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offacue [TotalFark]  
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2021-05-10 5:58:27 PM  
drtfa
 
Hankie Fest [OhFark]  
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2021-05-10 6:06:28 PM  
In before the "I deleted FB a long time ago because I'm a super double edgelord" comments.
 
veale728  
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2021-05-10 6:06:58 PM  
No, TFers just read the headline when submitting
 
2021-05-10 6:07:28 PM  

offacue: drtfa


You did?

/ dNrtfa
 
2021-05-10 6:09:29 PM  

Hankie Fest: In before the "I deleted FB a long time ago because I'm a super double edgelord" comments.


At this point?  More like, "Because I have an ounce of sense."  It doesn't exactly take Lord Gillette of the Katanalands to figure that one out the last few years.  Federal hearings are sort of a clue.
 
2021-05-10 6:09:37 PM  
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foo monkey [TotalFark]  
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2021-05-10 6:10:39 PM  
I trust Facebook to make the moral and correct decision in this matter.
 
2021-05-10 6:14:42 PM  

Hankie Fest: In before the "I deleted FB a long time ago because I'm a super double edgelord" comments.


But not before anyone says that they never had FB to begin with, like me.
:-p

*sashays away whistling*
 
2021-05-10 6:14:50 PM  
I found a new articles that PROVES that lizard people are taking over the senate, congress, the white house!

They don't want you to know this...

Read it's now, before the article is removed!!!

https://is.gd/WVZvnI
 
Pigeonhole  
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2021-05-10 6:18:13 PM  
Once the person answers the prompt to continue sharing, I'd like to see if the person who received the shared link is also notified whether the user actually read the article first. One more way to track who is sending you crap.

/I don't use facebook
 
Heamer [BareFark]  
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2021-05-10 6:19:45 PM  

Hankie Fest: In before the "I deleted FB a long time ago because I'm a super double edgelord" comments.


I got rid of Facebook in 2011, not because I'm an edgelord, but because it really just ran its course for me. It was neat for a few years, then it just...wasn't.

Fark is the closest thing to social media I've got these days.
 
2021-05-10 6:20:07 PM  
Clicking the link really limits your options for a response.  It's always a bad idea.
 
TheReject  
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2021-05-10 6:21:48 PM  
I was just trying to share a link about a new  CCB political group. Lemonparty I think they call themselves.
 
2021-05-10 6:22:59 PM  
I know people are gullible, and I assumed that's why they shared links.

I had never really considered that these snot for brains were sharing stuff they hadn't read, but, it makes perfect sense.

Now I feel bad for not realising the obvious. :(
 
Bslim  
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2021-05-10 6:44:16 PM  

Hankie Fest: In before the "I deleted FB a long time ago because I'm a super double edgelord" comments.


Sooo, lemme see if I got ya, Holmes.
To not be a "super double edgelord" one HAS to be on Facebook.
That's what you said.
 
phishrace  
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2021-05-10 6:53:11 PM  

Hankie Fest: In before the "I deleted FB a long time ago because I'm a super double edgelord" comments.


I never had a FB account.

/Super Triple Edgelord
 
2021-05-10 6:54:51 PM  
Facebook: "Hey look, it looks like we're doing something"
Users: "grumble, this is obnoxious" [behavior remains unmodified, now with one additional step]
[time passes]
Facebook (page 50 of latest update log): "We're making this feature optional in response to user feedback"
[time]
Facebook: *removes feature*
[2022 election buildup]
 
2021-05-10 7:03:22 PM  
I'd like a version of that rule applied to Fark. Nothing says you're especially stupid like posting a comment that has nothing to do with tfa, and lots of people who also dnrtfa sucking up by smarting that comment.
Happens way too often in Pol tab, and I don't even see much of that.
Hilarious?
 
2021-05-10 7:15:51 PM  

Bslim: Hankie Fest: In before the "I deleted FB a long time ago because I'm a super double edgelord" comments.

Sooo, lemme see if I got ya, Holmes.
To not be a "super double edgelord" one HAS to be on Facebook.
That's what you said.


You're not too good at reading comprehension, are you?
I said that to not be a super double edgelord, one needs to not gloat about how they used to be on FB but no longer are because they're cool.
 
phishrace  
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2021-05-10 7:27:43 PM  

lindalouwho: I'd like a version of that rule applied to Fark. Nothing says you're especially stupid like posting a comment that has nothing to do with tfa, and lots of people who also dnrtfa sucking up by smarting that comment.
Happens way too often in Pol tab, and I don't even see much of that.
Hilarious?


For me, it depends on the topic of the article. If there's a death, somebody is put in a hospital or someone gets arrested, I'm generally going to read before commenting. If it's about Elon Musk, fark reading the article, I'm jumping in with my guns blazing.
 
jaytkay [OhFark]  
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2021-05-10 7:31:48 PM  

Hankie Fest: In before the "I deleted FB a long time ago because I'm a super double edgelord" comments.


I never had a Facebook account

/ Old
// Friendless
 
2021-05-10 7:49:51 PM  

phishrace: Hankie Fest: In before the "I deleted FB a long time ago because I'm a super double edgelord" comments.

I never had a FB account.

/Super Triple Edgelord


Same here. Fark is all the (anti-)social media I need.
 
2021-05-10 7:54:55 PM  

Hankie Fest: In before the "I deleted FB a long time ago because I'm a super double edgelord" comments.


Edgelord? I think you mean a double gourmet artisanal organic hipster.
 
