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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

Rules

  1. All posts must be showerthoughts
  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
  3. No politics
    • If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
    • A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
  4. Posts must be original/unique
  5. Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct and the TOS

If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.

Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report, the message goes away and you never worry about it.

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But this is apparently not desirable, as it would take away the operators' power to make arbitrary decisions...

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[–] one_old_coder@piefed.social 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

There are tags on Piefed it seems. But it's always been a mess, and ends up with people putting a lot of tags on their own posts to spam. Moderation is good enough on Lemmy. I don't think you need to complicate things further.

[–] DandomRude@lemmy.world 0 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

How absurd is it that /c/unpopularopinion has "no politics" as its first community rule - as do most of the Lemmy communities with the widest reach? This achieves nothing but opening the floodgates to arbitrary censorship. And why is that? For the simple reason that people would rather be entertained...

[–] one_old_coder@piefed.social 5 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Some people don't want to be bother by politics and/or US-centered stories. On every forum it was allowed, users were flooded with those topics. You can see !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world if you want that (it's in the side bar).

[–] DandomRude@lemmy.world -3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

You can already hide such posts without any problem by excluding the relevant terms. As this post here suggests, it should also not be too difficult technically to let users decide which content they want to hide using tags.

However, hiding posts in the most popular communities for everyone by moderators is nothing less than plain censorship - and you even like that, because you can't be bothered with reality...

[–] one_old_coder@piefed.social 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

by excluding the relevant terms

Terms like US, politics, Trump, Clinton, Army, Militia, Vance, Bondi, Kinder eggs, Oklahoma, etc. It seems painful. As I said, tags are a PITA and create spam.

you even like that, because you can’t be bothered with reality

Go back to reddit please.

[–] DandomRude@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

Go back to reddit please.

I've been here for more than two and a half years, trying to contribute something because I thought it was important. I'm starting to think more and more that it was a wasted effort. Thank you for pointing that out so clearly once again.