Incit

Incit (officially capitalized as INCIT, pronounced "Incite") is a multiplayer metagame where you compete with other users to create "inspiring" posters.

Note: INCIT is currently in beta test mode and we are collecting feedback

Play INCIT Now or browse previous winners in the Hall of ****.

How to Play

Each round of INCIT is divided into two stages: submitting followed by voting.

During the submitting stage, you have 3 minutes and 15 seconds to come up with a title and motivational message for the provided image. There must be at least five submissions into to play. If there aren't enough submissions to play, you must wait for more people to join until the necessary amount is reached.

After the submissions are in, you must anonymously vote on other people's submissions. If you do not vote, your submission won't count in the final tally and will show up as "Disqualified".

The poster who receives the most votes wins, unless there is more than a two-way tie! Pretty simple, isn't it?

Glossary of INCIT terms

Dumpvoting: To dumpvote is to vote for a crappy entry in the hopes of avoiding voting oneself out of a win. Of course, this may backfire, as some people may actually LIKE this submission.

Out of a win: When a person votes for a submission, only to discover that their vote placed that submission ahead of theirs when it otherwise would have tied.

Three way or Four way: Refers to a three or four way tie, in which there is no winner.

INCIT Commandments

The following are not official rules, but they are suggestions that will increase your chances of winning and improve your Hall of **** score

• Correct spelling and grammar, although not essential, are extremely useful in luring votes. Many a time I have deigned not to vote for a grossly misspelled entry that I probably would’ve voted for had it not looked like a retard wrote it.

• Although referencing a meme may get you a few wins, it also makes your soul die inside. Be clever.

• Even if you’re a competitor to the level where you’d pay someone to kneecap Orb coming out of a bathroom, don’t dumpvote to help yourself win. It doesn’t work and it ends up rewarding ****ty entries. The only thing worse than losing to a dumpvote is the shame of winning with a blank entry because of a dumpvote. If you have to resort to dumpvoting, your entry's probably ****ty anyway.

• DO NOT REUSE WINNERS ON THE SAME PIC. I cannot stress this enough. The point of INCIT is to be clever within a time limit. Using a previous winner is cheating. It’s like bringing in Carlos Zambrano to pitch on your little league team. You’re taking the chance of winning away from someone who made an actual good joke by luring votes away with a proven vote-getter. IT’S REALLY male reproductive organY. You can reuse the same caption on a different pic, or you can reuse a loser until it wins, but reusing a winner is INEXCUSABLE. If you disagree GO SUCK A WARTHOG’S THROBBING male reproductive organ.

• DO NOT REUSE WINNERS THAT YOU DID NOT WRITE. This is the only thing you can do worse than reuse your own winners.

• Don’t make/vote for entries simply because they reference something you like. References can be a great tool for improving a joke, but a reference without a joke to go with it is not enough. Similarly, racism/homophobia without a joke is not enough.

• Try to make entries that suggest little stories. The best ones are the ones that make miniature movies in your mind.

• Don’t go for the obvious joke. This is not really a rule, but more of a suggestion on how to be better. Even going for the obvious joke, if the execution is good, can win and deserve to win. However, it’s more likely that your uproarious “SURPRISE bumSECKS” entry will be joined by about 7 more identical ones. Be creative and clever (as much as you can, at least).

• Zoom in on the damn pics. Half the time there’s text or something that would make a really good joke, or in some cases is the point of the image. Just click on it, you lazy bastards. It takes maybe five seconds of your overly long time period to type in a caption, SO DO IT.

• Meta-joke golden rule: If it’s not going to be funny in the Hall of ****, don’t make it. Some metajokes will be funny out of context as long they know it’s from INCIT. Ones about the bot taking forever or INCIT reusing pics WILL NOT BE. Just because it's funny to the 7 people on INCIT right then doesn't mean it's actually funny.

• If you don't have anything to say besides 'WTF?', then you're better off not entering at all. The point of INCIT is not to marvel at how bizarre the picture is, it's to provide a funny explanation for why it is bizarre.

• If people start begging for that one last submission, and you still haven't put anything in, submit a POS helper. Even putting 'Don't vote' or just a period in both areas adds a submission to the count and allows the game to continue.

Tips and tricks

• If you are unable to submit or vote, quickly refresh and try again.

• If you get an error message saying "Invalid title" or "Invalid motivational text", then you've probably used a character not permitted for INCIT submissions. Prohibited characters include: &, $, ", +, =, %.

• You can't use quotation marks ("), but you can use two apostrophes ('') as a substitute. **** if I know why.

• Brevity is the soul of wit. Try to be as concise as possible. If you have trouble fitting your idea into 70 characters, consider abandoning it and thinking of another idea. If your joke is too good to let go, remember that there is (almost) always a way to reword it and make it fit.

• Do not post if you came here from ED due to an advert. This means you, Goatse II, and your little posse.