Per the discussion in these two posts:
https://hexbear.net/post/6569239
https://hexbear.net/comment/6630485
As mod on that (gossip) comm I agree. To be honest, I also think it’s unnecessary to have two separate dunking comms based on whether someone is a public figure or a random person. A lot of times that distinction can be quite blurry, and I don’t blame people for choosing to post in Slop instead, as that is the more active comm.
Reunite El Chisme and Slop to a single comm, and remove slop’s rule #8. “Do not post public figures, these should be posted to c/gossip”
Hey! You want to know a secret? It doesn’t make any sense. Want to know how I know? I’m the one who moved it. I actually meant to move it to c/gossip, but moved it to c/slop because I had at least two reports saying to move that post and somehow fucked the move.
By the time I caught the error the other post was past the 4 hour kill zone for threads getting ranked higher in the feed.
You know what else I think? It wouldn’t have been correct to put it on c/gossip either. Moving a sexual assault story into GOSIP? There were several comments when I saw the reports saying it should be in gossip.
One thing I’ll say is that this whole site is a dunk site. If the comm is only about dunking then it might as well be c/main at that point. You’re right in that regard. It should be more focused and not on dunking because that’s a given.
Instead of c/slop and c/gossip we need a pop culture or snark comm and a brigading comm for all the shit takes made by drones on bsky and reddit. But what we really need are mods who are invested in the comms. A community is nothing without a mod willing to curate it. Otherwise you get slop in my gossip and I get gossip in your slop.
What ever comes after this feed back should be helmed by those who want to enforce and curate the comms. If you’re taking it on because you have the time and that’s it, I don’t know if that’s going to be effective enough.