We are almost three weeks into this crazy experiment to see if we can grow the funny community here on steemit. So far, I am pretty happy with the results. I think the number and quality of funny posts have increased. In addition, we now have ways to find some humorous posts. It's a slow process but at least it is a start.

But we could do better.

Much better.

How?

First, my apologies to @Trafalgar. That guy was naturally building up the punchline tag and then I came in here like a bull in a china shop and started stepping on everything. I may be a well intentioned bull, but I'm a bull nonetheless less. So let's make sure that we fix my mistake and only use the "punchline" tag for short funny posts.

Oh look at this delightful little humorous community.

The "punchline" tag is "meant to be for very short, impactful one liners and/or memes". So let's use it for that.

Here are the goals of the initiative:

We want to increase the number, quality and types of comedic posts on steemit.

How can we do that?

1. Let's respect the punchline tag and keep those very short quick laughs. That one is going well, let's keep building it. If you see someone mis-using the tag, make a respectful suggestion to change it. I don't think we need to start flagging anyone yet.

2. Let's figure out what types of other humorous content we want to encourage and come up with tags for those.

So far I can think of stand-up (both original and links), sketches, songs, and stories/longer jokes.

Are there other types we want to encourage?

What tags can we use?

Stand-up can just be "stand-up" (Open to suggestions)

Sketches can be "sketch" (Open to suggestions)

What about stories/longer jokes like Hive account@meesterboom, Hive account@theregularguy, and Hive account@weirdnews produce? What tag would those fall under? We can't use "stories" because that would get mixed up with fiction.

3.All of us need to hunt for funny material and link it in the daily "What's so funny?" post. We have a very strong and funny base now. The next step is to find more talent. Or perhaps recruit some of your own funny friends here and link their posts for all of us to see. I will keep rewarding the comments with links to other funny posts.

4.I'd like to see people put together a video of the funny steemians already here. Can we pull that off?

What suggestions do you have? How can we accelerate the growth of funny content on steemit?

None of this would be possible without Hive account@surfyogi. He is allowing us to use his SP to help spark this growth. The guy is a visionary. He sees big things in the future of comedy on the platform. (actually HUGE things). Let's see if we can start making his vision a reality.

Thank you Hive account@surfyogi!