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💎 The most important concept: Gem vs. Coal
If you learn only one thing, learn this.
Gem = good.
A funny, creative, impressive, unusually bizarre, or otherwise successful post is a gem.
Coal = bad.
Low-effort, unfunny, repetitive, forced, or otherwise undesirable content is coal.
So:
>"This is a gem."
= "This is excellent."
>Absolute coal.
= "This sucks."
The community turned this into an elaborate mineral-rating system:
gem → ruby → iron → coal → brimstone/vantablack
The exact hierarchy is intentionally inconsistent, but the basic idea is that you're rating how good/bad something is.