I don't know what everyone means when they use 'rule' in the title and at this point I'm too afraid to ask. Please enlighten me.

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[–] 251 points 2 years ago (40 children)

That's because the "rule" of !196@lemmy.blahaj.zone is to "post before you leave"... That creates a lot of random posts that all have some kind of "rule" in the title. Sometimes these posts get popular and you see them in your feed.

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  • [–] 153 points 2 years ago (14 children)

    For the curious, the original was actually /r/195 on Reddit. It started as a joke between some college roommates, in dorm room number 195. Then it eventually got popular as a sort of shitposting community. But the original 195 was basically unmoderated (because it was just a couple of dudes in college who started it for shiggles,) and was eventually brigaded and taken over by alt-right neonazis. The memes quickly devolved into straight up Nazi propaganda.

    So 196 was created as a sort of “new” 195, and that original brigade and subsequent takeover is why a lot of the 196 memes tend to lean hard left. The 196 sub was sort of a rebellion against the 195 takeover, which means that conservative stuff quickly got shut down. It eventually became a sort of safe space for transgender memes as a result. From there it became a sort of self-sustaining reaction where trans people saw it as safe so more trans people gravitated towards it.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago

    It's always seemed so wholesome to me how the trans folks are such a huge part of what makes that sub awesome but also it's not a "trans sub", so you get all these people there for the memes also experiencing fully normalized transness

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    I'm pretty sure neo-Nazis weren't the reason r/195 shut down. It was just that after 420 weeks the owners decided to end "the experiment".

    I wasn't on Reddit then though, so I wouldn't know.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Curious where you got your take if you weren't even on reddit? I never heard any of this before, was it, like, in the news or something?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

    The respective person wasn't on reddit then, likely was after, just in time to read the archives.

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  • [–] -3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Hey there you could've taken two seconds to read my profile and seen I have my pronouns listed there instead of just misgendering me

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    No, I really couldn't have. My attention span is too short. I apologize, if it makes you feel better. However, I can make no promises on any future mislabelings, to you, anyone or anything else. My attention span is too short for that.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    to have a dorm room 195 seems implausible. it implies at least 95 rooms on one floor

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Or building 1, section/floor 9, room 5. I’m in an apartment that has four digits, but that doesn’t mean there are over 1000 apartments in the complex. It simply means they follow a standard numbering scheme to make finding the specific apartments easier.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    In the Netherlands I saw some building were, instead of having a street number-flat number, the building had all the numbers listed on them. So, if the building had 100 houses, the street number for the building would be 150-249, and the next street number would be 250.

    It's possible they had a similar system.

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  • [–] 58 points 2 years ago (18 children)

    What if I visit the community/magazine without posting? How do they know?

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  • [–] 123 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    The incident will be reported at /var/log/auth.log

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    But then it’d be obvious the community is just used as a miscellaneous memes & 💩posts community and isn’t actually a place you go, browse, and post before logging off!

    Doesn’t matter either way but it is a clever bit of engagement bait / encouragement for new posters.

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  • [–] 37 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    B.A.N.N.E.D.

    No, they don't know buddy, ha. It's meant to be a non-serious rule for a non-serious community.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

    I'm pretty sure I was banned from that community for 3 days for commenting then leaving without making a post of my own.

    But I'm not sure if they ban someone for silently visiting then leaving without posting.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I can't find you in the Modlog for any actions but maybe I'm missing something, if you feel something happened feel free to email the mod team.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

    Isn't it a rule to have rule in the title as well?

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  • [–] 39 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    It’s not, but it’s become sort of a de-facto tradition to cite the fact that you are posting because of the rule by adding the word “rule” cleverly (or, sometimes, not-so-cleverly) to the title

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It is actually in the rules now

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