this post was submitted on 23 Jan 2025
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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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They might also be meaningless internet points. Who knows.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Who will be the final boss in this battle?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm not following you. I see your previous comment was in a thread about video game bosses though?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It’s ok, it was a bad and unrelated joke.

I was just suggesting that the Lemmy system was better than the Reddit system, but that there might be a better system than this.

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

Lol that's an interesting thought. I wonder what it would be like if instead of simply giving upvotes and downvotes, you could rate every comment/post on a scale of 1-10 or something. It probably wouldn't work at all, but maybe there is some kind of system out there that would work better in the future.

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

Somewhere in these comments someone has said that it’s used to discriminate …ie “this account doesn’t have a very high karma” or not being allowed to comment in a sub cause you don’t a high enough karma.

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

Yes that is true on reddit. Not on Lemmy though afaik

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