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I'm obviously old. what is this "rule" trend I'm seeing everywhere on Lemmy? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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As per the title. I'm obviously an old Bustard. Somebody please explain Rule to me.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ok. But what was r/195?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I saw someone else respond to this on an earlier thread that it was the dorm room number of the person who created it. The sub closed down and someone created a new one as 196. The rule has always been the same.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And why did it shut down and have to be replaced by r/196 ?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reusing a comment i made a few days ago, "It's based off r/195, which was a sub where the main rule was that you had to make 1 post before leaving, that sub closed down a few years ago, then r/196 was made to replace it. IIRC r/195 was originally for some peoples apartment, with the name just being their apartment number. Eventually other people joined in because of the rule and it snowballed from there."
To add onto that, r/195 shut down because the mods didn't feel like running it anymore as it became to much to handle.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The shut down was a bit more cryptic, after almost ten years they just said the "experiment is over" and shut down lol

Oh, just found this write-up from the original creator, apparently people just suck: https://i.redd.it/lgpet1ydu2v71.png