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Hey folks -

The seemingly never-ending flood of Musk/Twitter news and commentary is getting to some of our users (and some of the mods, too), so we've decided to create a general Megathread for all things related to Elon Musk and X/Twitter.

This thread will be a general Musk catch-all, so we're including news about Musk acting the fool as related to any of his companies (SpaceX, Tesla, Boring). News about those companies that don't involve Elon can be posted outside this thread.

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[-] GammaGames@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago

No, people are annoyed by the constant articles he generates.

[-] hoodatninja@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So the solution is to all but ban any discussion of him or his companies, all of which are pretty important topics, particularly in US tech news?

I can't stand the dude, he's garbage. I wish he'd fade out of the limelight and let smart people take his companies forward. But to functionally ban any discussions because he's too present is a big over-correction.

[-] GammaGames@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

I don’t agree with it, I’d prefer people use filters (most clients seem to support them).

[-] prd@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Or people could go on the other hundreds of websites that exist and talk about him there?

[-] hoodatninja@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

Well the next time a community bans a topic you think should be allowed you make sure to remember this comment lol

[-] QHC@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

There is already a system for users to provide feedback on what articles they do or don't want to see.

[-] russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net 5 points 1 year ago

I'm not here to weigh in on the megathread debate as a whole, but assuming you're referring to upvotes and downvotes, Beehaw disables the latter.

[-] GammaGames@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I agree, and think megathreads should only be used when the scope is limited to prevent the same story from being posted multiple times

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