TerribleHands [he/him]

It’s a term that’s clearly upsetting people here, for reasons that have been gone over again and again in these threads.

I feel like that’s the only thing that should matter. It doesn’t need to provide “more help than harm”; that’s some weird utilitarian logic. If it upsets people, change it. How is that hard? Genuinely don’t understand why you’re so bound to this name?

A dunk tank at a fair ground in the 21st century isn’t a violent racist thing, it’s a thing that has violent racism in its early history but is otherwise just an abstract neutral concept that can be perfectly innocent in modern contexts.

I’m not advocating for the return of the name on this site by any means; I think we, as leftists, should be aware of deeper implications of terms, and not use terms that can or do upset people even if in general society they are used without any malicious connotations or intentions. Can you seriously not see any parallel?

Just because “gossip” can be used in an offensive and condescending way, does not make it so.

Ironically, doesn’t this apply to “dunk tanks” too? It’s a concept that has racist origins but has for like seven decades been nothing but an innocent, non-racist fairground game.

The point is that people are upset by the term “gossip”, whether or not the intent is to be upsetting, in the same way that modern ‘dunk tanks’ aren’t intending to be racist or hold racist baggage.

Alternatively, let grown adults choose for themselves what they post and look out. As you’ve said, it’s incredibly easy to just unsubscribe from or block unwanted content. It’s also easy to just not click on things. Why make arbitrary rules where they’re not needed?

Cameron seems pretty good at alluding to real-world issues in these films. Avatar isn’t exactly subtle.

I’ve already not posted in c/gossip so I’m doing my part

No, he’s talking about the name beyond the gender issue. It doesn’t matter who proposed it, it’s just a bad name that doesn’t remotely apply to its intended content.

c/gossip should be about celebrity relationship drama or something, if it has to exist at all.

Can we have c/slop be a general place for dunkposting, like the old c/dunktank before the dunk-dredge schism, and let c/gossip just die a quiet death?

BRICS chicks debacle

A-Tier drama, forgot about that

Why’d she ever get let back in in the first place? As a user I don’t have a problem, but why was she given effectively top control after literally not being a member of this community for years?

can we tempban every american for like 1400 days so they can all cool off?

I’m etc

They’re an adult. They might need a break but it should be their decision and not the decision of some mod.

damn that ban reason is so patronising lmao

mods not beating the ‘being shit’ allegations

TC69 probably isn’t who you want to be invoking on the issue of silly arbitrary changes by admins against the wishes of the userbase…

People enjoy making fun of people that you’re not allowed to make fun of in c/gossip, clearly.

what we are merely doing is forbidding low-effort dunking on private people, which we think is toxic and boring

Then block the comm and pretend it doesn’t exist. Why do you have to ruin other people’s fun?

But also before the ban they were our first real “power-poster”, and a mod, and allegedly a collective of people under one account, which possibly explains how they posted so much.

The big turning point was when they made fun of “We love our trans comrades” posting, during the TC69 ultraviolence era. They caught a ban and then went of the deep end a bit with wrecker-alts.

A powerful poster

An ancient poster from a bygone era.