Bit idea: Post at least twice in every thread (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago by Infamousblt@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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The Libs of Lemmy love to complain about how Hexbear is both strong and weak, dying and yet still one of the top instances by post count. You know they look at Hexbear and are angry with our power but are powerless to stop it.

So it would be a funny bit to massively inflate our post count.

Okay don't go spam every thread that's probably not appropriate but instead post at least twice in this one and let's pump those posting numbers up.

If you need some ideas for things to post, try:

Your favorite emoji
A funny thing you saw this week
A word you like
A cool animal fact
Or something else

This reads like the Bit Idea Megathread.

Anyway that's the bit

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[-] raven@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's a strange notion that double posting is considered poor form in the first place. What if I have two unrelated things to say? Doesn't it make more sense to split those ideas into two posts?

Honestly who would care if I replied to a post 11 times with 11 different unrelated ideas?
Parallel, asyncronous communication is a thing to be embraced, and I would go so far as to say that we should just have massive mega posts years old and thousands of comments long about common topics instead of starting new ones whenever we have something new to add.

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

It's a holdover from a time when it was poor form to bump things to the top in a forum.

Dumbass rules and etiquette is probably a good portion of why forums died actually. I think the most obvious example of this was telling people to "search" instead of just answering the question.

[-] raven@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

If you want to start up an old struggle session you can do so in the original struggle session thread, standing on the bodies of the comrades who have been banned before you, 1423 comments deep in one particular hyper specific example of a time when "rock stacking" was actually good for the environment (rock stacking having been defined here to mean the creation of barrier walls to prevent erosion caused by modern farming techniques)

I could get so fucking pedantic please let me have this sicko-wistful

[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

I think this is going to be my next bit idea. "Find a struggle session that died but hasn't been locked and start it up again in the original thread."

Mods are going to start banning my bit ideas party-sicko