the grad is being color revolution'd
this post was submitted on 15 Feb 2025
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Look we tried that on GZD, and it did not go anywhere, everyone uses the dicussion thread or makes a new post
we did, although I believe we never pinned the geopolitical discussion threads to the instance, just the community
And disabled and trans megathreads, at least while we wait for hexbear to get sorted?
Indeed, D.A.S, actually, I was inspired by your previous post.
I'm not so sure. They veer everywhere on Hexbear, they're often people just chatting about random things and it's a pain to scroll through all the inane chatter and jokes to get to actual discussion. Two threads on the same news item might be 30 seconds of scrolling apart. There isn't really structured discussion like we get on individual posts that can deeply engage with an idea and spawn a number of replies and thoughtful back and forths and be easily found.
If we did I think we'd need strict rules on how they're structured. E.g. whoever posts them has to include 3-5 top news/analysis stories, snippets/synopsis and links to them with neat formatting in the post itself to spur discussion on the topics of the day. Perhaps an ability for mods or the poster to add additional items if they come up as one downside to megathreads is if they're posted in the first half of the day and then in the second half of the day something important happens but not big enough for its own megathread then it kind of gets left out in the cold in its own thread or for the next day when it may not be as topical.
I’m not so sure. They veer everywhere on Hexbear, they’re often people just chatting about random things and it’s a pain to scroll through all the inane chatter and jokes to get to actual discussion
I don't think they're much chatter (most of these inane chatter and jokes are just one comment replies, in my experience), especially later on, prolly when it closes up a bit, and I do see as much discussion as I see replies.
Two threads on the same news item might be 30 seconds of scrolling apart. There isn’t really structured discussion like we get on individual posts that can deeply engage with an idea and spawn a number of replies and thoughtful back and forths and be easily found.
Aye, fair enough... maybe I haven't thought this through, especially with the effort of organizing it.
yes I love the newmega and think one on grad would be nice