I have come to the conclusion that meta-posts suck. They drain everyone of their energy, and they quickly fill up with essay long paragraphs that I have no desire or attention span to wade through and fuck up my mental health.
Rather than focus on site-wide issues, the purpose of this post is to get feedback on this specific comm. What issues do you see here specifically that you would like us to focus more on?
I hope to address problems in a pinpoint manner, and then cross reference those concerns across other comms through similar posts in order to address the bigger picture in the end.
I have no intention of having this post pinned. Too much visibility will drown out everyone’s voices in a cacophony of noise. Please keep your comments relatively short and concise, using frequent paragraph breaks for longer comments so that the information can be easily digested. It helps with my ADHD
If this goes smoothly, I plan to work my way through other comms I moderate and address the specific problems there, too.
edit: I was advised to pin it to this comm, it shall remain unpinned to the main page though.
My suggestion is that comms not be divided into “good thing vs bad thing”, but instead posts be categorized by who is involved and the material impact of the subject. People most often complain that there are posts about things that they don’t care about, so basically this splits posts into order of material importance. We are materialists after all, right?
Category 1) news-worthy events
government actions
politicians doing things or talking about policy
world events
category 2) political events and formal commentary
political figure says something related to policy
political organizing
opinion essays/articles
category 3) cultural events (ex https://old.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/ )
political figure says something unrelated to policy
celebrity says something or does something insignificant
internet personality says something
social media trends
category 4) snark (ex r/ShitLiberalsSay)
stupid things that non-famous people say
non-famous internet posts that you hate
internet personalities that you would be ashamed to talk about in public
Category 4 is stuff that you can’t explain to a stranger in public. Example, some misogynist on twitter writes a screed about women in video games.
Right now, c/gossip is most similar to category 3 and c/slop is most similar to category 4.
I also would like to consider the idea that “c/gossip” shouldn’t just be dunking on things, but instead an observation of pop culture. Roger Waters. being pro-Palestine and Thom Yorke being a Zionist is kind-of in the same category of discussion. Someone who doesn’t know or care about who Thom Yorke is, also probably doesn’t care about Roger Waters.
Hexbear currently lacks a place for posting cultural events. There are niche entertainment comms, there’s no comm for general cultural. Every newspaper has a culture/style section.
I think c/gossip should be a general pop culture discussion, which could include dunks on public figures, but also good things that celebrities do, or weird things that celebrities do. Let the commenter on the post decide whether the thing is good or bad.
Then have c/slop be the dredge comm where you can make fun of internet posts that you don’t like.
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