This meme is dedicated to every user who brakes the rules, and posts anything not related.
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To be fair, some apps do virtually everything in their power to hide those behind multiple clicks, scrolls way down, and then more clicks.
Whereas PieFed’s web UI shows the entire community sidebar text on every single page below each post - see this example.
Some tools are just built different:-).
But you have to scroll to the end of the comments to see the rules? That can be pretty far in threads with only a couple dozen comments. I even almost missed them because I didn’t scroll down far enough initially, and this thread has 2 (now 3) comments.
This is a hard design problem, one that even Reddit with all its money hasn’t found a solution to (there’s a reason every subreddit had the automod pin a comment telling people the rules).
Yes you are right - it’s not immediately presented to people at the top, so easy to miss. On the other hand, like the page that I am on now replying to you, there is only your comment and this one I am writing now, so it is much easier to see the rules at the bottom of this page than if there were let’s say >1k comments to have to scroll past. Although if someone knows that the info is there, it somewhat makes it easier to find information from it while writing a reply or even just reading other comments - I’ve done that on YPTB for the more rarely used acronyms before.
More generally the more apps there are, the greater diversity of methods of access to the Threadiverse (starting with the underlying Lemmy vs. PieFed vs. Mbin, also Mastodon, Friendica, at some point nodeBB and flarum - if that plan isn’t cancelled now), and then all the 3rd party apps available for each platform.
Another thing that PieFed helps solve is when people scroll through All and downvote content without realizing what it is all about, a subset of the OP issue, but PieFed provides the ability to restrict voting to only accounts that are subscribed to the community, if the mods enable that setting (I believe it only affects PieFed instances though, since PieFed cannot restrict if Lemmy wants to federate an upvote or not). I like the idea of this since that would affect users regardless of what front-end UI method of access they use.
Easier: Post whatever and if someone calls you out tell them their mom is a bitch.
This piqued my interest. So I read the rules. Then I read the mod logs. There are definitely unwritten rules too!
