The zombie apocalypse starts when the bottom chamber fills up.

API bullremoved refugee here. Y’all are stuck with me.

Sorry.

I just figured blocking the 500 or so furry communities was starting to pay off.

Would there be a way to make a new community that acts as a kind of graveyard for content from deleted communities?

XYZ times out and gets auto deleted; all of its threads move to the graveyard. Disallow new threads in that community except by transfer from a deleted community; but allow new comments within those so that they still have potential to generate content from folks who landed there from a search.

Clean up derelict communities without actually losing anything - win win.

‘point chasing’ e.g. karma farmers on reddit is removeding stupid, but I find the metric useful on an individual post. I think of them like an online extension of a facial expression: if I read a post attempting to explain something, and it’s got way more downvotes than up, the kinda tells me the poster is full of removed, which is especially useful in threads where I don’t know enough about the topic to actually identify the bullremoved myself. Like a flat-earther trying to give a lecture to an auditorium of booing geological scientists - my clueless medic ass is going to be gauging the audience as much as the speaker.

Or, say I post some joke: if it gets a lot more upvotes than down, that tells me other folks folks got a kick out of it.

It’s just another tool to communicate - and communication is hamstrung right out the gate in a predominately typed medium, so I’ll take the crutch.

I’ve always thought, of all the options to warn us that clicking will put titties on our screen, that “not safe for work” was a bad choice.

Like, what if your work doesn’t care about titties? What about the tons of other times you wouldn’t want those to pop into your screen without warning, like when you’re on public transit, or sitting next to grandma?

I’d vote for “LEWD” vs “GORE” or something more clear - users can decide for themselves when it is or isn’t safe.