I appreciate your work. (sincerely)
glimse@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I downvote a lot of posts here because I don’t think they’re questions appropriate for this community. They’re either loaded questions, opinions, obvious bait, or asklemmy material.
If this community is supposed to be the Lemmy version of r/nostupidquestions, the questions should be things that you think should know but don’t. Things that might make you feel stupid asking.
A good question for this sub is “How often do I actually have to wash a hoodie?”
A bad question is “Why is [company] doing [something anti consumer]”
We get a LOT more of the latter here.
Styxia@lemmy.world 4 months ago
glimse@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I just wish it did anything lol
bustrpoindextr@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Okay but like, how often do I actually have to wash a hoodie?
OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 4 months ago
You should wash your hoodies (and jeans) when they are soiled, sweaty, or smelly; if they’ve been wet; if they have any sort of chemical on them.
Your situation will vary, and thus you must rely on your own judgement.
Silentiea@lemm.ee 4 months ago
And basically always if someone you meet says you need to wash it.
OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Well yeah, if you go around people. If you don’t know how to wash a hoodie, you’re probably not a social butterfly. I do know how to wash a hoodie and I’m not a social butterfly, so I can’t imagine what it’s like not knowing and still trying to speak to someone.
glimse@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I don’t know!!! Someone should pose the question in a post
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Sometimes.
Acamon@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Ah, I wasn’t familiar with the subreddit, so I was just taking it as a free for all, so no question is out of place. Especially as lemmy is smaller, and lacks enough traffic in niche communities, it makes sense to have a bigger community for just answering whatever comes to mind.
But obviously there’s issues with that, if the community was swamped it would make sense to have a stricter guideline.
glimse@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I mean if this is gonna be a catch-all for every question ever, why do we need it when asklemmy exists?
Guidelines make communities unique. And why did we remake the sub if we weren’t going to continue the spirit of it?
Acamon@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Totally. I was just being descriptive not prescriptive. I wasn’t aware of the sub, and thought this was a fun lemmy thing, particularly suited to its smaller user base. And I’ve always associated asklemmy / askreddit with asking people’s opinions, wanting a broad range of answers.
Looking at the guidelines, there doesn’t seem to be any guidance about what kinds of questions beyond “ask away”. The rules are mostly about no trolling, NSFW, etc. So, my comment was giving the perspective of someone who didn’t associate the community with a reddit thing, and the message it’s giving off is “ask any question” and that seemed cool to me. But I have no problem at all with it being more specific than that, having explicit guidelines or just a culture of up/down certain types of questions. Community guidelines and specialisation are good! But with lemmy smaller user base more broad communities can also be good!
I think most people don’t like to see obviously leading/rhetorical questions, but I’m (personally) happy with seeing more abstract, whimsical, or interesting questions than just "stuff you feel like you should know but don’t ". Looking at the top posts in the community, there are some “what is wage theft/a sovereign citizens/etc” which seem to be the classic “everyone else seems to know something I don’t” situation. Then there’s a bunch of fediverse, corporation and tech industry opinion questions, which definitely do seem more like an asklemmy thing. But “can you live on pickles?” or “would nuclear weapons be useful in a space battle” are the kinda questions I think are fun and I generally enjoy reading the responses and learn something, but they’re not “stuffy you should be expected to know” (well, maybe the pickles answer is pretty obvious, but the reasoning isn’t necessarily…)
eronth@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The asklemmy ones are the annoying ones. It’s less a question and more a conversation starter
glimse@lemmy.world 4 months ago
There’s one up now that’s basically “can someone recommend some songs to me?”
fellowmortal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
I thought hard about whether to put it on ask lemmy, but didn’t want to look stupid. There’s literally no advice on what you can ask here.
FontMasterFlex@lemmy.world 4 months ago
perhaps you need a refresher… NO. STUPID. QUESTIONS.
glimse@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Perhaps you completely missed the point if that’s what you choose to reply with
theedqueen@lemmy.world 4 months ago
A similar problem would happen on r/ELI5 that drove me nuts. Originally the kinds of questions you were supposed to ask were things like “the origins of the Gulf war” or “the rules on how to play poker”. But instead there were too many questions that were like “what’s going on in my stomach when it growls”.
glimse@lemmy.world 4 months ago
“Can someone explain [complicated geopolitical conflict] to me like I’m 5?” were my least favorite. At least pretend you tried to get the answer yourself
echodot@feddit.uk 4 months ago
There should be a rule where someone actually has to explain it as if they were explaining it to a 5-year-old.
glimse@lemmy.world 4 months ago
That’s how the sub started. Answers were broken down into the most basic of analogies, it was great. But like most big subs, the rules got lax and it lost what made it special.
In my opinion, stricter posting rules make for a better community…as long as they’re not arbitrary.
hamFoilHat@lemmy.world 4 months ago
That might not be the best counter example. Now I’m interested in why exactly my stomach growls, and would probably need it explained in simple terms since I’m not a doctor.