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This reminds me of when I started a rewatch of King of the Hill when I was in graduate school for media analysis. It struck me that nearly every conflict in the first few seasons is based on insider/outsider identities. Sometimes Hank and other main characters learn and grow from it, but there are several times in which the Other is shouted down for just not getting it.

• Something with either Bobby or Luann gets the attention of the hippy dippy school counselor (characterized by really west coast or PNW sensibilities) who starts poking around in the home as a stand in for CPS trying to impose more modern approaches to child rearing: the outsider who gets shouted down at the end

• The new neighbor is Laotian and bickers with Hank until they find common ground: the outsider embraced

• Hank throws his back out and workers comp will only pay for yoga classes, to which Hank turns up his nose for being too different. Eventually his pain drives him to giving it a chance and he not only gets better but vehemently defends it afterward: the outsider embraced

• A Native American recurring character named John Redcorn is always received by Dale as just having such a mysterious and ancient mystical presence by virtue of being Native even though Dale and John Redcorn had the same kind of upbringing together: the outsider always held at arm's length

• ETA: I almost forgot my favorite story line! Hank Hill learns about growers co-ops promoting a natural food movement, which he associates with hippy dippy communism until he starts buying produce there and it's so fresh and flavorful, Peggy Hill delivers my favorite punchline of all time. Hank becomes a convert and sees this as a return to the land for country folk and starts volunteering at the co-op: the outsider embraced

There are so many ways that this theme of the big city (usually in the form of white characters) or the racial minority (usually representing the larger world) encroaching on their little suburb of Arlen, Texas, is the source of conflict. I don't think Mike Judge pulled that out of thin air.

Tagging @ernest in case instance owners don't have a larger community in which they share news like this with each other.

I'm glad you asked this question, especially as a federated user. It draws attention for me that not all of the instances may have coding for badges, so even though I had hoped we could one day employ badges here on kbin.social, I'm realizing that we can't make that a submission rule if federated users don't even have that option.

Also, it will depend on how you're accessing the magazine (which is what all kbin instances call communities), as to whether the sidebar is viewable. I can only think of describing how to access the sidebar if you're another kbin.social user accessing from mobile.

These are realistic barriers to future plans I had wanted to roll out, so thanks for asking this question and shedding light on it for me.

Tagging @Drusas if they'd like to weigh in.

In the past 2 weeks, I could have sworn I've seen the subscriber number creep up at least by 1000, but I was too busy at the time to start tracking any numbers. From the moderation side - and you can attest to this, Drusas - it has seemed that scrolling past the comments numbers, we aren't looking at <10 comments in any threads, but are looking at >40 comments for a good proportion of threads.

That kind of ballooning over just 2 weeks is exciting to see, but I also wanted to track the numbers to check whether it was my imagination or not that our activity has jumped considerably.

Looking at these stats was eye opening!

Thanks for asking @ptz. On kbin.social, there is an option in the link submissions form to add badges (similar to flair from reddit) or tags (hashtags to broadcast to the microblogging feature of the Fediverse). As of right now, the badges feature isn't working properly - you can type in the name of a badge (I think it's supposed to be a drop down menu, but is currently a text field) but it doesn't show up in the submission anywhere.

Our users were asked 2 weeks ago what rules they want in this space for moderation and multiple users expressed a desire to see labelling of some sort between news, opinion/editorialized, and analysis content. This is a unique community rule to the politics magazine on kbin.social based on solicited member comments.

We ask that submissions include a label in the title like "News: [Article title as it appears on external site]"

Hope this answers your question.

Hi @JonEFive! Thanks for submitting. We just recently added rules in our sidebar around submission titles that I encourage you to read. Thank you!

Hi @rdeets we just added official rules in the sidebar, and we have stipulations about adding a label (not a tag or badge) to all submission titles.

Please read carefully and incorporate into future submissions. Thank you.

Tags right now are not functional. Please add the label in the title, then use the article/source title as it appears on the external site.

Thank you

Hi @Col3814444. Please take note that we have posted the official submission rules you the side bar, and there are stipulations in there about titles.

Thank you kindly!

Sorry Arotrios - please don't change headlines and don't repost. Another user posted this 2 hours prior.

It's surprising the new flexibility these mental gymnasts are demonstrating.

8 years ago it was, "But he goes to church. He says he loves the bible, so yeah. He closed his eyes when we prayed for him and laid hands on him and he didn't burst into flame. You know, it's all a wash after you've asked for forgiveness."

Now it's "We are smart enough to elect a president, not a pastor."

Ya sure about that one, biscuit?

They're not even hiding the fact they think he's a piece of shit. He's just a piece of shit who falls in line with their view of social dominance and control.

This is a repost of an article from a few hours prior. Removed.