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I sort of agree, mainly with the lower population of Lemmy concern, albeit I've also seen other questions that, while not low effort necessarily, have made me wonder, "Wouldn't this perhaps be better in a more specific community, or in a different style, like NoStupidQuestions?"

However, low population, not a moderator, so the mixed thoughts have left me refraining from asking or saying anything as I kinda think we already have an abundance of communities sparsely populated as-is and I'm not into backseat moderating. Still, the thoughts have been there and this thread's given a nice opportunity to voice them.

The most fun part of the early internet was the feeling that it was the Wild West. Lawlessness and fun. Obviously, rules are needed to keep things under control, but I agree that erring on the side of having fun isn’t a bad thing. It’s more inclusive and it lets people express themselves.

One of my favorite things to see on Lemmy is people who lurked on Reddit but feel free to talk here. Being too heavy-handed with rules might discourage those people from contributing.

This is a really good point. Should the community be for thought provoking questions or discussion provoking questions?

Time to start a stick appreciation community called RamblinRods

Most people liked the stick post. I don't know how these whiners expect Lemmy to compete with reddit while also not allowing people to have fun.

All this anti-stick propaganda is getting to me.

I’ll have you know, one of my best friends is a stick.

Bigly effort

That doesn’t make it good.

Doesn't mean it fit in this community. Yeah it was probably fine to let one of those threads go by,, but the second was too much.

I honestly didn't think they fit and I checked the rules to see what was going on because I assumed this was a community similar to askreddit.

Well, it was way more interesting than the usual stuff here. So much about "thought provoking".

It was a nice stick though

I usually use NoStupidQuestions as the catch all for when I don't have something better. We have a few communities for that

People don’t seem to get that this one is similar to AskReddit in purpose

Which does not make it anny better. Is there no better name for a group that is not about answering questions?

I thought it was a fine stick. If the post gets upvotes, it's valuable to the community

I only saw two?

Only if you say what you think of mine