Hey all, hope this post finds you well. I know the last few days have been upsetting and confusing, but I want your feedback on something that's been discussed by quite a number of users: removing the community c/fakenews. Given the poor communication that's been such a problem lately, I'm calling a vote.
Let's just make this super simple:
Please vote by way of upbearing the emojis pinned below.
Keep c/fakenews
Remove c/fakenews
Votes will be counted 48 hours after this post was made.
Edit: Sorry, I jumped the gun on this one, gang. Gonna give the previous struggle session more breathing room before we litigate anything else, okay?
We'll be back later this week to discuss further.
Can people just take a fucking week off and STOP MESSING WITH THE SITE PLEASE
Like why do we need to have this vote right at this moment? Can we push this off for a bit?
What the fuck.
I have badposting and fakenews blocked but like can we just not do this right now. I don't want to have another big fight.
fakenews is one of the only comms i have blocked lol. but since i have it blocked, i don't mind others who do enjoy it.
c/fakenews should announce its removal and be removed based on whether people think they’re serious or not
frankly i understand banning beluga if they were the one creating the alts, which i have a hard time believing, but i really dislike the concept of going for a layup like deleting fakenews to regain some kind of credibility with the userbase. it's lateral to the point, does nothing to solve the actual issues being discussed, and shutters a comm that was harmless fun for a majority of the people contributing content to it. i spent probably 2 or 3 hours total writing content, creating actual satire, and to see it unceremoniously swept away as a peacekeeping move honestly makes me upset and think that everyone on a higher level has absolutely no idea what they can actually do to fix the situation
- I don't think there is any need. Users can block the comm if they want.
I feel the best case for a c/fakenews post is a mildly humorous gotcha. The worst case is causing an anxiety episode for a comrade. The median is just an unfunny post clogging up the timeline. The good posts that comes from c/fakenews can still stick around, just post in c/chapotraphouse and link to a rickroll or something.
I don’t see how this fixes the issue you have stated.
Wouldn’t it cause more anxiety to have the post in a more “legit” comm with posts that are actually “real”?
What’s the rationale for removing it?
That people see it and can think it’s real news?? It has fakenews next to all the postsI do too and then I see it is from the fake news comm.
kind of the mechanics of the entire bit.
Mostly neutral. The bits are mostly lame. But a lot of ND comrades really don't like it so
Fakenews still exists?
because if I don't notice it's here, I won't notice it's gone.
