I find these types of posts to not contain anything funny at all. It doesn’t become more fun because everyone is spamming it.

I really don’t get the fun. It just fills my feed up with garbage.

That’s all.

  • lIlIlIlIlIlIl
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    21 hours ago

    It popped up again to take heat off the tesseract noise, I’m absolutely convinced. It’s used as air cover to drown out topics they don’t like

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      21 hours ago

      Isn’t it ironic that people both tell me to just juse post filters AND explain bean memes as something to drown out topics they don’t like?

      Why don’t the bean crowd just filter out the tesseract controversy with some simple keywords then?

      Feels like double standards.

      I agree filters is the right response to content you aren’t interested in seeing. And I have set up these filters now.

      I do NOT like the sentiment of posting garbage to “drown out topics you don’t like”. That sounds childish, spammy amd malicious.

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        18 hours ago

        “just filter it” means the user doesn’t want to see it

        Drowning with noise posts prohibits OTHERS from seeing it

        It all makes sense if you consider the shitweasels involved

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        19 hours ago

        I have no real answers, but it could be that shitposting is something some use to decompress a situation. Like when two family members are heating up a pointless holiday argument and it starts to get awkward for those around them, so people make dumb jokes in an attempt to diffuse the situation. Then others may “change the topic” filling any dead air with even nonsense or something people don’t overtly care about but it helps avoid the actual issue at hand. Which could assist those family members taking a step back and cooling off or maybe it allows them to not address the underlying issue and there will be underlying resentment in the relationship for a few decades.

        Another alternative that the person above you may have meant, is that people don’t want this space to die because some bad actors. If the main focus is that bad act, then people are more likely to drift away…

        One can only guess

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          4 hours ago

          See that’s why I sit at the kids table where we make fun of the people arguing

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          19 hours ago

          I get both arguments, but the first one would be like saying

          "I don’t tvink this is a fun read so I’m going to make everyone else watch low quality “memes”.

          More or less making a desicion for others that they shouldn’t wamt to see this either by spamming.

          The other argument would be a in good faith, and I get it. Ypu don’t want this space to die. But this wasn’t a threat to the space, it was an opportunity of community self-governance. One bad actor did bad stuff and people called them out for it. That actually makes the community stronger and more transparent.

          Bad news isn’t fun, but not knowing what’s going on at all would be worse.

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            18 hours ago

            I agree, it’s best people know this happened with this and people are aware what’s going on.