On the other side was a mix of users going either “yeah, but I just feel like it isn’t an issue” and users going “fuck you I’m gonna stack rocks anyway” as if rock-stacking was their livelyhood and users trying to rules-lawyer the thing like “what if it isn’t a running stream? What if I’m in a desert? What if it’s volcanic rocks?” The reaction was wildly outsized, but apparently hexbear has a large rock-stacking userbase

Critical stage “let people enjoy things” ideology, right there, where it’s so spiteful against even the slightest suggestion of behavior improvement that rock stacking becomes a weird contrarian mandate to stick it to the scolds.