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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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[–] bryndos@fedia.io 1 points 1 day ago

I block users who say cuntish stuff. That's not censorship, they can still say it. I just have my fingers in my ears.

Mods on an internet forum don't really have the power to censor, they can stop you spreading your shit via their webshite, but they cant stop you from spreading it elsewise.

It's not censorship for me to wipe your graffiti off my wall. It'd be censorship for the police to lock you up for the content of your message. Or for the govt to make writing what you wrote a crime.

If they just do you for criminal damage though that's fine.