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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:

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
  4. Posts must be original/unique
  5. Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct and the TOS

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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Yes, I know, trolls etc. But such action turns any conversation into a bad joke. And anybody who trusts a moderator is a fool.

Find a better way.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

Find a better way

Mind explaining what would possibly be better? Having zero moderation isn't it. And if you say AI, I'mma smack you upside the head.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (2 children)

What would be better is a system where the sanctity of the conversation was respected. Where there was 100% assurance that everything you said got to me and everything I said got to you. No question at all. No man in the middle censoring and altering according to his whim.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

That's called a DM. Try it sometime.

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

People have been asking you for days with zero explanation: what the fuck happened to you here to make you go on this weird pseudo-crusade?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 hours ago

I literally just explained.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

its the same function in all forums that have mods. the problem is some doing it based on personal bias which is the wrong, and reddit allows too much leeway in what mods will ban or remove.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 day ago (7 children)

the thing youre missing about the fediverse.. if a community does not approve of a mod they can literally pick up and move their community to a new community or even a different instance altogether.

this has happened at least a few times.

moderation is a necessary management tool, and yes, it is certainly abused.. but the fediverse gives us the ability to tell mods to go fuck themselves.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"We don't need moderators!" shouts the Troll*, in the wrong community.

* either a troll or just an idiot, doesn't matter imo

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (10 children)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes, I know, trolls etc. But such action turns any conversation into a bad joke. And anybody who trusts a moderator is a fool.

Not just trolls - there’s much worse content out there, some of which can get you sent to jail in most (all?) jurisdictions.

And even ignoring that, many users like their communities to remain focused on a given topic. Moderation allows this to happen without requiring a vetting process prior to posting. Maybe you don’t want that, but most users do.

Find a better way.

Here’s an option: you can code a fork or client that automatically parses the modlog, finds comments and posts that have been removed, and makes them visible in your feed. You could even implement the ability to reply by hosting replies on a different instance or community.

For you and anyone who uses your fork, it’ll be as though they were never removed.

Do you have issues with the above approach?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)

A mod MAKES the community and makes the rules of that community.

Kinda like how you wouldn't want me to go to your and take a shit on the carpet.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This isn't a shower thought. Mods, please remove.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I'm a mod here. While it's not one of my favorites, it does follow the format pretty well. I try to use Rule 1 sparingly.

It's a bad look to shutdown critics. I think the votes and comments are doing a good job of bringing perspective to OP's opinion.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

Thanks for your reply. My post was meant as kind of a joke, but it's good to know the mods actually read through things.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I run [email protected] I don't remove shit unless u are clearly violating the rules its all available via the modlog.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Mods who power trip get reported to [email protected]

Not perfect, but that and public modlogs help

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

Does your handler know you're online?

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

You don't have to participate at all, you realize that right?

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

It's a discussion of principle.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

If you don't like it, go to Truth Social or X where they never delete any comments, apparently. You are a free man

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

I blocked all .ml communities so this problem no longer affects me

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

Manually? Or is there an easier way to mass block them?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

You can block entire instances. You should be able to find it in the settings in your Lemmy app. I know Tesseract and Voyager let you edit it. I think you can also filter by keywords.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Thanks! I use Voyager so I'll poke around in the settings.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Deny them engagement, let them have their echo chambers

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