Friday Q&A

Questionable Definition

Greetings, crickets and trolls. Welcome to the last Q&A of our anniversary month. I know I promised more events as part of our celebration, but if you've been reading the secret coded messages I include in each post, you'd know that the festivities have only been postponed briefly. Keep checking back for further details. Right now I've got some questions to answer.

Q: Should Fark's management take a more active role in our community?

A: Not in my opinion. One complaint I've heard many times is that Drew and company seem to turn a blind eye to the photoshop community. Farkbacks go unanswered, and suggestions go ignored. The higher ups on the site seem to take a hands off approach when it comes to the photoshop contests. Personally, I'm glad they don't go mucking around with the formula. If the site's disastrous redesign and the subsequent creation of that hideous new tag are any indications, change at Fark is hardly a good thing. Except when they canceled FarkTV, of course.

Q: Should Drew have consulted a photoshopper to create the new Fail tag?

A: Certainly not. Fark photoshoppers already get enough disrespect on the Internet without being to blame for that monstrosity. There's actually some debate as to whether or not the new tag is intended to look like shit, but I personally don't care what the intention was. It's pretty clear that management dropped the ball here. They could have made an effort to match it to the existing tags, or even held a contest and let the users create it themselves. I believe the latter option would have been very popular. Instead we get handed down something that most photoshoppers resent, at least the ones who still visit the main page.

Q: Are the other Fark users enjoying the Fail tag?

A: They seem to be, but it doesn't have the popularity that some people expected. At one point today, the Fail tag was only used three times on the main page, while the Dumbass tag was used more than ten. Of course, the Stupid tag was only used once, so Fail has at least some popularity with the masses. However, even they have trouble denying that it looks terrible.

That's all for this time, gentle reader. Thanks so much for visiting the Clinic. As we bring our anniversary month to a close, I want to thank everyone who has helped make this blog possible, especially TheSniperZERO. His lame attempts at trolling made the first few months a blast. Hopefully, one of these days he'll decide to stop lurking. Then I can once again look forward to reading two or three dozen "anonymous" comments on each post about how I'm a waste of time.

Stay tuned for more wishful thinking from the Doctor!