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[Mr Frog]

From what I've seen, people only seem to be getting really irritated at tired, old crap like "clownite", etc.. If it was funny the first five hundred times...
As an example, my thousands of hideously poor attempts at original humor have, at the very least, not annoyed anybody to the point that they felt the need to make a post telling me to shut up. But when I made the mistake of unironically using "clownite", "clowns" and "clown car" all in the same post... well, nothing really happened, but someone definitely got irked (although it wasn't at me, specifically, which is pretty rare.)
I think one of the most important parts of comedy is the element of surprise. So surprise us, preferably with your creativity.  I think people would get less annoyed by the whole clown metaphor if it was taken in a different direction than usual (what that direction is, I don't know). Also, since a surprisingly small amount of people seem to realise this: "surprise" and "random" are not the same thing. There has to be some coherence, some connection between the setup and the punchline (AKA the "funny" part)-- a punchline by itself is just sad.

I think this is the driest post I have ever made, ever.

[sonerohi]

     People who use the clown metaphor didn't realize the humor died quickly, which was excusable because it was I guess, and were caught up in it enough that they shoehorned it as the new term to use for HFS, insisting that HFS was a dead joke, which irked me personally. HFS means hidden fun stuff. Apt enough description, the words Toady put in himself. It would be like all of the people you met tomorrow referring to the weather as a 'hotdog stand'. Funny for maybe five minutes due to the oddness, but it would get old quickly. Also, as others have stated, timing and appropriateness of jokes, and the over usage of them. If you make a thread, I guarantee that you will get five, minimum posts that can be condensed to "herf derf magma elf derf hurrrrr". There is no set-up, just a poor attempt at a stand-alone punchline. The reason the hostility exists is because, were it not to, those jokes would be more common than they are, that when someone did make a funny joke, no one would even read it because they wouldn't give two damns. I suppose it is our filter on comedy, like how open mic night strains out the good guys from the people who still think fart jokes are awesome.

[The Minister]

A lot of "humour" / "joke" threads showing up on the wrong part of the forums is what I've been seeing. There is an entire other part of the forums for non-DF related garbage like "Toady One I Am Watching You Like A Hawk."

But if you're legitimately wondering why the people posting "What should we call the clown car" and "Guy let's make new preselected memes for the community" threads over and over again are getting negative response, it's because in the first scenario a lot of people really don't like the way-past-its-due-date clown analogy (or any similar forced metaphor I should add) and the new version is the best time to stop that and the second scenario was a bad idea to begin with.

There's plenty of humour on this forum, it's just lightly sprinkled on everything rather than being concentrated in "haha look guys this is going to be so good just wait" threads.

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[Retro]

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I would not define a thread consisting entirely of "Toady I Am Watching You... Like A Hawk" as DF-related. Nor particularly hilarious.

[DFPongo]

Certainly there must be some rule about using the term Meme to many times in a post.

[Vattic]

I never have posted that regularly but I have read the forum for some time. I hadn't noticed an anger problem but I certainly noticed lots of new names which is good. Since I joined there have been occasional topics with angry contents and some members who don't get along but it's by far the most civil and friendly forum I know.

I must admit that the whole clown reference is something I never found funny and I'm glad to read I'm not the only one. I didn't know others felt the same way until this topic as I've been avoiding all talk of HFS like the plague.

[Deon]

What, the clown reference was funny? I thought it's there just to avoid actual names as spoilers.

[Kogan Loloklam]

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So I'll join in, what happened to the funny people, like that one guy who always begins his messages with Hi and ends it with his name? What was his name again? Bah, who cares!
 
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Hi!
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Deathworks

It saves you a lot of embarrassment to read more carefully.

How could I ever missed that. What was his name again though?

 

[MaDeR Levap]

What, the clown reference was funny? I thought it's there just to avoid actual names as spoilers.

I would not call

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

"...so I encounter clownite, dig it and then fireclowns raped my entire military..."

particulary good anti-spoiler. Almost all is spoiled, only identification of ***nite left. I think some people use this term because so. It is like slang.

[Sizik]

What, the clown reference was funny? I thought it's there just to avoid actual names as spoilers.

I would not call

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

"...so I encounter clownite, dig it and then fireclowns raped my entire military..."

particulary good anti-spoiler. Almost all is spoiled, only identification of ***nite left. I think some people use this term because so. It is like slang.

Although it does do the intended job of not spoiling the relationship between adamantine and demons, which is what the whole spoiler business is about.

[LeoLeonardoIII]

I think it is the Economy. And various First-World Problems.

[abculatter_2]

Three pages...

It should've stopped on the first.

[SirPenguin]

The farther we can move away from people wallowing in a pool of tired in-jokes the better. Like all good forums I'd say this one has reached a critical mass and is slowly rebelling against such things. The "clown" nonsense was certainly the catalyst.