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General Megathread for Elon Musk Nonsense and Twitter News (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 123 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I agree with others that the concept of "mega threads" are fundamentally broken and not something I'm interested in carrying over from Reddit.

This is a place for discussion where users vote to decide what rises or stays obscure. Let the system work how it is designed. If there are too many posts about a particular topic, it's either extremely relevant at the time or there are other moderation rules that could be considered to make sure low-effort posts are not dominating more substantial posts.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Tagging. Flair. Hashtags. Some kind of meta information.

Even in reddit posts can have flair. Lemmy have come to the edge of not having a filtering system, and need one asap. community specific tags or lemmy-wide tags or organic loose tagging, something is needed.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Tags with mods having tag powers feels like the best option long term. Any sorting system can be applied without worrying about compatibility.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here's the issue for this feature : https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/317

It doesn't exist yet.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, i found that. As it is pretty clear that official support for tagging is not there, causing mayhem here looks like the better idea.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

I agree. Even when the megathread included a list of posts relevant to a topic, whatever nuance was there gets lost in the grand comment thread. We really need a tagging and filtering system so that users can opt out of topics.

That way, it's not incumbent on mods to make a Megathread, or make a judgement call on whether there are too many posts on any one topic.