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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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[–] grue@lemmy.world 19 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Downvotes sometimes make me want to clarify what I wrote on the assumption that it got misinterpreted.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 12 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

Has that ever worked for you?

I do it a lot and can't think of a single time it worked.

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 9 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Occasionally. Other times it makes people angrier

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago
[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 5 points 18 hours ago

I've seen a number of comments with a visible edit that have an even split between down and up votes. I can only assume the edit worked. Not like votes mean anything on Lemmy. It's kinda nice not having the overall "karma" visible at all times.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago

Looking through some of my controversial comments, it seems like it worked maybe 1/3 - 1/2 of the time?