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    It’s content we want to post and literally no mod has ever explained why rule 8 exists despite several users asking repeatedly. I see it as essentially the same as the “main” rule at this point, just some random bullshit the mods made up to remove more posts, and I treat it with exactly as much respect shrug-outta-hecks

    The whole thing doesn’t make any sense anyway. The rule is against “low effort content” but low effort apparently means posting stuff that has low engagement and is therefore harder to find, and high effort is apparently posting whatever you see as soon as you navigate to twitter.com. literally backwards. Mods refuse to explain this

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      The rule has actually been explained multiple times you’re just obstinate about it being bad. I thought it was bad at first too then it was explained to me and I realized it wasn’t.

      Anyway this post wasnt about rule 8 it was about not posting dunk tank content in cth.

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        The rule has actually been explained multiple times you’re just obstinate about it being bad. I

        No it literally was not. I know this because when it was introduced and several users said the rule sucked an admin or sitemod or whatever appeared in the thread and said “it’s good actually” and I and several other users asked why it exists and they said “because the mods decided it will exist and it’s not changing and that’s that”

        They literally "because I said so"ed us

        Anyway this post wasnt about rule 8 it was about not posting dunk tank content in cth.

        You mean exactly what we all said would happen when the mods introduced a random rule banning popular content from a popular comm with no explanation?

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              Because I didnt make this thread to have a discussion about Rule 8 but some of you have been so consistently angry about it since it was made and haven’t dropped the issue such that I cant even mention it in passing while talking about a different problem without you bringing it back up again.

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                The thing is, it isn’t a different problem regardless of how much you insist that it is. The fundamental problem is that there is content people want to post, and they are not allowed to post it where it would make the most sense, so they post it elsewhere. Since no mod has given a clear explanation about why this content is disallowed or even what content specifically is disallowed (explicitly it is “vibes based”) people are wary of posting anything that could potentially be interpreted as rule-breaking to the comm where that rule exists and instead post it to the comms where there aren’t weird unexplained rules that might get their posts removed for no reason

                The problem would go away if mods either explained the rule ever or simply removed it, but since they refuse to do either we see this phenomenon you’re posting about

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                I mean it’s well established on hexbear that it is not allowed to throw insults at comrades over petty bullshit, which is strictly enforced and is why his comment was quickly removed. What exactly am I supposed to be self-reflecting about?

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        Rule 8 is to stop people posting every random dipshit with a bad opinion

        Right. Why is it desirable to stop that? That’s what the dunk tank is for. And limiting it to posting only random dipshits with bad opinions who happen to have high follower count is supposed to improve the quality how?

        and it’s rarely enforced either

        IDK what to tell you comrade thats just not an accurate description of reality

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          Right. Why is it desirable to stop that?

          Your contention is that the rule has never been explained, but in actuality its purpose is quite clear. You just don’t agree with it.

          IDK what to tell you comrade thats just not an accurate description of reality

          I post in the dunk tank all the time and I’ve literally never had a post removed for Rule 8

          I’m going to say this may be a skill issue

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            Your contention is that the rule has never been explained, but in actuality its purpose is quite clear.

            I don’t know, to me explaining a rule includes explaining why it is desirable to have the rule in place. It is very clear what the rule does, it disallows any content a mod arbitrarily decides was posted by someone who isn’t famous enough. The question I want explained is why that content should be disallowed. And that is the question no one has answered.

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                Personally I really don’t understand all of the hostility and smug satisfaction with which you guys are regarding simple confusion regarding a rule that no one has ever explained. Is it not normal to be dissatisfied with arbitrary rules that have no apparent benefit to anyone and make one’s experience worse? If you’re so smugly superior to caring about this rule, why are you posting about it in this thread and trying to make me feel like I’m being unreasonable?

                It feels very mean-spirited and I really don’t understand it. It really does feel like straight up trolling, like if the mods enforced the “main” rule outside of the main comm and anyone who asks why gets treated like we’re the ones being silly. Of course your posts should have “main” in them, why should we allow low-quality posts that don’t contain the word “main”

                Frankly if you’re getting your posts removed for violating the main rule that’s just a skill issue I don’t have that problem

                The mods have explained why the main rule exists it’s so that you don’t post stuff that doesn’t contain “main” what do you mean that isn’t a good enough explanation

                Why do people keep posting stuff that doesn’t contain “main” it’s getting really annoying

                Why are you being such an obstinate ass, just get over the main rule stop bringing it up

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                    I mean I’ve pointed out the part that I feel is unexplained and I still feel that way. I’m sorry that you’re apparently freaking the fuck out over someone on the internet having a different opinion than you. Have you considered that I have like 10 twitter followers and therefore my comments are low quality and you shouldn’t be paying attention to them at all?