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


I like the idea of cool rocks being the general geology comm, including news and research on the subject. The venn diagram of subscribers to both is likely to be a circle, or damn near to it. Like you said, why have yet another news comm?