Do you check what community you're about to participate in before participating? (strawpoll.com)

submitted 6 days ago by TherapyGary to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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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)

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[-] dsilverz@calckey.world 1 points 6 days ago

@TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone !asklemmy@lemmy.world
The questionnaire is missing a third option: it depends/sometimes.

While I comment on Lemmy threads aware of the community's name (it's right there, near where I clicked to access the thread), I rarely go to the sidebar in order to know more about the given community.

This is exacerbated by how there are many homonym communities across different instances (e.g. Ask Lemmy, memes, Technology, etc), some of which even use a similar avatar/icon.

But there are times and situations where I double-check the rules before commenting something that I perceive as potentially controversial.

So, it's neither "no" nor "yes": "it depends".

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