Ask Lemmy is a place to ask thought provoking questions. The mods have been lenient with some of the recent posts on the basis that they must provoke thought for some people, but after seeing two posts essentially saying “what do you think of my stick?”, I believe we can raise the bar a bit on what kind of thoughts we want to provoke here.
No more low effort posts please.
Repetitive meme posts can get annoying, and mods should intervene in some cases, but I’d prefer if the rules were more open. It’s hard to determine what is “low effort” and “thought-provoking”, and Lemmy is small so further limiting content isn’t that productive
Was this the post? https://lemmy.ca/post/9681692
I think people using this community are looking for something similar to AskReddit, and it’s totally ok if you want to be different from that since the Fediverse allows for more communities to be made.
Personally, (and you don’t need to run the community like this), I’m looking for a community for open-ended and discussion provoking questions, not necessarily thought-provoking questions. The stick one was fun and lead to fun discussion
I sort of agree, mainly with the lower population of Lemmy concern, albeit I’ve also seen other questions that, while not low effort necessarily, have made me wonder, “Wouldn’t this perhaps be better in a more specific community, or in a different style, like NoStupidQuestions?”
However, low population, not a moderator, so the mixed thoughts have left me refraining from asking or saying anything as I kinda think we already have an abundance of communities sparsely populated as-is and I’m not into backseat moderating. Still, the thoughts have been there and this thread’s given a nice opportunity to voice them.
The mods hate sticks. They are stick-bigots.
They’re good sticks Bront.
I thought it was a fine stick. If the post gets upvotes, it’s valuable to the community
Oh. To be fair, the ‘stick’ thing has been a running meme for a couple weeks now in some subs.
I… Apologize for my part in the stick fiasco. My 8 year old REALLY wanted me to post about it a few weeks ago.
Might’ve been in reddit. I honestly don’t notice the difference until I go try to use any of the short cuts that spez refused to implement in his shit app
It was fun while it lasted. Come to [email protected] for all your future stick rating needs!
Prerequisite: you == The asklemmy community
Well, you got what you asked for. As one is not allowed to ask real questions here, you get the “thought provoking questions” you wanted. No sympathy or pity from my side for wasting a good community name for a socio-psychological experiment.
I will provoke your mother. This is the most reddit post I have ever seen since joining lemmy
What if that stick is one of the most important sticks in history, and OP is just waiting to reveal the truth? What if it was there when Hitler died? Maybe it killed Hitler. You don’t know.
Yeah, I blocked that community within an hour of seeing all the stick posts.
I only saw two?
There’s tons of dumbass stick posts on a community that was recently created for the purpose of sharing pictures of sticks. It’s essentially the new beans meme for all the kids to rally around.
I thought you meant the ask lemmy community.
Naah. Lemmy in general. That post exploded into a mushroom cloud of collective dumbassery.
Welcome to the internet. First day here?
This mod gatekeeping feels like somewhere else I used to know…
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