Rule 8 always sucked for being too vague. In practice, it just means "do not submit shit takes from Reddit, Lemmy, Discord, and Youtube comments. Shit takes from Twitter are only allowed if they use their face as a pfp. Shit takes from non social media sources like articles are fair game."
With election season (and the deterioration of Biden's brain) ramping up, it's going to be even more pointless because it's going to be trivial to find a shit take from some journo. Like, we have some ex-Soviet spy unironically saying Biden got Havana syndrome on the day of the debate, and the takes are going to be more and more unmoored from reality with each passing day.
The dunk tank is supposed to be a containment comm, and to the surprise of absolutely no one, once rule 8 was established, the low-effort dunks went to the generic comm, which is /c/chapotraphouse. /c/the_dunk_tank is posting slop, and it's going to stay as posting slop. It had some potential of radicalizing other people when we used it to brigade^TM^ other instances, but the federation era of Hexbear is over.

I personally think mods should rescind Rule 8 while at the same time be a lot stricter about removing dunks from /c/chapotraphouse. People in the dunk tank want their slop and people who blocked the dunk tank don't want to see that shit in /c/chapotraphouse. Everybody is happy.

I honestly had stayed away from Rule 8 discussion for a while, but this is just going to get worse as we move closer to the election. Mods and admins need to find a satisfactory solution.

[–] mar_k@hexbear.net 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

heavy on 1. i get weeding out typical, unoriginal stupid shit, cesspool chud threads, argument chains, etc. but a lot of takes from nobodies are confidently wrong, absurd, whatever enough to be genuinely funny or even start memes here. the tommy needy drinky one comes to mind for some reason

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.

this is straight up like 40% of the site taglines. and you could find posts like this with hundreds of upvotes and no complaints

i could literally look through the history of the active posters here supporting rule 8 and find multiple past dunk posts from most of them violating it. and a lot of them would be bangers!

[–] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

i could literally look through the history of the active posters here supporting rule 8 and find multiple past dunk posts from most of them violating it. and a lot of them would be bangers!

This is exactly what I've been saying. It's never been enforced that strictly!