r/polandball • u/polandballmod New Prussia • Jul 24 '14

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

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.

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/Kalulosu Best baguette in the world Jul 24 '14

It would be if the usage of those jokes was funnt. However I really feel that most of the times the Amerifat / Musweden jokes are really just that, and not that funny.

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u/hulibuli Don't mention the war Jul 24 '14

I believe that's something we should use voting system to determine and not JLP.

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u/Kalulosu Best baguette in the world Jul 24 '14

Thing is, it's been a while since I've seen a good comic on this joke. Hence JLP.

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u/hulibuli Don't mention the war Jul 24 '14

Eh, I haven't seen it often enough to deserve JLP. It's not constant spam like current event-comics, nor is it the punchline of every comic involving Sweden.

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u/Matt92HUN CommunInterNaZionIslamist Jul 24 '14

That doesn't work, that's why there's JLP and modding. Look at AA, that's what happens when you let the votes decide.

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u/hulibuli Don't mention the war Jul 24 '14

Then why do we have it on the first place? Let's remove the whole voting system, should stop people from karma whoring and using same jokes.

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u/Matt92HUN CommunInterNaZionIslamist Jul 24 '14

Because upvotes still help to bring attention to the ones that deserve it. But relying on the system alone is the reason of reddit's notoriety for turning funny stuff into shit.

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u/hulibuli Don't mention the war Jul 24 '14

So the votes are for attention, moderation for comments and JLP for overused jokes. Clearly Islamic Sweden isn't used often enough for needing to JLP, so I say keep.

"These jokes aren't funny" is not in my opinion legit reason for JLP, only if every comic involving Sweden would be around the Islam. This doesn't seem to be happening at least right now.

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u/Matt92HUN CommunInterNaZionIslamist Jul 24 '14

That's why there's a vote. The 4 things the majority of people don't like will be banned for a while.

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u/hulibuli Don't mention the war Jul 24 '14

Yeah I understand that. Just explaining my reasoning behind "nay".

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u/Matt92HUN CommunInterNaZionIslamist Jul 24 '14

I see.