• irelephant [he/him]🍭@lemm.eeOP
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      1 month ago

      Most people do not know how it came it be. On reddit, the only “rule” was to have a title, as a post couldn’t be made without one. there used to be multiple variations “title” “thing” “.”.

      • riwo@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        1 month ago

        i assumed it was people indicating that they are posting due to the one rule (post before you leave)

        • nature_man [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          It was indeed people posting that they were following the rule, it started on the 195 subreddit that was the precursor to 196, but IIRC people only started incorporating ‘rule’ as a joke in longer titles on 196