Honestly, I was expecting something like this. Even those with good comedy skills have reduced their quality of dishing out what would crack the readers, simply because of the type of posts that's paraded on the hot list. It made me reduce my participation. Comedy can be, but shouldn't be necessarily what happened to you or someone, or must be a true life story, and that's what we see here all the time; one of the reason for decline in aquality. A stand up comedian cook stories that would make people laugh, and wrap it around something. The aim is to make people laugh, and anything outside that is gibberish.
A comedian said one of the difficult thing in life is to make people laugh, and truly, my dad is a case study. No matter how you crack a joke, someone like my dad would never laugh, but just tell him he's handsome, and you would see him laughing and smiling like a fool. (He's ugly)Lol
I really support the revamp that's about to take place. Most of our posts now lack flavour for which the community was created for. We are all in this together and all hands should be on deck, if we all want to keep the community alive.
Looking forward to seeing the new guidelines. One love
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