No Stupid Questions
No such thing. Ask away!
!nostupidquestions is a community dedicated to being helpful and answering each others' questions on various topics.
The rules for posting and commenting, besides the rules defined here for lemmy.world, are as follows:
Rules (interactive)
Rule 1- All posts must be legitimate questions. All post titles must include a question.
All posts must be legitimate questions, and all post titles must include a question. Questions that are joke or trolling questions, memes, song lyrics as title, etc. are not allowed here. See Rule 6 for all exceptions.
Rule 2- Your question subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material.
Your question subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material. You will be warned first, banned second.
Rule 3- Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here.
Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here. Breaking this rule will not get you or your post removed, but it will put you at risk, and possibly in danger.
Rule 4- No self promotion or upvote-farming of any kind.
That's it.
Rule 5- No baiting or sealioning or promoting an agenda.
Questions which, instead of being of an innocuous nature, are specifically intended (based on reports and in the opinion of our crack moderation team) to bait users into ideological wars on charged political topics will be removed and the authors warned - or banned - depending on severity.
Rule 6- Regarding META posts and joke questions.
Provided it is about the community itself, you may post non-question posts using the [META] tag on your post title.
On fridays, you are allowed to post meme and troll questions, on the condition that it's in text format only, and conforms with our other rules. These posts MUST include the [NSQ Friday] tag in their title.
If you post a serious question on friday and are looking only for legitimate answers, then please include the [Serious] tag on your post. Irrelevant replies will then be removed by moderators.
Rule 7- You can't intentionally annoy, mock, or harass other members.
If you intentionally annoy, mock, harass, or discriminate against any individual member, you will be removed.
Likewise, if you are a member, sympathiser or a resemblant of a movement that is known to largely hate, mock, discriminate against, and/or want to take lives of a group of people, and you were provably vocal about your hate, then you will be banned on sight.
Rule 8- All comments should try to stay relevant to their parent content.
Rule 9- Reposts from other platforms are not allowed.
Let everyone have their own content.
Rule 10- Majority of bots aren't allowed to participate here.
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Hashtags serve several different functions on Twitter. I'm not sure how similar Mastadon is in this respect, but here's some of the purposes:
Areas of interest
So if you support a particular sports team, or like a particular TV show, or whatever, you can search for (and use) hashtags around that topic to find discussion and to make your thoughts more likely to be seen by those interested. These hashtags are likely to remain relevant over a long period of time, since their subject is a permanent, ongoing thing.
Trending news/issues
When something notable is happening in the world, hashtags are a good way of related information. This could be a sports event, or a breaking news story or whatever. These hashtags are usually going to be relevant only for a limited period of time, but they're useful for in-the-moment info/discussion.
Jokes/Messages/Emphasis
This is like an ultracompressed and more focused version of the above. So if someone posts something they think, and uses a hashtag (which changes the text colour and thus draws the eye), it can be simply to highlight that message, a bit like using bold or italics. This is only likely to be relevant to the individuals involved in the conversation, although followers may get something from it too. They're usually intended for one-off use, not for long or even medium term grouping of ideals or information - although their use can also be part of a wider trend.
See, for example, instances of people adding #OKBoomer onto a tweet - it's adding tone of voice and attitude to the main tweet, but it also ties into a wider trend of similar messages relating to intergenerational conflict or disagreement. It can also be used in an ironic way, referring to the more earnest usage of the tag, in order to make a humorous, or self-deprecating point.
Overall hashtags can be very versatile and useful. And even fun.
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