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.
we consistently have to remind people to put content warnings on their posts and that policy has been in place for at least two years
Instead of tags, maybe FB-style reacts would work better... some way that the community does the tagging, not the poster. Perhaps the issue is that the upvote is a single number without info about why it's upvoted (e.g. because it's funny or because it's informative)
The issue of people posting in the wrong thread is pretty much the same issue as not tagging their posts properly