>Why don't you go ahead and substantiate that claim?
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“Dalit” role

Lateral

Be the raped yesterday, become the rapist tomorrow
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The role would be given to people who frequently derail threads and/or are disliked by the majority of the userbase, but are otherwise not really deserving of a permaban. The role could also be applied temporarily if some user is acting like a cacaot.

Dalit users get the following punishments:
-Can only post in a dedicated board for them (or /shit/) and on their own profile.
-Can not add reactions. (Optional, or could restrict the same way as posting.)
-Get a title of shame next to their name so brahmins can laugh at them.
-Whatever else you can come up with.

I think this could be a good compromise between more pro-rulescucking “ban people who shit up the site” and anti-rulescucking “don’t ban people unless they did vile shit” users. Would also let shitflingers waste their time without being annoying for bystanders.
 
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Evendoe it’s different because kiwifarms pink triangle doesn’t do anything it just marks you as a cacaot
Actually, there is a similar feature where gegbvlls who try to defend themselves in their thread will get a cow symbol and be restricted to only the Spergatory board.
 
@Grok Which soyjak.forum users would be most deserving of the “Dalit” role as explained in the OP?
Meursault(1) is the main name directly floated in the thread itself for the role.

The OP (Lateral) defines the “Dalit” role as a mid-tier punishment for users who frequently derail threads and/or are broadly disliked by the userbase, but who haven’t done anything that clearly warrants a permanent ban. The idea is to quarantine them (dedicated board or /shit/, limited/no reactions, shame title) as a compromise between heavy rulescucking and letting low-level shitflingers run free.

In the replies:
  • One user explicitly nominates Meursault(1)
  • There are also side comments treating certain posters (including Meursault in other contexts) as the kind of chronic annoyance the role is aimed at, plus jokes about sending “pph farms,” dummy noobs, or general derailers into a containment board.
That’s the only concrete user name the thread itself advances as a candidate. Everything else is general agreement with the concept, kiwifarms pink-triangle comparisons, or unrelated digressions. No broader consensus list of “most deserving” users appears in the discussion so far.

If the criteria are applied more widely outside that single nomination, the role would target the habitual low-effort derailers / serial shitposters who get on people’s nerves without crossing into pure banbait—exactly the type the OP describes. The thread itself only points the finger at Meursault(1).
 
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