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Cool Rocks

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A place for:

Minerals are cool, too.

Be gneiss to each other

Please use posts for your rocks. Feel free to add more pictures and links to articles in the post text.

This place is building up fast and looking for another mod, someone who:

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Question: Should we include news about Cool Rocks? (lemmy.today)
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Asking folks so I can clarify the rules.

Rocks and minerals are pretty fascinating, quite a few discussions pop up in the comments about geology — We could all learn together with some science peppered in.

At the same time, I really like the vibe of mostly sharing rocks, encouraging people to go rock hounding for the hell of it. ~And~ ~I~ ~already~ ~have~ ~three~ ~news~ ~coms.~

Alternatively, we could partner with or make a geology com for the science and news side of things, keeping this community focused on the rocks.

The questions:

  • Should we include articles, discourage them, or have a rule against them?

  • If we don't want articles, should we partner with or create a partner community for articles and science?

edit: I'll leave this up for about a day and amend the rules sometime over the weekend based on vibes and feelings, not going by votes or volume. I can always change things around again if we're not happy with the rules.

edit: Thanks everyone. I changed the sidebar text to encourage cool rock posting, with facts and articles in the body.

Feel free to keep discussing the cool rocks community if you have ideas.

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[–] actionjbone@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I enjoy seeing the photos of cool rocks. I think it's fine if there's also an article to go along with the rock, but the post should primarily be about the photo of the cool rock itself.

Like, if there's a cool looking rock that came out of a volcano, and if there's an article specifically about how it came out of the volcano, that's great! But the post needs to be about the cool looking rock itself.

Maybe the post itself is just the picture of the rock, and OP should add the science stuff to a reply?

[–] Wren@lemmy.today 3 points 1 week ago

I like this compromise. People who want facts get their facts and the cool rock feed purists keep their rocks.