Hey folks -

The seemingly never-ending flood of Musk/Twitter news and commentary is getting to some of our users (and some of the mods, too), so we’ve decided to create a general Megathread for all things related to Elon Musk and X/Twitter.

This thread will be a general Musk catch-all, so we’re including news about Musk acting the fool as related to any of his companies (SpaceX, Tesla, Boring). News about those companies that don’t involve Elon can be posted outside this thread.

  • hoodatninja@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    My guess is some of them simply don’t like people saying bad things about musk and just want to stifle discussion.

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      1 year ago

      I’m pretty sure most of the people running Beehaw are more than happy with people saying bad things about Musk. But it does get a little spammy, it’s honestly not all that interesting after a while?

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        1 year ago

        I get that but all this solution does is effectively ban any discussions of Musk, Tesla, SpaceX, or Twitter.

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            1 year ago

            Within 5 days the megathread will have 1 to 0 comments a day. And that’s a generous estimate. You know this.

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                Because lemmy, like Reddit, is not conducive to the concept of a megathread. It’s the format that’s the problem, not the contents. You expect people to constantly stop what they’re doing and deliberately navigate to an old megathread and then sort through all the comments/conversations happening with days - weeks even - of gaps between them? Nobody does that.

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                  Maybe, but Lemmy has sorting options that Reddit didn’t, like Active and New Comments, so maybe we need to reevaluate megathreads for Lemmy

                  • hoodatninja@kbin.social
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                    There’s nothing to evaluate. Megathreads were designed to kill topics on Reddit (unless it was a MAJOR, developing, current event) and they do the same here. You’re the first person to comment at all in this thread in over a month.

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              Most of the Musk and Twitter posts don’t even have many comments as it is anyway. And when they do it’s people saying the same thing over and over in multiple splintered comment sections.

              Besides, I don’t think lemmy is that way for megathreads yet like reddit can be. Partly because the userbase is smaller and more engaged, and partly because “active” sort exists.

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                People are treating this platform exactly like reddit because the churn of posts is exactly the same. You participate in the first hours or you miss it entirely.

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        So the solution is to all but ban any discussion of him or his companies, all of which are pretty important topics, particularly in US tech news?

        I can’t stand the dude, he’s garbage. I wish he’d fade out of the limelight and let smart people take his companies forward. But to functionally ban any discussions because he’s too present is a big over-correction.

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          I don’t agree with it, I’d prefer people use filters (most clients seem to support them).

        • prd@beehaw.org
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          Or people could go on the other hundreds of websites that exist and talk about him there?

          • hoodatninja@kbin.social
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            Well the next time a community bans a topic you think should be allowed you make sure to remember this comment lol

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        There is already a system for users to provide feedback on what articles they do or don’t want to see.

        • russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net
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          I’m not here to weigh in on the megathread debate as a whole, but assuming you’re referring to upvotes and downvotes, Beehaw disables the latter.

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          I agree, and think megathreads should only be used when the scope is limited to prevent the same story from being posted multiple times

    • mrmanager@lemmy.today
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      I’ve noticed that there are tons of people who tries to tell others what to talk about, even what words they should use. What’s going on… :)