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• NEW RULE: added on an appropriate day
  Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ to ⁨showerthoughts@lemmy.world⁩ | ⁨1⁩ ⁨comment⁩
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whether you've got big plans for your Sunday or are just going to relax, Putin could change your plans, end your life, kill all of your family, and incinerate everything you own.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This was reported for breaking rule 1,4,5.

  1. The votes seem to agree that it’s not a shower thought. I’m slow to remove a post for this rule, I would rather let the votes do the work.

  2. I’m not sure saying this about Putin is saying anything about any people group. You can be hugely supportive of people groups while thinking their leaders are responsible for, or capable of, horrible things. At various times nearly every country could be used as an example of this.

  3. I’m not sure what community rule it’s breaking. It’s not a very positive post but people should be free to be negative online if they that’s how they feel. Lord knows that many comment threads are negative. I may feel differently if the the majority of posts suddenly became negative.

  As always I’m open to feedback.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Germans decry influence of English as ‘idiot’s apostrophe’ gets official approval⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not always that simple…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Music was better when ugly people were allowed to make it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m certainly having trouble making sense of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A message on navigating life's uncertainty⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This post got reported.

  The reporters are correct, you should have the entire thought in the title, then use the body to go into detail.

  For example your title could have been “life is largely random circumstance, so relax”.

  Shower thoughts aren’t typically advice for other people, unless you take showers with other people to save water, but it’s nice advice and it embodies the positive community that the code of conduct is designed to encourage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does 11:19AM have to look so much like 5 till 4PM?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t follow

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"BeReal." FOSS alternative? Yes please!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or maybe we could have a rule like “Any post that’s greater than 12hrs old and has less than 30% approval gets removed” I like this because it gives voting more power for shaping the community and it’s objective.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"BeReal." FOSS alternative? Yes please!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  OP wants FOSS BeReal, it’s all there in the title. There is no rule against having a body to the post. I agree that I would be disappointed if showerthoughts was only people’s product ideas.

  If this type of post became commonplace we could make a rule trying to avoid spam. How would you word the rule? “No promotion of products or product concepts” that might work. Rules have side effects so I would want to look back through old posts to see if it would hurt quality posts.

  This post did get two reports. Reports are not super down votes, things need to break rules for me to pull them, I try to be objective. As always I’m open to discussion.

  I did giggle about commenter below that is sometimes old. Silver linings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NASA remotely reprogramming Voyager 1 also means that aliens can reprogram all of our satellites.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You have a lot of great things to offer this conversation, I’m not sure why all the aggression was needed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Identity politics and universal pseudonymity arose at the same time.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Several of your comments/posts are being reported. You can find the code of conduct here: mastodon.world/about

  There is nothing shocking in there just basic thing like no name calling. Which I suspect is why this comment was being reported. And is why I took down your other post.

  Text is very poor at communicating a lot of subtleties that you get in other forms of communication. So it’s helpful to expect the best intentions of others and maybe ask clarifying questions.

  If you look through other posts and comments you will find that people tend to be pretty chill, looking for a laugh or to make others laugh, and enjoying curious observations about life. People also get passionate about certain topics but I like how the code of conduct puts it “Criticize ideas, never people.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The ancient Roman fiscus Iudaicus is a fanum tax⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Were you browsing Wikipedia in the shower?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Now that ChatGPT is being trained using Reddit posts⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Per the community rules, try to keep the complete shower thought in the title.

  If you forget the rule, its their in the sidebar ;)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We live in a post scarcity information society and we still haven't moved on from capitalism.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This was reported for being hostile. Please keep your comments focused on the topic being discussed and do not attack the other people in the discussion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every star in the sky is interacting with you through gravity 🌌 We are all connected to the universe around us.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is an interesting perspective and could have resulted in interesting discussion. Aggression alone isn’t bad, but attacks on posters are bad.