I'm obviously old. what is this "rule" trend I'm seeing everywhere on Lemmy?

makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 34 points –

As per the title. I'm obviously an old Bustard. Somebody please explain Rule to me.

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Rule 196 is what I'm assuming you're talking about. It was a subreddit that gained popularity due to only having one rule, which is to post before leaving. The sub started after it's predecessor, r/195, was shut down by the moderators

And worth pointing out that Lemmy has a c/195 and a c/196.

I blocked both of them because I just don't want to see that many memes and /new was full of posts in those two communities. But clearly a lot of people are enjoying those.

Thank you for this idea! I’ve been here like 24 hours and I’m already annoyed with them.

Ok. But what was r/195?

I saw someone else respond to this on an earlier thread that it was the dorm room number of the person who created it. The sub closed down and someone created a new one as 196. The rule has always been the same.

And why did it shut down and have to be replaced by r/196 ?

Reusing a comment i made a few days ago, "It's based off r/195, which was a sub where the main rule was that you had to make 1 post before leaving, that sub closed down a few years ago, then r/196 was made to replace it. IIRC r/195 was originally for some peoples apartment, with the name just being their apartment number. Eventually other people joined in because of the rule and it snowballed from there."
To add onto that, r/195 shut down because the mods didn't feel like running it anymore as it became to much to handle.

The shut down was a bit more cryptic, after almost ten years they just said the "experiment is over" and shut down lol

Oh, just found this write-up from the original creator, apparently people just suck: https://i.redd.it/lgpet1ydu2v71.png