I’m going to make a megathread for the community to decide the name of our new slop trough.

Tbh that’s a pretty damn good one right there: /c/slop_trough. I’ll wait for that thread and enter it as a suggestion there is no one else does first.

But what if we ate the corn with a giant spoon

Can I be the site’s Brezhnev? I wanna have sexy eyebrows and make out with Erich Honecker.

Because it’s a trans version of the DDR (East Germany) flag, and the title is a play on the official name, Deutsche Demokratische Republik.

This is one of the best worst good bad posts I’ve ever seen.

Part of my point though was that you can absolutely still have this cathartic release. The new comms imo don’t eliminate that, they just steer it in a better direction.

They should put the gay chemicals in my energy drinks instead so I can become ultra mega gay

Gonna add my thoughts here on this here.

Yes, it’s true that an online forum isn’t really suitable for organizing a revolutionary vanguard, but this site does serve some very important purposes, two of which in particular relate to this change:

1. Mental health. Nobody here is a qualified mental health councilor either, but the discussions here can impact mental health in both positive and negative ways. I feel like mental health is a pretty critical roadblock for a lot of people on the left, myself included, so making this a priority is a good thing imo.

2. Education. I’ve learned a ton reading comments, watching or reading recommendations, and interacting with people here. I’m sure you all have as well, and I don’t think it should take much to convince most of you how important this is.

So with this in mind, I feel like this change aims to help with both of those points outlined. I totally get that a lot of the low-effort dunk posts are an attempt to blow off steam, but is it really the best way to do that? It seems to just lead to people getting more and more angry with no aim or resolution. Also, are these posts informative? Typically they are not. I don’t see steering the comms away from the present state towards something more useful as an attempt to stop people from blowing off steam, but rather an attempt to just make it a little more productive and healthy.

Hopefully that all isn’t just rambling and makes at least some sense. I’m slipping into eepy princess mode and not sure if my brain is functioning at normal capacity.