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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:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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- All posts must be showerthoughts
- The entire showerthought must be in the title
- 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
- Posts must be original/unique
- 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.
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My baseline is to upvote everyone who replies to me, cause it's neat that you're here, contributing to the fediverse.
I only downvote trolls and bad faith actors.
The vast majority of things I see, I neither upvote nor downvote. They have to be either extraordinarily good (exactly what I would have written or extraordinarily insightful) or extraordinarily bad (bad faith, blatant falsehood) for me to do that. When I disagree with something, I write a reply explaining why, or upvote one if there already is one, but I don't downvote what I merely disagree with.
I sort of agree, but I think any comment that facilitates further on-topic discussion is worth an upvote. It doesn't need to be exceptional in any way. In rare cases I've upvoted incorrect comments before to put more visibility on the correction in the response.
But 100% agree with not downvoting comments just because I disagree. Anyone I bother replying to, even if I vehemently disagree, I probably don't downvote — because they led to more conversation.
It's only when I see a comment so self-evidently idiotic or trolling, that I downvote and move on without further engagement.
I think upvoting incorrect comments is a bad thing; if incorrect comments have a net positive score, readers might get the impression that they are correct.
Readers can think for themselves
It's situational. My one upvote isn't usually going to have a big impact other than offset some of the downvotes. I would want the response to have higher upvotes than the incorrect comment and if I thought my vote was tipping that scale I wouldn't. But like most voting processes, I'm just one drop in the river and for the most part the river will go where it goes.
Re the upvotesTotally. Me too. IMO, the best thing you can do is reply intelligently. I don't care about for, against, up, down or any of that.
Re the downvotes. I'm thinking just ignoring them is most appropriate. Blocking even. You can't talk to everybody.