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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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.
I’m trying to imagine what you mean but I just can’t picture it.
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”.
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It works just fine in text.
You can write it in text, but it works much better as a picture.
You don’t have the context of it being at a “meeting”, and saying that to guitars. And adding that to a text joke makes it a bit too long and convoluted. In picture you just need one balloon, and it’s perfect.
I don’t think it’s worth to ban those type of posts just for fear of turning into a generic shitpost community, so far the only non-dad jokes (as a category) I’ve seen upvoted in here are the couple “jokes about dads” that have been posted recently, and if they start getting spammed too much we can restrict those specifically.
Supported. I’ve seen more than enough posts just consisting of screenshots of some joke from elsewhere. Bonus for each idiot who takes a portrait mode screenshot of a landscape mode posting, wasting additional space at the top and bottom.
I partially agree. If it’s just a picture of two people telling a joke I don’t care for it. They are also harder to search for to be sure it’s not a repost. Some images are good though because they are sight gags. But a proper title and\or flair can help with that. For me the biggest part is searchability by keywords in the joke and that’s not possible with images
… that wasn’t funny at all!
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.
Your two first examples are literally a screenshot of a text joke.
The one with the buckets is a loose fit, IMO.
I get your point, I just think the examples you picked work better as counter examples.
Sure maybe the one with Cher could do without the picture of her, but i think it enhances the joke.
The one of the text with dad is one of the highest upvoted posts in this community, and just contact name and the position of the iMessage bubbles tells so much, that had it been described in text only, it wouldn’t be a good joke IMO.
I acknowledge your differing opinion but remain steadfast in my convictions.
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.
Personally, when its an image that is an actual dad joke I find them amusing.
I think a much better requirement would be that the image must actually be a dad joke. There’s been one or two I’ve seen recently that definitely tiptoes the line between “a dad does this” and “dad joke”
but I also think looking at the recent jokes, I much prefer them in image form over text form as it adds context that normally would have to be added via words.
Like I do agree pictures that are strictly text and add no other context are annoying but, for the most part the images usually add to the joke.
I don’t get it
here here
Where?
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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We’re HARDLY getting enough posts in the community to be complaining about new content.
Quality over quantity.
Then upvote the quality stuff and downvote the crappy stuff. The assumption that images are automatically low quality is specious to begin with - plenty of other commentors here have shown examples of good image posts.
And I, in another comment, showed how image posts could be rendered in text. I also wrote a much expanded opinion about the role of moderators vs. the community, too, but whatever. Because upvotes/downvotes don’t have much to do with the community or fitness. Surely you’ve noticed that things get upvoted that are in the wrong community all the time, in which case why even have communities?
image posts could be rendered in text
Yes, but that doesn’t really address the assumption that text is better than images by default. IMO your example loses much of the punch that makes the image funny.
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.
Where joke?
