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2mo ago

Comm request: the_dunk_court

Per @CARCOSA@hexbear.net's suggestion in the thread announcing the closure of the tank comms I am suggesting a replacement comm

The concept of the comm is that it would be exactly the same as the_dunk_tank but without the unfortunate racist connotations of the name. Also, the name actually describes the content that is intended for it. Not sure why we made it any more complicated than that in the first place. Also, you can post things like articles from The Atlantic, which are also notable, and not just stuff about famous people.

Also, we should just go ahead and unlock Dredge_Tank

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c/slop
- a spectre is haunting hexbear
- Honestly this is it.

i like my slop, i will be eternally mad at the powers that be taking it away from me, no this is not sarcasm. i am upset
- This site was founded on slop dagnabbit
  
  We built our castle on pillars of sand
  
  we built this city on slop and lulz
- There hasn't been any clarification on why this change was made and whether it reflects the desires of the mod team, the admins, or something else. That hasn't helped to quash rumors and give people a sense of what's going on with the site.

Just unlock the dredge tank and let the slop flow through there.
- I honestly thought UlyssesT made the Dredge tank just for Drej jokes. I forget that we have sidebars all the time and didn't realize it had different rules.
  
  Nah he just had a compulsive urge to drive certain emotes/gifs into the ground and then keep beating that horse months after it's dessicated remains were ground to dust.

I suggest to change whatever the new main Dredge/Dunk tank replacement is to
/c/pit
or
/c/Barbara_Pit
- This is good too

Locking these comms was a mistake, and trying to ban "low effort" posts will kill the site long term. We're a shitposting social media site descended from a shitposting subreddit. Shitposting is part of our culture--a big part. If you ban low-effort posts, you're not going to get more effort posts--you're just going to get fewer posts. A lot of people come here in part because they can post some essay or take by an esteemed Elder Statesman or Media Thinker and say "look at this dumb shit." Not only is that important to site culture and participation itself, lots of deeper engagement comes along with that activity.
Reopen dredge, and change the name of the other one.
- The wording of the announcement has been changed several times. I don't think it specifically mentions low effort posting now but it wasn't very clear before it was edited and it isn't very clear now.
  There hasn't been any real explanation of what the problem was that merited this change. Afaik only one Dunk tank mod commented on the reasoning and their comment was patronizing, unhelpful, and suggested more of a disconnect between the mod team and the users than an actual problem.
  
  If that's not the reason, then I'm totally puzzled by what the argument even is. I'm all for changing the name, but if we're not worried about post quality, why exactly are we closing the comms?

Oooh can we suggest names? I've got one or two ideas
These are all freebies, I got more
c/log_out_or_hog_out_and_i_am_all_out_of_logs
c/the_dunk_court
c/the_hog_pen
c/its_always_sunny_on_hexbear
c/the_hornet_nest
c/point_and_laugh
c/the_debateatorium
c/the_dunkatorium
c/the_rhetoriticians hideout
c/europe
c/the_dredge_tank
c/the_slop_canister
c/the_trough
c/slop_fields
c/the_idiot_store
c/liberalism
c/the_Hillary_Clinton_fanclub
c/occasional_sectarianism
c/the_burn_ward
c/lenins_rejects
c/30_to_50_feral_hogs
c/posts_from_stupid_idiots
c/come_in_here_if_you_are_a_liberal_and_wanna_get_bullied
c/death_to_liberals
c/death_to_america
c/we_love_cars_please_come_in_here_and_join_us_if_you_love_cars c/politics
c/theory (for low effort dunks)
c/low_effort_dunks (for theory)
c/redditor_safe_space
c/redditor_containment_ward
c/the_wedgie_zone
c/the_bone_zone
c/the_dogtank
c/the_sharktank
c/the_tank_full_of_animals_in_an_supervillain_lair
c/piranha_river
c/three_possums_in_a_suit
c/just_a_bunch_of_alligators c/the_nutsack
c/the_asscrack
c/the_pussycrack
c/the_dingdong_corner
c/oops_you_posted_something_stupid_and_now_commies_and_anarchists_are_united_in_laughing_at_you_and_they_won't_even_say_why
c/oops_you_posted_something_stupid_and_now_commies_and_anarchists_are_united_in_laughing_at_you_and_they_will_gladly_say_why
ccmain (not to be confused with c/main)
c/slop
c/your_house
c/dirt_owls_house
c/racism_is_bad_and_so_is_your_take
c/citations_needed
c/the_deep_state
c/infowars
c/the_DNC
c/ppb_central
c/i_topped_ur_dad
c/top_my_dad
c/shits_full_of_liberals
c/the_insane_asylum
- c/the_trough is a good one. I love the idea of having a place for all us hogs to get our slop.
  
  Ooh yes!
- c/the_burn_ward
  I'm making a second appeal for c/the_burn_pit
  
  I feel like that would also have some bad connotations. Something to do with mass graves or something
- c/_the_deboonk_bed
- c/Ulysses_posting
  
  or just c/ullysesT in honor of a top tier hater (of people who deserved to be dunked on)

How about intead of Dunk we use Slam? In baseball they have the same meaning and we get a little farther away from the racist meaning
- But no one says "Get slammed on son" or "You got fucking slammed on!", if we're going with Slam it has to be Space Jam themed.
  
  I said this in the other thread, but I'm in favor of point_and_laugh. Just a straightforward description of what the com is and what it's for.
  
