No Stupid Questions
No such thing. Ask away!
!nostupidquestions is a community dedicated to being helpful and answering each others' questions on various topics.
The rules for posting and commenting, besides the rules defined here for lemmy.world, are as follows:
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Rule 1- All posts must be legitimate questions. All post titles must include a question.
All posts must be legitimate questions, and all post titles must include a question. Questions that are joke or trolling questions, memes, song lyrics as title, etc. are not allowed here. See Rule 6 for all exceptions.
Rule 2- Your question subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material.
Your question subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material. You will be warned first, banned second.
Rule 3- Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here.
Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here. Breaking this rule will not get you or your post removed, but it will put you at risk, and possibly in danger.
Rule 4- No self promotion or upvote-farming of any kind.
That's it.
Rule 5- No baiting or sealioning or promoting an agenda.
Questions which, instead of being of an innocuous nature, are specifically intended (based on reports and in the opinion of our crack moderation team) to bait users into ideological wars on charged political topics will be removed and the authors warned - or banned - depending on severity.
Rule 6- Regarding META posts and joke questions.
Provided it is about the community itself, you may post non-question posts using the [META] tag on your post title.
On fridays, you are allowed to post meme and troll questions, on the condition that it's in text format only, and conforms with our other rules. These posts MUST include the [NSQ Friday] tag in their title.
If you post a serious question on friday and are looking only for legitimate answers, then please include the [Serious] tag on your post. Irrelevant replies will then be removed by moderators.
Rule 7- You can't intentionally annoy, mock, or harass other members.
If you intentionally annoy, mock, harass, or discriminate against any individual member, you will be removed.
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Rule 8- All comments should try to stay relevant to their parent content.
Rule 9- Reposts from other platforms are not allowed.
Let everyone have their own content.
Rule 10- Majority of bots aren't allowed to participate here.
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Which is stupid.
Not really, it's just not Reddit
Of course you're welcome to that opinion but it's a fundamental design feature of the fediverse.
There's no central point of control. Anyone can create an instance and create their own "No stupid questions" community.
There are obvious benefits if you'd care to consider them but if not it's fine if the fediverse isn't for you. There's always reddit I guess.
There is nothing stopping the fediverse from checking with other instances to see if a name is already in use. That would be a pretty cool feature to avoid a whole bunch of duplication.
They're not duplicates. Remember /r/games and /r/gaming? Both with unique moderation styles? Well now they don't need different names.
Yup, this is just as easy If you notice one of the "nostupidquestions@fucknuts.com" communities is always posting edgy bullshit, you unsub and go on your way. No different than unsubing from "Actual" or "True" variants on reddit.
Yes there is.
It's decentralised. There's no central authority.
Even if lemmy imposed that restriction, you could just fork the code and remove it.
Wait, he's got a point though: Why not something like this:
A user wants to create a new community. He enters a name, then the system checks and informs that "the fediverse already has a community by that name +here and +here." The user may still create this same community on this instance - or he might say, hey cool thanks, and go subscribe to (one of?) the existing ones instead.
This would only help if people creating these communities were not aware that communities with the same name exist on other instances.
Even if this feature did discourage someone from creating a new community, some other fief lord would be along shortly to create it.
I did feel the same way about multiple communities initially, but now I've been here a while I realise that it's just not a problem - just subscribe to all of them, that's the solution.
Ah yes, just like how having multiple email providers is stupid. We should all just use Gmail as a the single source of truth! /s
And confusing
This is the same thing as having a community on Discord, Reddit, Twitter, and Facebook, except you get the feature of them seamlessly working together.
Now I'm wondering if we could create meta subs that we could subscribe too...
No u
I think over time some instances and some admins will become more popular, and weed out the rest.
To some extent perhaps but I don't think that should be the objective.
Just subscribe to all the "no stupid questions" communities. It's no big thing.
New ones get created all the constantly. Are they supposed to spend all their time monitoring every instance for new variants of a community?
I mean, this is how everything worked already. People start subreddits and have to get traction, make their way to /r/all, etc. Having ~one single space~ wasn't magic, and things work exactly the same.
If you see a community that interests you, subscribe to it and be the change.