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[–] dead@hexbear.net 1 point 17 hours ago

The more that I think about this tag, the more hilarious it becomes. You tag me as if I had some malicious intention by wanting to have the slop comm be moderated. Your post proves me to be correct.

The fact that the post got 20 upvotes shows that nobody actually read the link to see that it said "ADVERTISEMENT" at the top of the page. This demonstrates the dogmatic behavior in the current form of the slop comm.

If I've learned anything from the response to my proposal is that hexbears have no idea what this comm is intended to be. Every hexbear thinks that the comm's purpose is something different.

The only similarity between posts on the slop comm are smugness, condescension, and lack of any substantial criticism. You didn't know that you were posting an advertisement and many other slop posters don't know what they are posting. Users post thumbnails of videos and don't watch the video. Users post screenshots of headlines and don't read the article.

The lack of direction of the comm promotes ignorance. The comm has become a substitute of criticism. Users post things that they don't like and don't even explain what the criticism is. The fact that it is posted into the slop comm is the criticism. This prevents any meaningful discussion from happening.

Imagine there's a web forum for medical workers and medical workers are frustrated by the things that their patients tell them. So they make a comm called "shitpatientssay". This comm would serve the purpose of a way to showcase incorrect things that patients says, so that the medical workers can share their frustration and also offer advice to handle the patients.

Then a year ago by, some of the medical workers are not only sharing things that their patients said but also sharing photos of their patients and even photos of injuries that the patients have. One doctor uploads a photo of a man with a broken arm, the post is titled "He said he didn't know what happened". This post becomes vastly popular, how could a patient not know what caused their arm to be broken?

Some of the doctors are made uncomfortable by these photos, some are disgusted and some say that it violates the trust of the patient. Other medical workers like feeling the disgust and seek out the photos.

It becomes clear to some that the comm is being used, not as a way to criticize or correct the patient, but instead as a way to mock the patient, to feel disgust towards the patient.

Eventually the comm gets to the point where 30% of the posts in the comm are not things that patients have said. Users are posting links to controversial medical journals. Users are posting videos of drug commercials. Some people are even posting articles to mass casualty incidents like plane crashes and mass shootings. These things have no resemblance to the comm's original purpose.

A proposal is made to reform the comm to be limited to posts being about things that patients actually said.

The users cry "If the comm is limited to incorrect things that patients say, where will I post images of the badly cooked food in my hospital's cafeteria?"

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