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(Discussion) Would people be interested in a "no text" rule? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by Martineskirt@lemmy.world to c/hmmm@lemmy.world

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I believe that banning text-focused posts would give the community more identity. The posts that have text in big part seem like content you'd encounter in any other meme/political community anyway. This is just a discussion post to see how the community feels about these. Thank you.

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[–] Martineskirt@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sounds acceptable. I think I'd want to go for 'no captions' and 'no social media screenshots' to let the picture speak for itself with no distractions.

Ideally I'd love no text in the picture at all but we don't have the population for this and It'd kill the community.

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 4 points 1 week ago

Yeah, that would be good.

The kind of thing I'm thinking of is a sign we have in at least one private parking lot that has the exact red octagon with white edge but instead of STOP it says SLOW DOWN. It is literally a STOP sign that says something else. That has text, but isn't a caption and only works because the context + words causes a double take.

I'd be ok without something like that and going full image only if that seems like a hard nuance to moderate.