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Flicking through the front page and around half of all posts have the world "rule" in the title. What's that about?

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[–] jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works 31 points 11 months ago (1 children)

rule of the 196 community is you must post something before you leave.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Because you haven't blocked the communities that have the single rule that you have to post something if you visit them. I think there's two of them, and when I sorted by all/new they were about all I saw for a while so I blocked them and life has been better.

[–] wsweg@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

You don’t only see Star Trek and Linux communities? I had to block a large portion of those

[–] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 2 points 11 months ago

That's funny to me as that's been most of what I haven't blocked.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

I blocked a lot of meme communities. I kept shit post, but there were some that were just nonstop posts that saturated my feed

[–] _MusicJunkie@beehaw.org 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The 196 community has a rule saying you have to post something - anything - if you visit them. So folks post something to fulfill that rule, and over time it evolved from "here's my random post because of the rule" or something into just tiling it "rule".

[–] barkingspiders@infosec.pub 5 points 11 months ago

I've been here for months and never understood what was going on there, thanks for answering!

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The 196 community says all posts must have "rule" in the title.

[–] null@slrpnk.net 8 points 11 months ago

No it doesn't

[–] numbermess@beehaw.org 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I have had the same experience and question. I don't know why there is so much of it, but have found that blocking any community that is named or references "196" seems to take care of it.

I decided that I was never really going to devote the time to get in on the joke and there was way too much of it anyway.

[–] Nachorella@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There really isn't a joke to get, it's just a silly community, so if you weren't enjoying the posts you're not missing out. I hope you can rest easy now, friend.

[–] numbermess@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago

I have been resting easy for months! Thanks bud.

[–] Wolfman86@hexbear.net 1 points 4 months ago

I think its like "standard"