Not only are image posts less accessible, they’re much lower effort. This community was much better when it was just structured jokes as text posts. Now it’s getting posts with the less than pointless “rule” crap and it’s slowly becoming yet another s#%$post community and losing what made it special.
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I’m still keeping my stance of “if it’s groan/facepalm-inducing, it’s a dad joke and it fits”.
This one, for example, is a fitting dadjoke and it works much better in picture form.
As long as posts respect that, they’re fine by me. There’s still a distinction between dad jokes and more generic “memes/shitposts”.
What if it is an image that looks like something that has been faxed a dozen times?
We call that antique.
Like a fox without a tail?
How about not inages of text but still allow images if the dad joke is visual?
Most could be explained in text, and should be in alt text, but sometimes the image really does add a lot.
Exactly. Like how can you even tell if it’s a dad joke anymore? It used to be a parent.
This is a safe space. All parents are dads here regardless of equipment (or preference).
Wholeheartedly agree on everyone being welcome. My comment was itself a dad joke in its phrasing (a parent / apparent).
It was not a parent.
It used to though.
We’re HARDLY getting enough posts in the community to be complaining about new content.
I think it’s a broad generalization, and there are some jokes that only really work in image form (example 1 / example 2). Even the post I think you’re referring to wouldn’t really work without the image (except the random cat isn’t really necessary).
If anything I’d say it’s nice when the title text is setup to a joke, with the content (text or image) being the punchline. I personally try to come up with my own punchline before checking the description, so the format really works out. Agreed that the “rule” titles are low effort and belong in !196@lemmy.blahaj.zone but i just don’t upvote those personally.
it’s nice when the title text is setup to a joke, with the content (text or image) being the punchline. I personally try to come up with my own punchline before checking the description, so the format really works out.
This is the best form of this community, imo. I still think images are bad even in the post body, but at least it’d stem the meme-ification of the posts. The main problem I see building is that image posts are easy and popular on the front page, where votes are given regardless of community, and it won’t take much attention seeking to leave this community a shell of what it was.
Is this a granddad joke?
Back in my day, if you wanted images on the internet, it would have to be with ASCII art.
This reminds me of my typing class in junior high where we made ascii art on our typewriters; typically around holidays as a means of keeping us busy.
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