#syscourse brackets

[syscoursebrackets-2025-finished]

ROUND 4: Circle VS Art!

Who's the better syscourser?

Thecircularsystem

Artisticdysfunction

Voting ended onApr 14, 2025

Get your votes in for either @thecircularsystem or @artisticdysfunction!

Good luck and happy voting!

Reminder: These polls are completely subjective. However you define a "better" syscourser, that's how you should vote!

[circulars-singlet]

Hey friendly reminder:

Don’t tell people to kill themselves.

Don’t tell people to harm themselves in anyway.

This doesn’t not make you a good person.

This does not make anything better.

[prose-among-the-trees]

HEY GUYS GUESS WHAT @thecircularsystem JUST TOLD ME?!?!

Any grape lovers in the syscourse crowd thinking about voting for circular?? Well, wait just a darn minute!! Circular HATES grapes!!

This attached screenshot came straight from my direct messages with circular themself!

I know I promised not to tell, but syscoursers need to know the truth!!

[sophieinwonderland]

[sysmedsaresexist]

3 days left to vote for the syscourse brackets!

It's been neck to neck since it started and my anxiety is through the roof

[sysmon]

I made this as a comment for freezingcoldsystemtakes winning the syscourse brackets and figured it warrants its own post.

Guys the point of syscourse was never to have genuine discussions.

The original blog of the coiner of the term syscourse is still up and if you look at the oldest posts from 2016 it's like yeah, it is pretty much just focused on validity and who can use what term. The point of it about fakeclaiming and gatekeeping from the start, not actual debate.

There are better methods to go for and better ways for systems to talk about and share their experiences. The plural community on all sides has such an issue with people feeling too unsafe to share their experiences outside of fluff like microlabel coining or standing behind textbook definitions. We're in the same boat where we don't feel safe either because of how common syscourse is. Syscourse completely obscured decades of community history and completely set back self advocacy.

We use the syscourse tags for discourse topics, but when it comes to our actual posts talking about our experiences or genuine discussion posts, we don't tag those as syscourse because our experiences and others experiences shouldn't be up for debate by default. If anything some of us would tag it out of spite.

People don't say this type of stuff about ace discourse, kin discourse, and any other Tumblr discourse. Those similarly had massive negative impacts on the community. With syscourse there's a reason why so many systems hate the concept and hate syscoursers, and I think that's one of the reasons why freezingcoldsystemtakes won.

[the-astrophel-system]

wait wait wait

if sophie is anti-lies

does that mean they're the harbinger? the one sending all the messages to people in the brackets?

wow no shit it had no tws

[pcb-system]

It's a little funny seeing the syscourse brackets running again. I wonder who'll win this one ^_^