Hello users of hexbear after some discussion we mainly wanted to get your thoughts on the two pinned megathreads, one general and one news.
We've noticed that the news mega has basically become the general mega and the general mega has kinda slowed. Some are thinking that it might be time to tell people to stop posting random shit to the news mega because some appreciate the ever so slightly more serious, focused tone of the news mega
As of now there is not much of a standard for comments however we wanted to discuss with you regarding making a change. Where the news megathread is for discussion on current events and their history/implications for future while the general megathread is for commenting on one's life, interests, or for shit-posting.
This would result in the news megathread being more heavily moderated to actively remove comments that are a better fit for the general megathread or off topic.
Please comment with any thoughts, opinions, comments, questions, or concerns.
I mainly like the idea of clarifying the purpose of each thread by moderating them harder. I think one small issue with the general mega is that if it updates daily and the old ones get locked after 24 hours, there's sometimes a period of about half an hour where the pinned mega is locked and the new one isn't pinned yet. So it would be nice if the pinning + locking was automated and there was less daily mega downtime.
Also you get this odd window where you don't want to respond because the thread is about to be locked
The old mega is locked, the new mega struggles to be pinned, it is a time of monsters