Paul Reitter’s recent translation is really good! I think it’s a much more approachable translation for modern readers, and it’s the only translation in English that’s based on that last (4th) German edition of the book.

Having said that, my personal copy of Capital is from 1906 with some beautifully penciled marginalia from the comrade who originally owned it, and I can’t bring myself to replace it or justify buying yet another copy just to loan out or reference corrections that were already penciled in to my copy in the margins.

The whole class has been ignoring the homework? It was all in the syllabus, and I kept reminding you to do the reading!

You all know the final isn’t being graded on a curve, right? It’s covering all of the material from the whole year.

Hey, please put a CW on jokes about this. Thanks!

Please put a CW on this.

Hey, you’ve got it almost exactly! My goals in supporting the name gossip were to reclaim the term and to help offer a little push to users who need to self-crit on their discomfort with gossiping.

I’m not sure that gossiping should continue to be stereotyped as feminine. Everyone gossips. We were all already doing it in the tanks!

Yes! Please continue to dunk on people in c/gossip. These two words describe the same activities!

Please feel free to message the mods of these communities to give your suggestion!

I think your most recent formulation of the intended content of the new comms works well and should be pinned somewhere more prominent than in Nth level replies.

OH MY GOSH! I just knew I was missing something when I made the post, but I couldn’t figure it out. Sorry, been really scrambling lately to make this right, and I need to pace myself a little so mistakes like this don’t happen! Ok, back to the start of this comment, and then I’ll go add the description of the communities to the main post

But aren’t those two reasons contradictory?

Multiple different people had different motivations for endorsing the proposal.

honestly just seems from the outside like “gossip” was chosen because the mods felt that tank posts about celebs were becoming frivolous rage bait, and wanted to give a dismissive label to that kind of content, didn’t foresee the misogyny issue, and are now taking the reclamation line because they refuse to admit they were wrong.

As one of the women who both endorsed and approved the proposal, my support was based on reclamation. Reclamation of the word gossip is very well-supported in even mainstream feminist circles to the point that I honestly thought it was common knowledge. Gossip has been badly maligned by patriarchy, but we have taken the word back because it’s important. I wanted to create a more positive and fun vibe that would be less alienating insular in order to bring more leftist women and queer people to the site. A good example of the energy I’m hoping to give a leftist perspective on Hexbear can be viewed on r/fauxmoi, a gossip space on Reddit where I’ve seen some surprisingly good takes and even occasional leftist analysis. My secondary intention was that hexbears with unexamined biases and internalized misogyny might examine these, around the word gossip itself, perception of gossip as an inherently feminine activity, and the acknowledgement that dunking on Elon in the_dunk_tank is the same activity as celebrity gossip.

Poor communication of reasons behind decisions

Seemingly capricious, arbitrary, and impulsive mod actions

I’m really sorry about these. If I could undo them, I would. I suddenly needed to take a mental health break from site administration due to some personal life events last week, so I wasn’t able to be the one communicate our changes. I had to come back early from that break to help communicate this better after it went poorly. I’m sorry I wasn’t here communicating to you all.

TC69 definitely shouldn’t have been “put into the driver’s seat of a moving car,” so to speak. She should have come back as a user or honorary admin without moderation tasks for a while to get reacclimated to the changes between when she left and now. Alaskaball’s bit of fighting with their own account is really funny in a vacuum, but it was very poorly timed. They should have made it clear they were doing a bit instead of leaving everyone (including other admins) unaware and horrified, especially considering the state of the admin threads at that point.

The perception that admins/mods want to impose changes to site culture based on personal preference and not the needs/wants of the user base.

The mods and admins have always been in charge of steering the direction of the site. Current motivations are to reduce some of the negativity and toxicity on the site and to become a more inclusive and comfy space for women, people of color and ethnic minorities, and queer people.

I’m gonna go add the explanation of the comms to the post. Thanks again for the reminder!

c/counterpropaganda is no longer being considered as the renames replacement for the dredge_tank.

If people want to continue to post in that comm, they’re more than welcome to do so. If everyone chooses not to use that community, no big deal.

The_Dunk_Tank already had rule 8, that the posted screenshots need to be posts from a public figure, not an anonymous social media user.

If a reactionary screed was posted by Elon Musk, goes in c/gossip. If mike247391637 posted it to Reddit, it goes in c/slop.

If the post is from a twitch streamer, it should be in c/gossip. If it’s a YouTube comment from an account with 7 subscribers and no videos, it’s in c/slop.

Chisme translated literally from Spanish is “gossip.”

In context, it’s often used in a way that’s more jocular than the literal translation. “Shooting the breeze,” “throwing the bull,” or “talking shit” are some expressions with the same meaning.

c/slop is for talking about screenshots of anonymous reactionary posts on other social media sites. It’s replacing c/dredge_tank.

c/gossip is for basically the same thing, but with social media posts or news articles about public figures like politicians, streamers, authors, journalists, celebrities, billionaires, etc. It’s replacing c/the_dunk_tank.

I’m really excited for when next UI is ready to become the default UI. Can I request that infinite scroll never gets added? The idea of doomscrolling on Hexbear with no end sounds really bad.

Vote below for c/tanks, for all your self-propelled artillery needs.

yes

no

maybe

I’m actually still in line. How’s it looking, is Bernie winning?

It’s

Changing the display name on c/slop every week to different pig slop ingredients.

Expired dairy products & canola meal

Millet, bugs, & defective skittles

Corn.

Yeah, sorry, this one is on you actually. (joking) It’s like when people go for runs so Kissinger or Feinstein can lose their plot immortality.

The lathe is so tired of decades where weeks happen that it just keeps handing us struggle sessions in the hopes that we’ll all take a break and start the revolution. \

We’re not particularly worried about people being horny, outside of the fact that there could be children using the site. Plenty of people have checked the “yeah I’m tooootally 18” button and started scrolling through far hornier websites, but I think we’ve generally all settled into a good place on this. It’s pretty rare that there’s something even worthy of a report, and it’s almost always some wrecker hog with a 5 minute old fediverse account begging for attention.

Basically, don’t worry about hornyposting. Like 99% of all the posting on this site, it’s great and everyone on the site just wants to see more fun posts and keep riffing together, including the mods and admins! Realistically, it’s probably less than 1% of posting that’s needing correction, and trying to just “tweak” it out of existence clearly isn’t working.

I’m prepping to make a post to explain in more precise detail soon, but I’m genuinely nervous about how willing to engage most users are right now. Many people are justifiably upset, and I’m struggling with threading the needle between helping alleviate some of the tension and letting everyone have enough time to breathe before re-engaging to mend the rift and start fixing some of the site issues that made this the powder keg it turned out to be.

Thank you!

Yeah. Maybe we could have a wall of fame where all of the collected MOTDs (oh god, did I just age myself?) can be seen, but then only show short and sweet ones at the top of the page? Just spitballin’ here, really. I definitely think everything should be preserved if changes do get made.