We’ve seen an uptick in people posting dunks in here that belong in dunk_tank, as well as low-hanging fruit that gets removed from or isn’t allowed in dunk_tank anymore. For context, rule 8 of dunk_tank:
Rule 8: The subject of a post cannot be low hanging fruit, that is comments/posts made by a private person that have low amount of upvotes/likes/views. Comments/Posts made on other instances that are accessible from hexbear are an exception to this.
There’s a reason that dunks are cordoned off to their own comm, some users rightfully don’t want to see reactionary nonsense all the time, even if we’re making fun of the person who said it. /c/cth is a general-purpose comm but it’s NOT for posting some random nobody asshole twitter user’s bad takes, the absolute best course of action to take when you see that stuff out in the wild is to either directly shit on them yourself, or ignore them and don’t give them more attention.
From this point on I’m going to be more stringent about moderating this. I get it, it’s fun to dunk on the libs and the blue checks and the 
and that’s why we have a whole dedicated comm for that. Any post that’s obviously meant to be “hey look at this piece of shit, let’s laugh at how bad their opinions are, upbears to the left and emojis in chat” belongs in the_dunk_tank. And any super low-hanging fruit doesn’t belong on this site, period (see TDT rule 8 above). We have better things to do with our time than give unearned attention, time and energy to low-follower-count nobodies yelling into the void.
Thanks for your discretion comrades, stay sicko 
edit: as others have pointed out, /c/shitreactionariessay@lemmygrad.ml is a good place for any and all dunking content not allowed here. Post that ragebait to our comrades at the 'grad, they’ll make good use of it. Also, per rule 9 of TFT dunking on fediverse users is still explicitly allowed so it’s still open season on those in our own backyard.
This is an entirely predictable result of the addition of the bad rule 8 to the_dunk_tank
-ElGosso, 30 days ago on the dunk tank rule change post. Hm. Must be a psychic. Only explanation.
I called it too and asked for a quarantine zone for those kinda posts but was denied. LET US HAVE OUR SLOP
This conviction the mods seem to have that “[dunking on] super low-hanging fruit doesn’t belong on this site, period” is weird and bad
Also “low hanging fruit” are posts not a lot of people have seen, while I guess the “high effort dunks” are posting whatever garbage Elon and jk have been up to because they have more views. Seems backwards to me :shrug-outta-hecks:
“I saw this and now you have to see this too” is not a good reason for posting. People don’t need to see every bad take on the internet.
“I saw this, thought it was a funny bad take, and am now sharing with other people who will laugh at this fool” is usually my thought. I imagine the same is true for other dunk tank posters?
No one actually has to view the dunk tank. They can block it, scroll by, whatever. I scroll past a lot of posts. Hextube gets pinned all the time, but is of no relevance to me. Other comms I’ve blocked all together 🤷
i didn’t need a reason to keep posting
That’s why there was a whole comm for it
The comm for that is now https://hexbear.net/c/shitreactionariessay@lemmygrad.ml
So a popular type of post many hexbear users like is no longer allowed on Hexbear at all? Why?
A coalition of site mods and the admins came to a consensus. It’s no longer considered permitted content on the site.
It’s a done deal, there’s no point in crying over spilled milk.
Yeah, but it should cool off after a while. I’m sure that now both comms are going after the low hanging fruit posts the posts will just wean off.
What is wrong with low hanging fruit anyway
It’s not like making fun of reactionary losers is important work or anything
So ignore them and let them settle to the bottom of the pile with all the other poor engagement posts
So, what you’re saying is to defeat bad posts in the marketplace of ideas, rather than to use political power to do so?
Why do we have to “defeat” bad posts at all? Hexbear is a site where a significant portion of the posts are bad on purpose. We have an entire comm dedicated to posting the worst posts we can come up with. Title: I farded, body: hehe is a completely valid Hexbear post. In fact, it’s probably been posted multiple times already.
We should be “defeating” posts that are racist, ableist, transphobic, liberal, etc. We shouldn’t be “defeating” posts that are bad, that’s what this site is for
I literally just made a joke, but go off I guess.
Maybe if you could articulate an actual reason that you’ve chosen one particular genre of hexbear post to bully people with your mod powers over, I would be more open to laughing at your jokes. As it stands, your communications here just sound lifeless and corporate and make it difficult to entertain any humor involved.
Your application of your political ideology to how you think the site should be run is incoherent enough that being facetious in that fashion doesn’t work.