Friday Q&A

Questionable Derision

Greetings, crickets and trolls. Welcome to another edition of the Friday Q&A. This regular feature takes a look at issues facing Fark's Photoshop community. I'm glad you're here, assuming you aren't some asshole with the audacity to disagree with me. If so, my only request is that you kill yourself in the most painful way possible. Get back to me on that later, but for now let's continue with this week's questions.

Q: Has any more been said about the proposed changes to voting?

A: Last week's post detailed rumors of some brewing changes to the way we Farkers cast our votes. Fark contests, long the bastion of single option voting, may soon see the addition of multiple choices. I featured this rumor in a Q&A from last year, but the addition of an option allowing users to vote for entries as "crap" brings it to the forefront of discussion. No official word has yet been issued to address this wildly unpopular rumor, which drew the ire of pretty much everyone in the PSAEF.

Q: Why is multiple option voting worse than Hitler?

A: Let me just start by saying that a comparison to the Nazis is really unfair. I'd say this is more like a mix of Nazism and New Coke in its ill-conceived awfulness. I sincerely hope such a terrible idea never sees the light of day, because our contests have always been a haven from the trolls that infest Fark.

Q: What if they removed the "crap" option?

A: It's still the worst idea I've heard this year. Voting at Fark is something that doesn't need fixing, despite shrill complaints from some of us when we score poorly. I'll admit that I wasn't completely against the idea at first, but "best" and "funniest" are too vague. Even the addition of scaled (1-5 or 1-10 option) voting would be most unwelcome. There's always some asshole (with sand in his vagina) that will lowvote everything he sees, just to be a dick.

That's all for this time, gentle reader. Thanks again for stopping by. Whilst I try not to put too much faith into half-remembered rumors from hungover forum-goers, these proposed changes could potentially be disastrous to our community. Let's hope it's just something Drew tells Photoshoppers to troll them. Though the lack of an official response could mean we're all about to have a "you'll get over it" moment.

Stay tuned for more irrational panic from the Doctor!