Raepdog1988 Posted:

Thats the single worst idea ever. To have a fun app, running with a trolling game..

..thats more than a little oversight.

we think many of the same thoughts friend.

ChilePepino Posted:

Can a moderator/admin please make a list of what constitutes “spamming”. I got banned because of a cultural refference that, though the person who voted me probably got it, an admin/moderator which name will remain covered, didn’t and thought I was spamming.

Please, I’m even making WWWWWWWWWWW entries but I’m starting to think of not playing again (thus not giving any of my money to you) if I don’t know what is proper to say.

CZ Customer Service here. The following is bannable:

• Nonsense/gibberish/illegible strings of characters (obvious)

• Repeatedly and deliberately posting nonsensical, unrelated captions with the intent to derail or spoil the game by creating obvious “dump” entries*

• Repeatedly posting identical entries or variations of the same entry regardless of relevance

*Intent is of course harder to prove, when you see it over and over, it becomes pretty obvious.

You got caught for a combination of the second and third points. Not only was your caption irrelevant, but it had already won previously. Moreover, I witnessed you using that exact same caption in an earlier round that day; by repeating it, you’re making your identity obvious, which could be construed as an attempt at cheating.

I’m going to make one final clarification: INCIT is a captioning contest. That’s what we’re trying to enforce here. That means you have to make clever captions for the image presented to you.

Maybe the criticisms are right: Maybe INCIT’s format isn’t that funny after all. “Clever” doesn’t always mean “gut-bustingly funny.” It means you’re able to think abstractly and originally. It means you’re able to surprise the reader with something they didn’t think of, and summarize the concept in a witty, concise way.

One could argue that people find ”Log in to see images!” funny because it ****es off other players; it’s absurd/avant-garde/anti-humor; it’s a sort of FWZ reference that can be used in any situation. However, none of this is appropriate for a captioning contest that depends on wit.

The best part is, you don’t need to be born with any innate skills to be able to be good at this. You have to think about your entry. You can observe how other people do it. You can practice and see how people respond. That’s the “game” part of it — not just dumping nonsense and seeing how far you can go without getting banned.

I hope this answers your question.

Wouldn’t work, neither of them would be funny.

Fran Posted:

Why aren’t memes also bannable then? They’re not original; they cause a ****storm on sites like 4chan and Urban Dictionary then spread to somewhere else. As a reader I rarely feel surprised whenever I see a meme. Yet it wins because memes make mouth-breathing retards laugh at an overused joke.

That’s what makes people like Orb and PhineasPoe good INCIT players overall, they knew how to be funny AND clever without using memes.

Fran Posted:

Why aren’t memes also bannable then? They’re not original; they cause a ****storm on sites like 4chan and Urban Dictionary then spread to somewhere else. As a reader I rarely feel surprised whenever I see a meme. Yet it wins because memes make mouth-breathing retards laugh at an overused joke.

That’s what makes people like Orb and PhineasPoe good INCIT players overall, they knew how to be funny AND clever without using memes.

A meme is just a reference to a concept that other people might recognize. If you ban for making references to anything that’s ever existed, that’s a pretty slippery slope. Soon you’ll have to ban for using dictionary words. And then what do you get? “WWWW” will be the only allowable entry.

You’re not going to believe this, but some people have even claimed that Forumwarz itself occasionally makes use of internet memes in its own content. You might even say it’s one of the attractions of having a game that parodies the internet! Log in to see images!

So yeah. Banning for memes…that’s ridiculous. The day we ban for “You’re doing it wrong” is the day we ban for “JB is gay” jokes. It’s not gonna happen.

BTW, I’m not even going to point out the irony that someone who disdains “mouth-breathing retards” for laughing at an overused joke just bought an emoticon for ”Log in to see images!

i mean really if you want to spend all of your time finding slight flaws in internet games use it for better use like join a political party or something

So that means one has to be funny or gett banned? or that the cultural refference has to be about Oprah so everyone can understand it?

CHALKONEUPTODALORD Posted:

Apparently. Mine were relevant to the picture, but they weren’t funny to the untrained eye so I got banned.

That or they got bumhurt by the truth.

Log in to see images!

are you kidding me? did you seriously got banned for that, it was actually a pretty funny winner.

Jalapeno Bootyhole Posted:

A meme is just a reference to a concept that other people might recognize. If you ban for making references to anything that’s ever existed, that’s a pretty slippery slope. Soon you’ll have to ban for using dictionary words. And then what do you get? “WWWW” will be the only allowable entry.

You’re not going to believe this, but some people have even claimed that Forumwarz itself occasionally makes use of internet memes in its own content. You might even say it’s one of the attractions of having a game that parodies the internet! Log in to see images!

So yeah. Banning for memes…that’s ridiculous. The day we ban for “You’re doing it wrong” is the day we ban for “JB is gay” jokes. It’s not gonna happen.

BTW, I’m not even going to point out the irony that someone who disdains “mouth-breathing retards” for laughing at an overused joke just bought an emoticon for ”Log in to see images!

1. WWWWW is a meme.

2. When pronouncing the letter ‘W,’ ones mouth is almost entirely closed.

ChilePepino Posted:

also yeah jb, it’s excellent customer service to laugh at what people use their bp, for which they gave money to you.

Yeah, I just won’t be buying BPs anymore.