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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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But the advantage is that Lemmy allows Tor. 😅

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[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

User tags make recognizing people a lot easier. I see tagged users a lot. Voyager even keeps a running total of how many times I have upvoted and downvoted particular users.

There’s one user I have at like -30, tagged as a Nazi apologist. And sure enough, every time I scroll past them, they’re commenting some weird BS.

[–] gt5@lemm.ee 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

How do you tag users on voyager?

[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Go to the user screen, then use the menu button in the top corner. There’s an “Edit Tag” option.

[–] MrShankles@reddthat.com 1 points 7 hours ago

Heyyy, it apparently works the same on Boost. In honor of teaching me how to tag people, you are now tagged as "Tagged". Thank you and congratulations!

[–] megane_kun@lemm.ee 1 points 18 hours ago

Oh, I use that too on my mobile app (Voyager). I am starting to think that once the total votes reach some threshold, either I'd encounter them consistently dishing out hot takes, or I'm primed to think their take is hot and spicy.