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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

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  1. All posts must be showerthoughts
  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
  3. No politics
    • If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
    • A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
  4. Posts must be original/unique
  5. Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct and the TOS

If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.

Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report, the message goes away and you never worry about it.

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Considering the number of rage baits out there these days.

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[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

The amount of obvious karma farming getting 1500+ comments of "engagement" is insane. Just take a brief look on r/all and you'll see about 20% bait. r/AITA, r/AmIOverreacting, r/PeterExplainsTheJoke, etc all of these likely-styled subreddits are just obvious bots. I don't even get the point of karma farming.

[–] simple@piefed.social 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I really want to know who keeps upvoting those obviously fake AITA posts.

My husband beat me for donating $5 to charity, AITA? (20k upvotes)

[–] LilB0kChoy@midwest.social 2 points 1 day ago

The same people who enjoy soap operas and over the top dramas.

I've heard of people running it as a side gig. Shady advertising companies will buy your reddit account, the more history the better. I have no idea the price range but I can't imagine it's much, because the entire process can be automated at this point.