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badposting is a comm where you post badly


This is not a !the_dunk_tank@hexbear.net alternative. This is not a !memes@hexbear.net alternative. This is a place for you to post your bad posts.

Ever had a really shitty bit idea? Joke you want to take way past the point of where it was funny? Want to feel like a stand-up comedy guy who's been bombing a set for the past 30 minutes straight and at this point is just saying shit to see if people react to it? Really bad pun? A homemade cringe concoction? A cognitohazard that you have birthed into this world and have an urge to spread like chain mail?


Rules:

  1. Do not post good posts.
    • Unauthorized goodposting is to be punished in the manner of commenting the phrase "GOOD post" followed by an emoji that has not yet been used in the thread
    • Use an emoticon/kaomoji/rule-three-abiding ASCII art if the rations run out
  2. This is not a comm where you direct people to other people's bad posts. This is a comm where you post badly.
  3. This rule intentionally left blank.
  4. If you're struck for rule 3, skill issue, not allowed to complain about it.

Code of Conduct applies just as much here as it does everywhere else. Technically, CoC violations are bad posts. On the other hand: L + ratio + get ~~better~~ worse material bozo

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6 days ago I was "replaced" by an imposter. The evil doppleposter, @WokePalpitoad@hexbear.net.

I awoke in a daze. In the dark hours of 4:30 PM I see a silhouette on the far wall of my bedroom. The shadow crept towards me. I thought it was sleep paralysis, but it was soon to be post paralysis as I entered hell.

I was tied to my bed with hundreds of meters of cheaply-made, non-standard power-only USB-C cables. I couldn't break free. I shimmied and shook and couldn't get loose. The vile shadowself whose dark ess stretched across the room held an iPad in his hand. And he was posting. As me.

He held it over my head like I was an iPad baby. Mocking me. Tormenting me. Upbearing all the bad posts. But eventually slipping into my persona that none of you could see through.

But like all liars, he left little clues subconsciously. As even liars yearn for truth.

Or perhaps they're truly inhuman and lacked the understanding. They struggled to understand what Pokemon actually is and have no respect for intellectual property laws and thus posted "Pokemon cards" that are technically cards with Pokemon on them, but not the TCG. And also Metazoo card for some reason.

And not one of you noticed.

Not one of you cared about the Indian Funskool bootleg Squirtle card posted.

After days of being tied up I asked for nourishment. He opened a bottle of Dr. Pepper Zero beside my head. I begged for the full flavour and calories of the non-diet version! He didn't care. I was forced to chug the 31 flavours of Dr. Pepper in a zero calorie form.

I would eventually shit myself Trump-style.

But it got worse. He was getting upbears on all of his posts. Even the bad joke attempts. Those are my upbears and I demand they be transferred to me. I did the math, his posts did statistically better than mine.

I imagine that if it continued he would have been given moderator status, which he openly craved.

And worse yet. As if fate itself was tormenting me (it was) he pressed the iPad against my face as he got a DM from not one, but seemingly multiple posters with [she/her] pronoun tags on the site. Figuratively throwing themselves at him as he literally threw the iPad against my tear-soaked face.

I demand those, too, be transferred to me.

But through my darkest hour, in my darkest bedroom, there came light. An electrical fire started because it turns out that the iPad was being powered by those hundreds of meters of cheaply-made, non-standard power-only USB-C cables. I soon broke free. The sparks melted the extremely thin plastic of the wire casings and I was able to heave myself out of bed.

I flung open the door. The room was flooded with light. The doppleposter was gone as if they had never been here. Except the hundreds of meters of useless USB-C cables probably bought off of AliExpress.

This was 45 minutes ago. I'm taking a shower and I will be drinking a non-diet soda in there.

I will be accepting apologies. And dates.

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[–] WokePalpatine@hexbear.net 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Also, I demand the public banning of the account @WokePalpitoad@hexbear.net.

[–] PowerLurker@hexbear.net 7 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

mods won’t fulfill any of your requests, you’ve spoken truth to their malign power for far too long

[–] WokePalpatine@hexbear.net 4 points 13 hours ago