So, is this actually going to be enforced? I'm seeing non stop political posts, and it's making me hate this community
Showerthoughts
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
Rules
- 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.
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.
Apologies for the slow enforcement. The reported posts deemed in violation of community rules have now been addressed.
Community for political discussion: [email protected] , mods please feel free to post this anywhere if you'd like to avoid the political posts :)
Thank you! There are definitely a lot of politics communities on Lemmy, so I'm a huge fan of not having them leak into casual communities like this.
Damnit I missed my 2-minute window of opportunity!? /s :-P
Keep the rule permanant
Absolutely!
Thank you. This stuff really didn't fit this community.
Nice
Thank you
I appreciate this rule 🙌
Thank you. Brilliant, wonderful.
So tired of politics, there are communities for that stuff.
I'm considering setting up my own instance with an instance-wide ban on all political contents... It's annoying to deal with those political posts with super vague title so it bypasses the keyword filter.
Thank you for keeping the community booming!
lol ... it would be just funny for the mods to instead delete posts to just move them onto a c/rejectedpoliticalpostsfromshowerthoughts
keep up the work guys, the community looks great and we have you guys to thank for it.
I'm not sure that it's possible to move posts but that would be funny. Maybe c/powerthoughts
Interesting idea - move posts to an appropriate community. Or lol maybe just have one called DumpingGround so mods don't have to decide where they go. I like this idea.
/c/ToiletThoughts since they're getting flushed away.
That would be funny actually
I'm down