That's because the "rule" of !196@lemmy.blahaj.zone is to "post before you leave"... That creates a lot of random posts that all have some kind of "rule" in the title. Sometimes these posts get popular and you see them in your feed.

[–] ULS@lemmy.ml 17 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Isn't it a rule to have rule in the title as well?

[–] 4am@lemm.ee 39 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It’s not, but it’s become sort of a de-facto tradition to cite the fact that you are posting because of the rule by adding the word “rule” cleverly (or, sometimes, not-so-cleverly) to the title

[–] null 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It is actually in the rules now

[–] queue@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If you're talking about Lemmy's 196, it's not a rule and never was for us. "Post before you leave" is a "rule" but titling it rule is not. It's just an injoke.

[–] null 4 points 8 months ago

It actually was, in one of the stickied posts. Looks like it's been replaced though.

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