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this post was submitted on 22 Sep 2026
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I really wish this comm took after Rule 2 of /r/whatisthisthing and disallowed joke comments. Not because "reeee no fun allowed" but because that's already present everywhere else, and it'd facilitate a lot more interesting, useful, unique discussion.
Without hyperbole, that one rule makes /r/whatisthisthing way better than most subreddits, because it doesn't let it just sink into the lowest common denominator like the rest of that shithole has.
I personally don't mind them, yet.
Posts around here don't get that many comments so it is not that hard to ignore them, in a place with as many people as reddit is an absolute necessity a rule like that but here I don't it is a problem, again, yet.
Maybe in the future if it goes beyond an annoyance sometimes and becomes a problem.
If it becomes a problem a compromise could be one automated post for joke comments to go under and all others are banned. You keep the funny, but its contained and easy to skip past.
But doctor I have this problem: whenever I'm serious, people think I'm joking, and whenever I'm joking, people think I'm serious.
-Pagliacci the clown.
How do I upvote a post 100 times?
Ah yes, let’s pollute our nice comfy hangout spot into that racist shithole
What could possibly go wrong? 🙄
That is not what adding this new rule would do tho?
Well, what effect did those rules have on the platform they originated from?
Bro wants to turn every com into one with 3 gazillion obscure rules.
> "Rule: actually try to answer people's questions in a community dedicated to asking questions"
> "bro that's way too obscure for me"
^ hates fun and whimsy
Also addressed in the og post.
He wants one rule. That’s so much less than 3 gazillion.