different people mention it as a concern.

Look thru this thread and tell me it's the "pro dunk tank" people that have been toxic or bigoted. Jesus christ just say you don't like it.

Counterpropaganda posts cutting apart shitty Op-eds, MIC insider articles, journalistic stories, etc. are celebrated and encouraged, and will be separated from the shitpostier/chattier nature of the gossip community.

They are neither celebrated nor encouraged, since it's a new comm dumbass. Just say you wanted that content from the dunk tank, but you can't, because that is the content that was in the dunk tank. Wtf is this argument/statement supposed to say?

Dunk culture is along the lines of doing mutual self harm, like a smoking social club. You all go in and smoke together and encourage one another to keep smoking, and you feel a sense of community and a sense that what you're doing is cool and fun, like putting a poster over the hole in the wall instead of fixing the wall.

Liberals and making wack analogies that make no sense instead of relating to the topic at hand (which has several people arguing directly about "health") name a more iconic duo.

We want us to continue to be a fun shitposting forum. But there are tons of other kinds of shitposting.

Okay? Then ban those too? Either shitposting is fine or it isn't. Just because you like it doesn't make it better somehow.

Remember "bad guy bit accounts" when we had like civility and neera_tanden and all those other bit accounts where they just posted and argued while larping as annoying liberals or chuds? We grew out of that, and I think the site is better for it. We still have bit accounts, but there's not really that kind of arguing in the comments anymore.

Civility is still around. We have two comms dedicated to the concept of "bad guy bit accounts" (badposting and fakenews). Just because you dislike it doesn't make it inherently bad. Mods learn to utilise the block button ffs.

We can grow out of dunk culture too, and I think the site will also be better for it. We don't have to have a site culture defined by our flailing opposition to mainstream pop culture and politics, uselessly posted where nobody else will see it.

Libs and describing things they dislike as childlike, despite the things not being different from the things they themselves enjoy, name a more iconic duo.
This makes no sense. Yeah we don't have to have a site culture defined by dunking, but we do, by account of that being the basis of this site. The site is an offshoot of r/chapotraphouse. It's in large part about low effort shitposting. It drives massive amounts of its' traffic. If you don't want that, why are you here? This is the place I go for dunking jfc, that's what this place is for you mockery.

This change has the potential to make HB a lot less toxic improve the quality of posts, we are assessing these changes over the next two weeks and will open the floor for discussion at that time.

Considering the fact that the most toxic users in this thread have been those that dislike the dunk tank... What? How will this make it less "toxic"? How was the dunk tank toxic? Once again: Just because you personally dislike content, does not mean it is toxic or bad.

To all of these mods: