WetShaving
This is a community of enthusiasts, hobbyists and artisans who enjoy a traditional wet shave: brush, soap, and safety or straight razor. We are a part of the WetShaving community found on Reddit, Discord, and IRC.
New subscribers welcome!
Please visit our wiki, which is always and forever a work in progress.
While this server is funded by personal contributions, we'd like to thank Zulip for giving us a Community subscription to their chat software (available at https://chat.wetshav.ing/).

๐ช Check out these alternative front-ends for this server:
https://gem.wetshaving.social/ - a nice modern interface
Our sister Mastodon instance is https://wetshaving.social/.
๐ช Track the uptime of our various services here:
https://uptime.selfhost.ing/status/wetshaving
๐ช Community Rules
Rule 1 - Behaviour and Etiquette
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Be Respectful. Do not bully, flame, or harass others.
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Malicious comments are not allowed but heated discussion and salty banter is okay.
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Low effort replies and complaints about content will be removed.
Rule 2 - Content Guidelines
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Mail Calls, Simple Questions, and SOTD posts belong in the recurring weekly threads.
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Posts must have sufficient content to generate a meaningful discussion.
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Images, links, or videos must include additional text that summarizes the topic.
Rule 3 - Reviews and Disclosure
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Use [First Impressions] in the title if your experience with the product is limited.
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Use the [Review] in the title if you can provide comprehensive details with enough familiarity to answer follow-up questions.
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Disclose how the product being reviewed was acquired (e.g., PIF, loan, or purchase). If the product was provided to you directly by the maker or vendor free of charge or at a discount, you must disclose this fact even if the item will later be returned to the maker or vendor.
Rule 4 - Advertising
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Vendors are to keep marketing within the biweekly Deals/New Products threads.
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Non-vendors may post topics about products if it will foster a compelling discussion.
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Do not solicit donations or share fundraisers without mod approval.
Rule 5 - Inappropriate Content
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All NSFW/L content must request mod approval and be flaired appropriately.
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Non-shaving related NSFW/L content is not allowed.
Rule 10 - Moderator Discretion
- The rules may not apply perfectly to every situation. The mods have final discretion.
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Am I correct in thinking we're skipping February for BVWSC?
@porkbuttsntaters666@sub.wetshaving.social has been the only one managing the voting process, should we have a discussion about how to more fairly share that burden?
Well, I completely screwed up on this - I suggest we revert to a Tabac shave for February.
I will launch prep for March tomorrow. Burden-sharing in launching the prep in not really necessary - it's not much work, but I need a reminder sometimes.
One thing is also that you and walden have been winning an awful lot recently, so maybe some burdensharing on that side would be fair ๐คท
The natural suggestion is for folks to propose better soaps! ;)
or for you to get better taste ๐
~I'll see myself out~
~~In related news, there's a new feature coming to PieFed in an upcoming release. On Lemmy we have a local-only community to handle voting, but people from PieFed don't see those posts unless they log in to Lemmy (local-only means no federation). The new feature will be invite-only communities, meaning we could create the BVWSC voting community on PieFed and everyone will see those posts. Only people who are invited can join.~~
I've been informed that these communities won't federate, actually. So it's still just local-only, but with an added layer of needing an invite. So, nevermind!
Ah, that would be very cool if it worked how you thought it would.