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The stick post was the most upvoted post in the past 7 days.
That doesn’t make it good.
It doesn't make it bad either.
Yes, it actually does. Unless you think upvotes are somehow independent of content's value?
You honestly believe that upvotes mean something is good? Or do you think that maybe it just means that it’s popular?
Having settled that-
Popular ≠ good.
Doesn't mean it fit in this community. Yeah it was probably fine to let one of those threads go by,, but the second was too much.
I honestly didn't think they fit and I checked the rules to see what was going on because I assumed this was a community similar to askreddit.
Well, it was way more interesting than the usual stuff here. So much about "thought provoking".
"How do you rate a stick?" is a pretty interesting question, and it as asked implicitly by that post. I'm in favor of posts like that
Why was it so much upvoted ?
What does it say about the average ~~let me use her~~ Lemmy user ?
is there a disconnect between users and moderators ?
Perhaps it's a critique on the quality of the rest of the posts.
Or, the most straightforward option, it's an indication the community liked the post
More like a disconnect between the moderators and reality.
I believe no sexual thoughts went into that, as can be seen by the replies.