Dull Men's Club
An unofficial chapter of the popular Dull Men's Club.
1. Relevant commentary on your own dull life. Posts should be about your own dull, lived experience. This is our most important rule. Direct questions, random thoughts, comment baiting, advice seeking, many uses of "discuss" rarely comply with this rule.
2. Original, Fresh, Meaningful Content.
3. Avoid repetitive topics.
4. This is not a search engine
Use a search engine, a tradesperson, Reddit, friends, a specialist Facebook group, apps, Wikipedia, an AI chat, a reverse image search etc. to answer simple questions or identify objects. Also see rule 1, “comment baiting”.
There are a number of content specific communities with subject matter experts who can help you.
Some other communities to consider before posting:
5. Keep it dull. If it puts us to sleep, it’s on the right track. Examples of likely not dull: jokes, gross stuff (including toes), politics, religion, royalty, illness or injury, killing things for fun, or promotional content. Feel free to post these elsewhere.
6. No hate speech, sexism, or bullying No sexism, hate speech, degrading or excessively foul language, or other harmful language. No othering or dehumanizing of anyone or negativity towards any gender identity.
7. Proofread before posting. Use good grammar and punctuation. Avoid useless phrases. Some examples: - starting a post with "So" - starting a post with pointless phrases, like "I hope this is allowed" or “this is my first post” Only share good quality, cropped images. Do not share screenshots of images; share the original image.
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I honestly can't tell if you're joking or not.
Using a neo-pronoun for 1, 2, and 3 person seems unnecessarily challenging. If you seriously think not understanding this non-standard use of language is transphobic I think you're hurting their cause more than helping.
If you're being sarcastic than your point is made very clear lol
@dragonfucker@lemmy.nz you reported my comment for not being dull???
I was being sarcastic, but that is the actual position of the Blahaj admin team.
I had read about that. That’s kind of wild that not understanding or asking can be considered transphobic. I’ve never seen it take the place of I or you. This is new to me…
Iloveyhebomb is lying to you lol. The admin has repeated multiple times that mistakes, not understanding, or asking questions are absolutely fine.
The actual issue is that people were using pronouns as a reason to bring harassment to the instance and so the admin asked people to not engage with suspected trolls and to report them if causing harm instead. Ilovethebomb and others were just sad there couldn’t be more harrassment and got reactionary about it.
No, what I said was accurate. If you don't do the neopronoun thing when referring to someone, and use they/them pronouns, they consider it misgendering them.
That is their stated policy, and they do enforce it.
what you say here is correct. what you said before is not.
I don’t want to get involved in drama I am not knowledgeable enough to comment anything. But thanks for confirming that the admins of that instance are reasonable that mistakes and questions are fine. I didn’t seek any harm by being confused lol
They are quite understanding with honest questions, but they absolutely do enforce the use of neopronouns, and consider your standard gender neutral pronouns to be misgendering someone who wants to be referred to as Drag.
It's all rather silly.
Absolutely agree! definitely agree its nice to avoid the drama but i hate to see people trash talk Ada (thats the admin she’s cool) with random lying like that lol
I don't think it will catch on, there's only one user who actually talks like that, and I'm reasonably confident they're a troll.
Based on their modlog I would agree.