2021-05-10 7:59:09 PM  

lindalouwho: I'd like a version of that rule applied to Fark. Nothing says you're especially stupid like posting a comment that has nothing to do with tfa, and lots of people who also dnrtfa sucking up by smarting that comment.
Happens way too often in Pol tab, and I don't even see much of that.
Hilarious?


This comment has no place in a discussion about Nazi cats trained in judo who are running drugs from the Golden Triangle into Luxembourg (which is what I assume this article was about).  You need to take this kind of negative comment over to the politics tab where it belongs, dude!
 
2021-05-10 8:18:12 PM  

Hankie Fest: In before the "I deleted FB a long time ago because I'm a super double edgelord" comments.


Do you need a TV for this book of faces?

I only ask because I don't even own a TV!
 
alex10294  
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2021-05-10 8:19:46 PM  
I don't think it should prompt them.  It should just put the number of minutes they spent reading it next to the article name when other people see it. Unfortunately, that might hit people who have read the article somewhere else, but it's a small price to pay. "India black mold deaths reach 40 million (23 seconds)". "come on guys, if we all work togeather, we can tackle this important issue!!! Emoji emoji."
 
2021-05-10 8:35:12 PM  

Miss_Dorothy_Kilgallen: lindalouwho: I'd like a version of that rule applied to Fark. Nothing says you're especially stupid like posting a comment that has nothing to do with tfa, and lots of people who also dnrtfa sucking up by smarting that comment.
Happens way too often in Pol tab, and I don't even see much of that.
Hilarious?

This comment has no place in a discussion about Nazi cats trained in judo who are running drugs from the Golden Triangle into Luxembourg (which is what I assume this article was about).  You need to take this kind of negative comment over to the politics tab where it belongs, dude!


I do what I want.
Dude.

/ lol
 
Jedekai [OhFark]  
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2021-05-10 8:41:24 PM  

AppleOptionEsc: Hankie Fest: In before the "I deleted FB a long time ago because I'm a super double edgelord" comments.

Edgelord? I think you mean a double gourmet artisanal organic hipster.


...how about, "Younger than 40, on the Oldnet at 7, ran HTML at 10, member of Zophar.net since 1998 (Hi! I was NN­jaK­night[nospam-﹫-backwards]loa*com and ran the entire Sega-CD and 32x boards!), was one of the 40-some-odd people that MANUALLY decrypted Sega Saturn headers... and uploaded the first version of Fighting Vipers that WORKED... and I owned the fastest computer in Billings, MT until KLEZ ate it."

Oh, and here's why my Facebook exists: Games. I don't even need it now, thanks to Google Play. It's been a zombie account since... yeah.

No posts. Ever. Facebook was Pure Evil from Day 1. Because I gained wisdom from one sentence:

"If you are on a commercial website that's not selling a product... *YOU* are the product."
-Tom, from MySpace
/Moot told 4Chan the same thing, one of his last 'soapbox posts' was that as evil as 4Chan can be... they will ALWAYS know who's really full of shiat. 'Cack Zuckerberg' is the very real Final Boss of The Internet; "We're altruistic and evil... that guy is Hitler-Stalin evil."

//I called it 'The Urine Stream of Consciousness'... I also said "it's the greatest spy tool in History ever powered by the mark, themselves".

///...IN 2012!
 
lilistonic [BareFark]  
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2021-05-10 8:50:11 PM  
So, I used to do this: read an article, find it on Twitter to share to a crowd, move along. But Twitter would be all nah, you didn't read that. And I'm like you don't know everything I do, you hopelessly linear tool, step off.

With Facebook sometimes I do share an article I've read, but I definitely never read it there first.
 
Vtimlin  
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2021-05-10 8:55:38 PM  
Delete Facebook
 
2021-05-10 9:12:57 PM  
All social media should have a Clippy-like character come up automatically as soon as various keywords are typed, and the character says something like, "It looks like you're about to post something farking stupid/racist/sexist/homophobic/generally offensive. Are you sure you wanna do that? Do you have a job you'd like to keep? If so, maybe you should take this opportunity to delete all that dumb shiat. Here's a cute kitten picture, just post that instead." If you ignore it and keep typing, it pops up again and says, "One last chance not to become the latest viral asshole." If you continue, it pops up one last time and says, "Ok, but you can't say nobody warned you."
 
2021-05-10 10:04:08 PM  

Smelly Pirate Hooker: All social media should have a Clippy-like character come up automatically as soon as various keywords are typed, and the character says something like, "It looks like you're about to post something farking stupid/racist/sexist/homophobic/generally offensive. Are you sure you wanna do that? Do you have a job you'd like to keep? If so, maybe you should take this opportunity to delete all that dumb shiat. Here's a cute kitten picture, just post that instead." If you ignore it and keep typing, it pops up again and says, "One last chance not to become the latest viral asshole." If you continue, it pops up one last time and says, "Ok, but you can't say nobody warned you."


Strangely, I don't see farking stupid/racist/sexist/homophobic/generally offensive posts. Maybe it's because I don't have stupid/racist/sexist/homophobic/generally offensive friends.

AKA, maybe it's not the platform that's the problem, but the people you connect with on the platform.
 
2021-05-10 10:46:37 PM  

lindalouwho: I'd like a version of that rule applied to Fark. Nothing says you're especially stupid like posting a comment that has nothing to do with tfa, and lots of people who also dnrtfa sucking up by smarting that comment.
Happens way too often in Pol tab, and I don't even see much of that.
Hilarious?


You can't make me RTFA! I didn't even read this one!
 
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