I keep seeing posts with just “rule” in the title and I am pretty sure I missed something. Would anyone care to explain to this millennial boomer what I missed?
Near as I can tell, there are certain communities that have a “rule” that every time you browse that community, you must post something before you leave. This leads to a lot of low effort shitposting that I guess some people find fun but I just blocked those communities so my /All feed wasn’t cluttered.
How can I block communities through wefwef? I can’t seem to find an option.
Sorry, I don’t use wefwef. In the main browser, you can navigate to the community and the “block” button is right below the “subscribe” option.
Thank you! This worked!
I’m not sure it’s a feature yet. If you find a way please let me know
Ditto - it was my favorite feature on Apollo, and I’m sure I’d like it in wefwef.
I followed someone’s advice and spent some time on the main browser on my desktop and just blocked communities from there. Now they don’t show up on my wefwef feed. :)
its just a rule for the 196 community. New folks saw it in thier ALL feed then went and did it in any community. Its turned into a “thing” for a bit.
Honestly, Ill take this over not pooping for days.
uuumm not pooping for days?
It’s no longer the top post of all time for Lemmy!
https://lemmy.intai.tech/post/16733
thank you reddit flood #2 and welcome!
It’s no longer the top post of all time for Lemmy!
It was always destined to move to #2. After the three days had elapsed, of course.
slow clap…
oh wow. what did i just read…
Sweet Jesus… that’s gold
It’s the rule on the popular community /c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
It’s from this community: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/c/196 Read their only rule :)
as others have mentioned, its a quirk of the 196 community. 196 was one of the most active early communities to migrate from reddit, and as such a lot of people saw their posts in new.
what does 196 stand for?
Rule 196: before leaving this community, you must make a post.
ah ok. Thanks!
not really sure tbh
Are these posts from the 196 communities? If they are, it means “I am posting because I am following the rule”.
And the rule is: post before leaving.
So… They are posting before leaving.
You must include the word “rule” in every comment and post title on Lemmy to indicate that you accept the ToS :)
You are naughty lol
Sorry :D Couldn’t help but make that joke
