site banner
PaperclipPerfector  3d ago (text post)   1578 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for October 2, 2026

Be advised: this thread is not for serious in-depth discussion of weighty topics (we have a link for that), this thread is not for anything Culture War related. This thread is for Fun. You got jokes? Share 'em. You got silly questions? Ask 'em.

1
Top Bottom Old Controversial Comments
Jump in the discussion.

No email address required.

Ok but

Ok but this is the friday fun thread. Not the main culture war thread.

I apologize for my mistake above in addressing anything related to the object level concerns. My main complaint is meta that it is culture war and thus doesn't belong here.

Ok but

Ok but you mods run low-grade censorship on this topic in the culture war thread. For example it's been classified as a hobby horse belief which is in reality a special designation. When someone only posts about Finnish politics or what Trump did last week that's not hobbyhorse, but if I top level about this subject I run the risk of getting banned just because of the topic, if amadan the genius feels like it's a wee bit too much or not relevant enough to this week's news cycle. This is a low grade censorship strategy where the frequency of discussion is intentionally restricted in a way that is not true for most topics.

And on top of that, no Toakraka's jokes are not culture war. Culture war is the debate, not the joke about a boner or whatever.

If it is just one user repeatedly posting about the same topic, ya. And we do warn people when they approach the level of 'this is getting annoying' and our warnings usually come a post or two after people start reporting it for things like "cant x user just shut up about this topic already". By the time we are handing out bans for topic exhaustion plenty of users are beyond mildly annoyed. Mod team is definitely in agreement on the need for a ban, if not necessarily on the length.

We have only used this on two users that I can remember. One for jew posting, and one for the age of consent law stuff. If you were the one that got in trouble for constantly talking about age of consent law stuff, then I'm not really feeling sorry for you. This discussion is reminding me of exactly how annoying it is.

Jokes can definitely be culture war waging. They just aren't culture war debate or discussion. So yeah admittedly jokes and works of satire related to the culture war don't end up getting allowed anywhere on themotte. This is not limited to the topic of age of consent. If someone wanted to share jokes about how Biden/Trump is a buffoon then we really don't have a space for that. That seems fine to me, we never claimed to be a space for everything. Its possible that /r/drama makes a good companion website in that sense, since they are for jokes about anything but don't really seek to allow for serious discussion of anything.

If you were the one that got in trouble for constantly talking about age of consent law stuff, then I'm not really feeling sorry for you. This discussion is reminding me of exactly how annoying it is.

It wasn't me but I know that's the precedent. And yeah it must feel pretty annoying to be flatly wrong on a topic and have that be publicized, so I can see why you would want to censor discussion on it.

It was totally you. You're still here because we have a (sometimes irrational) willingness to let ten guilty ban evaders pedo-post than accidentally ban one innocent just-happened-to-stumble-onto-the-Motte-and-post-exactly-like-a-banned-pedo, but you've basically outed yourself, so I would suggest not going for the I-am-very-smart-I-totally-p0wned-you tactic to test how far you can go antagonizing the mods just because we've let you get away with it this long.

-signed, Amadan the genius

FYI (@cjet79) we've also applied the single-issue-obsessive rule to the Hock guy who posted weekly about how he was doomed to inceldom because he's not 6'2".

It was totally you.

I'm not sure of that. What was the username?

innocent just-happened-to-stumble-onto-the-Motte-and-post-exactly-like-a-banned-pedo

I am not a pedo, I think the age of consent should be 14 or 15 ... or maybe 18 but with a 10 year close in age clause ... idk. And I don't post about it much, I got banned for calling Trump a clown, I posted about a visual novel and got banned (an American one nonetheless), I posted about GPT 6. It's amazing how clouded some people's minds get when you tell them that 18 is an irrationally high age of consent.

It's amazing how clouded some people's minds get when you tell them that 18 is an irrationally high age of consent.

Nobody here is "mind clouded" by the idea of lowering the age of consent. People will agree or disagree that 18 is too high or 14 is too low, and the discussion is not prohibited (because it comes up regularly). You aren't dropping some unthinkable 70-degrees off-the-azimuth hot take that makes people freak out. You're just being predictable and annoying and you think you're being clever by inserting your obsessions into tangential posts that dance around without quite naming the thing you want to talk about. But do go on testing our forbearance.

What is this place?

This website is a place for people who want to move past shady thinking and test their ideas in a court of people who don't all share the same biases. Our goal is to optimize for light, not heat; this is a group effort, and all commentators are asked to do their part.

The weekly Culture War threads host the most controversial topics and are the most visible aspect of The Motte. However, many other topics are appropriate here. We encourage people to post anything related to science, politics, or philosophy; if in doubt, post!

Check out The Vault for an archive of old quality posts. You are encouraged to crosspost these elsewhere.


Why are you called The Motte?

A motte is a stone keep on a raised earthwork common in early medieval fortifications. More pertinently, it's an element in a rhetorical move called a "Motte-and-Bailey", originally identified by philosopher Nicholas Shackel. It describes the tendency in discourse for people to move from a controversial but high value claim to a defensible but less exciting one upon any resistance to the former. He likens this to the medieval fortification, where a desirable land (the bailey) is abandoned when in danger for the more easily defended motte. In Shackel's words, "The Motte represents the defensible but undesired propositions to which one retreats when hard pressed."

On The Motte, always attempt to remain inside your defensible territory, even if you are not being pressed.


New post guidelines

If you're posting something that isn't related to the culture war, we encourage you to post a thread for it. A submission statement is highly appreciated, but isn't necessary for text posts or links to largely-text posts such as blogs or news articles; if we're unsure of the value of your post, we might remove it until you add a submission statement. A submission statement is required for non-text sources (videos, podcasts, images).

Culture war posts go in the culture war thread; all links must either include a submission statement or significant commentary. Bare links without those will be removed.

If in doubt, please post it!


Rules


Recommended Posts And Communities

Recommended Realtime Chats