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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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[–] [email protected] 31 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)
[–] nave 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The more popular one is [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 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".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

No it doesn't

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

I have been resting easy for months! Thanks bud.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I think its like "standard"