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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: 1

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
    • If you feel strongly that you want politics back, please volunteer as a mod.
  4. Posts must be original/unique
  5. Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct

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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i’m doing it because I want to make the fediverse more friendly place, in hopes of making it more welcoming for new users, and the nicer place in general. But I wonder how much is just less bots.

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[–] scottywh 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Comments weren't originally hidden due to downvotes on Reddit either... That's a relatively recent change and it sucks.

I don't really take issue with downvotes being used as a disagree button as a general rule but I can also see room to improve the system someho, too.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

As long as they never add any “punishment” for being downvotes then I guess it doesn’t matter. On Reddit downvotes we’re used to reinforce the echo chamber and to essentially silence differing opinions.

[–] Tag365 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wait, posts showed both upvote and downvote rates at one point and they didn't collapse by default if they got too many downvotes until recently?

[–] scottywh 1 points 2 years ago

They never showed both total up and downvotes individually like some Lemmy clients do.. Only the sum of the two.

But, they didn't used to collapse regardless of the sum going negative.