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i don't like it either but i don't think the solution is to continually put jokes we don't like into boxes. typically i just roll my eyes and scroll past. if it isn't doing any real harm i think that is about what it warrants
The joke itself isn't the problem, it's the volume of the posts
The first four or five pages of the feed have been majority beanis spam all day
that's kinda what the comm is for though. i don't think putting a smaller trashcan next to the big trashcan is gonna make the trash stink less
Kinda sucks that a couple users can decide it's their own personal trash can and make it unusable for others though. I've said elsewhere I like that there's a place to try out low-effort bits that may or may not land.
Making badposting unusable for anything other than beanisposting is just going to move those low-effort bits back to other comms, undoing the idea of the containment comm.
i don't think that will be the case. those comms are still going to enforce their rules and weed out low-quality posts regardless of whether or not the posts in badposting are to everyone's taste
Again, it's not about the posts themselves, it's the volume of them, and the fact that the spam increases when people ask the posters to slow down
it's the toilet of the website, of course it is filled with shit
It sucks that a few petulant posters are determined to make it so other people can't shit in it
you can absolutely shit in it as well, you just shouldn't be surprised that other people's shit smells worse than your own
If you wait like 12 hours you should be able to start shitting in it again.
Community bits don't generally last longer than a day.
Beanis has been going on forever
I've never encounter this problem of my feeding being nothing but beanis. At worst I've seen it be a bit much for like an hour tops.
Wouldn't your non-beanis bad post just stand out more against the backdrop of beanis? How is this a bad thing from the perspective of someone wanting to try out /c/badposting?
No, because the beanis spam drives people to block the comm when they'd otherwise enjoy badposting. Just look at the number of people in this thread who've said they've done so
And when /c/beanisposting gets created, a new meme will take over /c/badposting, and when people whine about that meme being spammed too much, /c/stalememeposting1 will get created, and when yet another meme is being spammed too much, /c/stalememeposting2 will get created, leading to another meme being spammed too much and so on. /c/badposting by its very design will always be spammy with a few memes floating to the top. It's just more noticeable to you right now because the FOTY meme is a meme you don't find funny.
I also find it funny that people are complaining about beanis spam when Hexbear is being hit with "I'm curious" spam. At least you can just block /c/badposting if you think beanis sucks. Meanwhile, "I'm curious" spam is throughout the site.
i'm curious will be fresh for a few more hours. beanis has been here for months and is played out
Who cares? I don't understand the hostility to making a separate comm, comms are free. Beanis has been around for months, if not longer, and if another meme gets this stale and played out to the point where there have been multiple struggle sessions about containing it, there's literally no reason not to make a containment comm.
there's literally no reason not to make a containment comm.
We already have a containment comm. It's called /c/badposting. You want a containment comm for the containment comm and presumably multiple containment comms of the containment comm since /c/badposting would just spam a different meme if beanis gets banned there.
Who cares? I don't understand the hostility to making a separate comm, comms are free.
Because a bunch of dead comms is itself a form of spam. Who wants to scroll through a bunch of dead comms clogging up the list in the communities tab? A lot of the dead comms like /c/taylorswift or /c/chapotraphouse3 should just be merged with /c/main, /c/chapotraphouse, /c/memes, or even /c/badposting.
It goes back to my point about you being annoyed about one particular form of spam while not caring about another. You don't care about "I'm curious" spam or dead comms spam because you either don't care or think they're funny while you care about beanis spam because you think beanis is cringe. It's fine to have your own personal preference, but you're not the only person who browses this website and not everyone shares the same personal preference as you.
Seriously, nobody here goes, "all the memes on /c/badposting are funny except for the beanis posting." The vast majority of people here either block /c/badposting because they think both beanis and non-beanis /c/badposting posts are unfunny low-effort trash or they do not care about /c/badposting. And now that I think about it, beanis isn't even the most used meme on /c/badposting. The most used meme is pissing/farting/shitting/sharding. How many /c/badposting posts have a punchline that ends in the expulsion of solid (shit), liquid (piss), or gaseous (fart) waste? So, this whole post is just you not liking beanis even though beanis is arguably not even the most overused meme/joke on /c/badposting.
a couple users
highly rec just blocking those users
Their other posts are decent to good
ah well it's easier for me because i disagree
Eh, to each one's own, I don't think much of it.
I don't mind one or two posts here and there, but it's just outright spam at this point
Worse, whenever anyone points out that the amount of spam is annoying, the spam doubles
But by all means, make the exclusively beanisposting comm
Sorry I didn't realize asking beanis posting to have its own comm to contain the spam was literally the same as homophobia, glad I was educated by the beanisposter I oppressed by making this request. I'll self-crit.
On a serious note, that reaction is a great reason why beanis posting should have its own comm
I blocked bad posting months ago and it significantly improved my experience here
I'm getting to that point but I honestly like 80% of the non-bean-spam bad posts, and it's nice to have a low-effort comm to post stupid bits in when I'm not sure if they're going to land
The culture of posting even more bean spam in response to people asking for bean containment really sucks though
What about HD, high quality beanis posting?
yes being more annoying is clearly the answer here
If it wasn't annoying, it wouldn't be bad posting, now would it?
but this is c/commrequest...
to be serious though i don't find most of the posts there annoying, no. really i don't even necessarily find beanis posts annoying; they're kind of just repetitive filler that i pass over. that said i do think some of you (not you per se) are being pretty ridiculous and hostile towards a fairly benign and polite request
idk i don't really care about this one much but comparing "can we please put x posting into a containment comm" to literal queer persecution almost made me shoot blood out of my eyes like one of those funny lizards
Okay fine I'll stop beanis posting for a while (as much as I can, anyway. I'm always beanis posting. It's why my parents named me this). I'll do the soviet tank effort post instead.
look your name is literally beanis, nobody asked for or expects you all to stop beanis posting. the only thing crime or anybody else ever advocated for was "can we take this over there please"
nobody wants you to stop doing what you love. they just don't want to get so fed up with you that they have to block you or the whole comm over it. i think it's important this be made clear because too many people are being weird and taking it as something more insidious (an attack on their favorite bit, a struggle session, whatever) and it's getting kinda goofy
Make c/annoyingposting for that then, there's a difference between bad and annoying
'm getting to that point but I honestly like 80% of the non-bean-spam bad posts, and it's nice to have a low-effort comm to post stupid bits in when I'm not sure if they're going to land
Where did that happen?
Check the mod log
can we split the difference and make a beanis megathread?
make another megathread
I also nominate a REgon megathread
oooh we should have a nominations megathread! and maybe a megathread megathread, to collate all the megathreads.
Yeah I unsubscribed from badposting because of those lol
It's hilarious how we're having yet another struggle session about beanis
But yeah I think a lot of problems on this site could be solved by having a filter, but until then a seperate comm seems like a good idea, but let's name it beanis buddies because of this bit idea
Didn't expect it to turn into a full blown struggle session tbh and I think I missed the others, but if it's come up more than once that's a great sign it should have a separate comm
every post should be in a different comm.
c/worseposting
Lol I literally said this as a joke like 10 minutes ago.
What happens when people start complaining that the posts in worse posting are too bad? Do we make a c/horrendousposting?
Sure, why not? Comms are free
the real problem is that lemmy is social media brained so it’s a feed instead of communities or forums. If we returned to phpbb like god intended this wouldnt actually be a problem
Every iteration of social media takes us further and further away from his light and grace (phpbb and mirc)
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