Slop is for gossip, the only rule for fake news is that it’s OC only. I didn’t think “Mark Wahlberg Claims Elon Musk’s Botched Penis Implant Wouldn’t Have Gone Down Like That If He Was Attending Surgeon” was going to set off the “I can’t actually tell if this is real and that makes me upset” brigade.
“I can’t actually tell if this is real and that makes me upset” brigade.
pretty dickish way to put “autistic person gets fooled by deliberate impersonation posts”
fake news is just sometimes unfunny, impersonation where you try to play on someone else’s existing reputation to say upsetting shit and point and laugh at anyone who cares enough to be upset by it is a different category.
I agree there should be a comm that allows this though. I expect in fakenews it wouldn’t actually get removed but idk, and ofc there’s comms on other instances for it.
Maybe I’m being over sensitive, going back through the comm there’s one satirical post almost 2 weeks ago and it just seems like the complaints are outsized for how often this kind of stuff is posted.
I just assumed you were referring to the metapost on grad recently that got locked because people were getting a little heated in the comments. Which was specifically about the impersonation of wtypstan and xiaohongshu.
I think complaints about fakenews are mostly either “I don’t think its funny and want the ability to block it” or “some users are using it in a harassing/impersonating way” (which hasn’t been a major issue lately but was briefly years ago iirc
The main problem in my opinion with the xiaohongshu impersonator post was that it was literally just Zenzposting but with weird piss fetish stuff buried at the end but if impersonation is what got it removed fine I guess.
I mean yeah, I also don’t find that funny, but I don’t think it needs to be banned entirely from the site, we have containment comms for a reason. Honestly even the impersonation would have been… I hesitate to say fine but not a big deal, if it was just used to make a bit post in fakenews or badposting or something.
It wasn’t in the “containment” comm, it was posted here in c/chat. And now that I checked, it wasn’t even actually removed, it just got the impersonator account banned. The posts are still up and unlocked now.
The trouble with containment comms is that those contained in them don’t actually stay contained.
outright bans of certain types of posts also won’t prevent someone from registering new accounts and making them anyhow any more than containment comms do, its a matter of moderation
I agree they are obviously inappropriate for c/chat. I reported both of them, lets see what happens
Oh no I can agree that wtyp stuff was fucked and in bad taste regardless of any opinions I might have on the people in question.
I usually see people post satire in the chapotraphouse comm.
My gripe with the slop comm is that people sometimes post real news stories there. The slop comm says in the sidebar and in the launch announcement that the purpose of the slop comm is discussing “anonymous reactionary bullshit”. By that definition, the White House, Trump, Democratic Party, Republican Party should not be posted in the slop comm. If Trump says something stupid, it could be news or politics. If Trump enacts new tariffs, that is a news story, not slop. If the Republican Party or Democrat party says that they are going to do something stupid, that is politics. When the White House, says something bad that is politics. Slop is when a random citizen, voter, redditor, etc says something reactionary.
That’s where I’ve always posted them but I’m getting mod removals now.
Wait, people actually complain about hardtimes and onion articles? That’s baffling. They’re silly shitposts that clearly label themselves, it’s not at all like the problem of “literally this one poster keeps making ‘news’ posts where the joke is that it’s a lie and not even like a funny one” that c/fakenews was made to quarantine.
The last time I posted an Onion-esque article, again 2 months ago half the comments were telling me to take it elsewhere and someone reported it. I get that there are people who have trouble parsing this kind of stuff but it’s easy to check and even when I get got I laugh it off and go about my day.
brigade
Lol, ass
I just don’t find that type of post funny and would rather have them blocked at once. I was actually thinking that having the post removed wasn’t helping because there wouldn’t be a nice place for such posts to reside that I could then block lmao
I’m sorry that was a little harsh, the last Onion article I posted two months ago had half the comments complaining about it and apparently got reported, figured this was esoteric enough I was gonna dodge complaints.
Yeah, if the post wasn’t removed I woulda mentioned that I didn’t mean any ill will towards you for making the post lol - the disgusted “ugh” didn’t help with the tone though I’m sure.
IMO it’s weird that this type of post isn’t allowed on c/fakenews, but I admit the mind of the fakenews mod is an enigma to me
It was originally just containment for Melina posting and I assume they didn’t want it to just be Onion articles.
I’m not posting outside of Hexbear.
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o do we not have an Onion comm here? I thought we did? 🤔
I’ve always posted them in c/chapotraphouse and it’s never been a problem until very recently. Been mulling over that Melina maybe soured some of the user base to the very idea of fake headlines because I still see people complaining about the “Random celebrity found dead in a pile of their own vomit” stuff even though nothing like that has been posted in over a year.
I’m sure this isn’t the right comm for this but it looks like c/feedback got 86’d and I didn’t think it was right for main either.
As far as I can tell, there just is no correct place for meta posts at all
Main
New comm
C/TheFunyun
Make it happen
Yeah I considered it but it seems sorta silly to make another off shoot that’s going to maybe see a couple posts a week.
c/fakenews?
Either that, or if there’s a com for onion articles
I already mentioned that fake news is OC only
Sorry, I have ADHD and didn’t read your post close enough.
What’s your opinion of From Software just curious?
I don’t really have a strong opinion about them tbh, I’ve never really been able to get into the Souls games and I played Elden Ring for maybe 10 hours.
I see what you’re angling at here by the way and it’s almost kind of a relief because I assumed it was fairly easy for most people to discern what my old account was.
I was just curious is all
