I assumed that this was standard behaviour/etiquette, though I’m realizing maybe it’s actually not so common, and I want to know if I’m the weird one
If you don’t- why not?
(VPN voting enabled at the expense of allowing multiple votes per user- pls don’t abuse this for shits and giggles)
Not usually.
Because it doesn’t actually matter 99℅ of fhe time here. There aren’t many active gimmick communities where the community itself adds context to the post.
The results of this are horrifying me
This does explain why a lot of subreddits had the pinned comment be the automod telling people to follow the rules.
Are they surprising?
I usually don’t know the rules of the communities I participate in. But I do check what community a post is in.
I think that’s reasonable
I have run into users not being aware of which community a post is in a few times. Two recent examples
- We were discussing whether we should remove a post from [email protected] and if it was relevant to Canada. Two users may have misunderstood it as trying to defend trump
- I posted a study comparing the efficacy of a particular vaccine regiment in [email protected], which is intended for medical professionals, and someone thought I was posting antivax disinfo. Studies on vaccine efficacy are common, and that’s how we decide on schedules and develop better ones
I get it, times are stressful. I left polite comments pointing out the community, and in both cases it would have been smoother if the person checked what the community is about before making assumptions.
Half the time I don’t even spell check my comment and hit post, then edit the incompetence out 5 times.
Of course I do. Mostly because I avoid communities that I know will be toxic as hell and full of chuds
This seems to be the opposite experience for many who have expressed that they don’t check—they feel entitled to be present and post in every space regardless of any context
Only to check if it’s the onion or not, if my brain tells me, “that can’t be true”.
Absolutely not
Yeah, I check that it’s not .ml first.
Is this because yesterday?
No, I only check before posting. Comments shouldn’t need more rules beyond common rules unless it is some sort of role playing.
What happened yesterday?
There was post expressing frustration with men (post|comment)ing in women-only community , surprise surprise that threads immediately infested with (misogyn|cissex)ists
All my troubles seemed so far away.
“If you do, why” is a better question. And frankly, neither version really tells anyone anything.
People don’t check largely because Lemmy UI isn’t designed for the community to be a prominent thing, and being a member isn’t required by the app for someone to reply.
I assume this is being asked because of the earlier thread about “read the community rules before posting”… As someone else already said, make it private if you don’t want the public responding.
I literally cannot comprehend why you wouldn’t look at the community name before commenting. Do you not read titles either? What kind of life are you people living- it genuinely baffles me
I engage with content on my feed. The titles are prominent, the community name less so. If content seems extremely contextual, I’ll probably check, but otherwise I just engage with the content and comments.
It was surprisingly hard at one time to get both the poster and community to show up in Voyager. I spent about half an hour figuring out the settings to make it happen. Between shitpost, Onion, and NotTheOnion communities, and the amount of overlap between posts in them, I find that vital context in many posts.
I’m reading the post and looking at the pretty image if there is one.
If the post sounds like a shit post, I do check the community to see if it is likely to be ironic, but otherwise no.
STFU.
I see a title that I may have an opinion or quip to leave in comments.
I do NOT care what community/group it belongs in.
You mean this isn’t woodshop class?
Why even have communities if nobody is going to respect the individual culture and purpose of them?
Content filtering.
No, now are we going to discuss Laezel hentai or what?
Yes, because I like to know that my post will be a good fit for the community that I’m posting it in.
If I’m making a post I make sure it’s relevant to the community I’m posting to, but just commenting on posts that show up in my feed I dont bother most of the time. Most message board rules boil down to “stay roughly on topic and dont be a dick to the other people here” anyway; you probably dont need to know most message board rules if youre adhering to that.
There are some women only communities, like WomensStuff. I respect that women want to have their safe spaces without men inserting themselves into the conversation.
”But what about us??? Men have it difficult to!”
But usually it’s obvious from the title alone that it’s about woman subject.
I dont have a ton of respect for people making or enforcing exclusionary spaces on public message boards like that. If they really wanted a separate safe space they’d have something like beehaw with moderated sign-ups and a closed door policy to people who dont go through the verification. I dont care about it enough to argue and I go with a “block and let live” strategy regarding those kind of places, but im also not about to spend time or energy policing myself beyond the aforementioned “on topic, dont be a dick” because a bunch of people intentionally chose the wrong hosting tool for an exclusionary community so they can (in my opinion) performatively other people they dont like in a public space.
Yeah! If women want their own space they should sequester themselves into a backroom with no advertising and an onerous sign-up process requiring an ID check that no one ever sees or hears about but somehow all women will know it exists because they have a psychic sense for those kinds of things
Blud sequestering themselves from men is literally the stated goal of that kind of community. So… yeah? If people want to be sequestered that does involve sequestering themselves somewhere. Maybe if you feel like those kind of places are hard to find you should engage in some praxis and spread the word about them rather than crying at me because I feel othered by a “no men allowed” sign planted in a public forum. Wanting a safe space is valid. Trying to force people you dont like out of an open space to create that safe space is not valid.
Generally yes. It provides context for the posts, which is important, and while not as prominent as the post title and image in the main feed, it’s still listed right above those on the app I use.
Of course I do. It’s just basic nettiquette.
