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[Meta] This community shouldn't allow image posts (lemmy.ca)
submitted 1 day ago by to c/dadjokes@lemmy.world
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Not only are image posts less accessible, they're much lower effort. This community was much better when it was just structured jokes as text posts. Now it's getting posts with the less than pointless "rule" crap and it's slowly becoming yet another s#%$post community and losing what made it special.

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[–] 22 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

I’m still keeping my stance of “if it’s groan/facepalm-inducing, it’s a dad joke and it fits”.

This one, for example, is a fitting dadjoke and it works much better in picture form.

As long as posts respect that, they’re fine by me. There’s still a distinction between dad jokes and more generic “memes/shitposts”.

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  • [–] 7 points 17 hours ago (1 child)

    "Guys," said the amplifier, "Can I give y'all some feedback?"

    It works just fine in text.

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  • [–] 3 points 15 hours ago

    You can write it in text, but it works much better as a picture.

    You don’t have the context of it being at a “meeting”, and saying that to guitars. And adding that to a text joke makes it a bit too long and convoluted. In picture you just need one balloon, and it’s perfect.

    I don’t think it’s worth to ban those type of posts just for fear of turning into a generic shitpost community, so far the only non-dad jokes (as a category) I’ve seen upvoted in here are the couple “jokes about dads” that have been posted recently, and if they start getting spammed too much we can restrict those specifically.

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