As per the title. I’m obviously an old Bustard. Somebody please explain Rule to me.
The history: https://i.redd.it/lgpet1ydu2v71.png
It’s funny, I never saw 196 on reddit but it really makes an impact in this part of the fediverse!
fr they’re delivering the memes
https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/c/196 Rule: You must post before you leave.
It’s annoying AF, much like the habit of people posting comments consisting of “Based” all over the place in recent times. The latter is dying down fortunately, and I hope the R meme meets a quick and painful death very soon.
they are only posting the “rule posts” in 196 communities, mostly centered around lemmy.blahaj.zone, but there’s a couple of other splinter subs. If you just avoid 196 you wont see it.
The block feature is your friend. Use it liberally and don’t feel bad about it.
Seriously, if everyone blocked communities they disagree with or aren’t interested in instead of resorting to the old toxic behaviors that would be a huge improvement.
Rule 196 is what I’m assuming you’re talking about. It was a subreddit that gained popularity due to only having one rule, which is to post before leaving. The sub started after it’s predecessor, r/195, was shut down by the moderators
And worth pointing out that Lemmy has a c/195 and a c/196.
I blocked both of them because I just don’t want to see that many memes and /new was full of posts in those two communities. But clearly a lot of people are enjoying those.
Haha I’m having great fun over there but I can definitely see why you wouldn’t want your feed full of that nonsense.
Ok. But what was r/195?
And why did it shut down and have to be replaced by r/196 ?
Reusing a comment i made a few days ago, “It’s based off r/195, which was a sub where the main rule was that you had to make 1 post before leaving, that sub closed down a few years ago, then r/196 was made to replace it. IIRC r/195 was originally for some peoples apartment, with the name just being their apartment number. Eventually other people joined in because of the rule and it snowballed from there.”
To add onto that, r/195 shut down because the mods didn’t feel like running it anymore as it became to much to handle.The shut down was a bit more cryptic, after almost ten years they just said the “experiment is over” and shut down lol
Oh, just found this write-up from the original creator, apparently people just suck: https://i.redd.it/lgpet1ydu2v71.png
