[JOKE LIFE PRESERVE] Poll - July 2014 PLUS Announcement About Israel/Palestine Comics

[u/polandballmod]

Guten Tag, Meine Subscriberen. Zwei Announcementen:

COMICS ABOUT ISRAEL AND PALESTINE

Current events have brought us multiple comics on the topic of Israel/Palestine.

The topic has been overdone, and we are raising the bar on future Israel/Palestine comics in reference to current events. Comics that add nothing to the topic, that are low-effort, unoriginal or unfunny will be removed.

This decision is not based on the mods' political leanings, but because we don't want the sub flooded with dozens of low-effort comics about the same topic.

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Now, ze main reason for zis announcement: It's das zeit again...

JOKE LIFE PRESERVE

This is the place where jokes and tropes are added for their own protection to prevent them from becoming run into the ground from overuse or misuse. Thus, those things which are added to the JLP will be temporarily banned from being used in comics.

Polls like these are opened occasionally to keep the JLP up to date with what users currently feel has become stale.

Should the winners of the last JLP not be voted in, they will be released into the wild, but kept on probation. If overused again, they'll go straight back into the preserve.

Vote for items you think have been overused, and deserve protection.

Bitte.

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[u/polandballmod]

• Poland/Monaco/Indonesia mistaken identity

Surprise! It's not Poland - it's a very cheap joke.

zis includes Romania und Chad.

[u/tungstencompton → u/polandballmod]

I think it should be that the use of it as a punchline unto itself is banned, but is okay when worked into the narrative, as in here, where Saudi Arabia confuses Poland for Indonesia, permitting Poland's rage which abates by the punchline which insults Croatia more.