  Insert Shaq clip of "Damn son! You just got baptized!"
  
  What about the Shit Court then. Because "get shit on" works and people will be posting shit.
  
  Synthesis: Dunkleosteus Tank and all shitposting has to be about the ocean.
  
  c/pogs
- I agree, dunk should probably be removed entirely. Kinda like the_slam_zone tbh
- I'm not married to the name or anything
  
  what if we call it c/www.yourethemannowdog.com and we just have that clip going in the background forever
- /c/the_slam_tank for famous people and /c/the_jam_tank for rando nobodies
- The Dunk_Slammer?

c/posterized

I fully support this. The changes are weird and pointless and will lead to fragmentation.

So little followup about the reasoning for the removal and so on. Not trying to stir up a shitstorm, but I am personally still a little bit confused about the reasoning and so on. One of the users that were dismissive and hostile about the concerns of closing down the two coms, turned out to be a moderator of the dunk tank. I guess I should have thought to check beforehand, but I'm lazy like that. Anyway his comments in the thread and his attitude about the dunk tank and his vibe towards those that liked it gives me a bit of a better idea of what the whole line of thought was for shutting down the comms
- Very cool to have someone mod a community they don't like, fantastic
  I also like that the solution was to shut down the comm entirely rather than seeking new mods that actually like the content of the comm
  
  I really don't get it
  
  I think it gives a hell a lot of context to the Stack Overflow-esque application of Rule 8, if nothing else
- I honestly don't mind the dunk tank rename, we will rise again.
  I will say I think the conceptual idea in separating dunk/dredge makes sense in terms of punching up vs sideways (i.e. posts from David Brooks vs ransoms from the Internet), but I also never minded the conflation so
  
  Hey me neither, there's many good names
  
  What if we made a rule that says the have to be labelled as either uppercut or haymaker, then we totally ignored that rule and got all our posts removed like I do whenever main is unlocked?>

c/the_firing_squad
- Good name

!come_on_and_slam_and_welcome_to_the_jam@hɘxbear.net

I fully support this but I am biased because I suggested the name in the other thread
Dunk Court is now in session

I suggest c/atharsis seeing as many people have made the very good argument that it’s good for their mental health to see other people bullying horrid status quo takes

c/loweffort_liberal_slopbucket

C/aristocrats

the_hog_roast - where reactionaries go to get cooked
or just any kind of riffing off of roast, since it's already used to mean the same thing as dunking but without the history
- I feel like we're gonna rename that at some point again. Can't have hog roast anymore. Because of ~~woke~~ vegans
  ::: spoiler we love our vegan comrades!
  
  May as well cancel the revolution then because it'll hurt a lot of hogs.

I like how your suggestion reframes dunking in basketball terms

Unify the slop sources under the banner of the dredge tank

the people want c/slop

why not The_Skibidi_Toilet or The_Toilet, because all of the takes portrayed in it are shit

If the mods are gonna just direct people here. We're gonna request they fix their mistake. I don't know what the plan here was.

Okay a bit shorter list of names, trying to repost those in this thread and the other that I've seen get positive feedback^[By Positive feedback I mean either something got a lot of discussion or a good amount of upbears, which is completely arbitrary, but I tried not to be. I'd put points next to the thing, but since no thread is locked, there isn't really any way to make that definitive] + My own personal favourite
Animal themed
c/the_hog_pen
c/the_trough
c/the_skunk_tank
c/the_bear_pit
c/going_to_the_bear_maul
c/bear_maul
Shit and/or Trash
c/the_sceptic_tank
c/dredge_tank
c/shitposts
c/the_shit_court
c/the_toilet
c/skibidi_toilet
History and culture
c/the_ones_who_walk_away
c/pit
c/Barbara_Pit
c/Infowars
c/the_slam_court
c/the_slam_zone
Polis
c/point_and_laugh
c/the_dunk_court
c/the_think_tank
c/shit_liberals_say
c/the_burn_pit
c/the_burn_ward
Radio DJ
c/69.5KDRJ_the_dredge
c/dredge_report
c/the_bone_zone
c/heckling
Inside Jokes
c/citationsneeded
c/citations_needed
c/libidinal_pleasure
c/deeply_unserious
c/c/main
c/30_to_50_feral_hogs
- c/hog_out_or_log_out_and_i_am_all_out_of_logs pls
  
  Thank you <3

We need our fun little space to talk shit about reactionaries and bond over making fun of them. I like the Dunk Court and the Dunk Pit myself; I always thought the way we used dunking here had more to do with basketball so “the dunk tank” never clicked as the carnival game with its racist baggage in my mind. Mods stop being silly

throwing in my vote for "c/heckling"

The dunk court has a nice double meaning too in that we are bringing our subject before the court to be judged.

/c/deeplyunserious
/c/deeply_unserious
/c/unserious

putting my 2 cents in for the hog themed ones

I'm in, gonna go submit a mod... umm... whatever it's called when you ask to be a mod.
- mod sub
  sub mod
  top mod
  
  ugh. computer-toucher brain is happening to me; for a second I thought I was looking at a template for my sorting algorithms
  
  I'm still working on it my brain broke down so I need to go shove food in to it until it does words good again.

Why not the dunk pit?
f we put those that we wish to dunk on in a lower area it will be easier for our shorter comrades to reach the rim for a dunk. The pit also allows for easier clean up.