A word about posting satire

September 29, 2014 | Jim Robinson

[cva66snipe]

Remember how in Men in Black when they went to get the “real news” from the supermarket tabloids to find out about alien incidents that they needed to follow?

Sad part is some Tabloids are more credible now than the Liberal Press.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Yep, but John Semmens is a respected veteran Freeper and many of us look forward to his posts.

[freedumb2003]

>>I appreciate good satire. Thing is, most folks’ attempt at satire simply isn’t very good.<<

Admit it: John’s is (are?) good. I wish I had that kind of writing talent.

[denydenydeny]

Certainly there is no "LOOK AT ME!" factor involved.

As if.

100% agree. He seems only to want to get over on people here.

[freedumb2003]

>>You know, dirtbags can take advantage of that by just posting links, right? <<

Well, this solution seems pretty good then, eh?

Now, do you want to also put rules on my posts to f-chat?

[jpsb]

"If you post satire, please label it as "satire' in the title.

Big Bump!

[Enterprise]

"Instead of laughing at it, it just makes them angry. So… this is not a slam on those people."

I have experienced this a couple of times. It's an eye opener.

[KC Burke]

While a big fan of John’s satire, we don’t need to bag on hg. Humble has done a great job in ragging bloggers that post a sentence drawing hits for blogs which is just an abuse of Jim Robinson’s great site.

If we want humblegunnner to be effective at slowing down that overall abuse, and it was very widespread before he started calling it out, we have to understand the useful cop function it serves.

[DoughtyOne]

At least you know it’s MADD, truly MADD. LOL

[righttackle44]

We understand what you're saying, JR. You're right of course.

But it so much fun reading the enraged, foam-mouthed responses of the FR nuts who are roped into the semi-truthful, semi-untruthful posts.

[workerbee]

it hurts the forum when someone posts a phony inflammatory headline and story with almost no indication that it’s a fake story.

I know what you mean and I agree when it's a slipshod, silly attempt. But that is NOT Semmens kind of work, and he always labels it Satire appropriately.

IMO what is worse are the "hook" titles like "You won't believe what Joe Blow said today!" and the entire post is a video link. Stupid teaser garbage.

[humblegunner]

Semmens has posted here for years.

Clearly. Like a parasite.

And now he feels a need to "call the cops" or "tell teacher" on me.

What an awesome fellow.

Had he the power, I should expect an audit.

[trisham]

Who would have thought it, eh? Fora for bloggers to pimp their blogs...

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I could have sworn that the owner of this site was against that.

[mrsmith]

Love you John, it’s your sincere flatterers (imitators) that have necessitated this.
There were a couple good ones yesterday and it’s getting out of hand.

[Larry Lucido]

Some of it is. But some folks work too hard and the product gets stale, sadly.

Everybody isn’t P.J. O’Rourke.

[denydenydeny]

John Semmens is not at fault that people don’t take the time to see the 3 or more places that it is labeled as satire.

But not in the title. Iowahawk, whose satires are actually funny, always posts "Iowahawk" in the title so people know what they are getting. I DO NOT APPRECIATE HAVING MY TIME WASTED BY CLICKING ON A TITLE THAT APPEARS LEGITIMATE ONLY TO FIND A MADE-UP STORY. It's rude and deceptive.

[workerbee]

I agree to a point. But Semmens isn’t some newbie troll, he’s been here a long time and has become an accepted part of this forum. MANY FReepers look forward to what he comes up with next. Someone (not nec. hg) with a particular dislike to either his writing or to him, personally, is not reason to start having his stuff pulled.

[Will88]

Do you mean that Eric Holder is NOT going to JP Morgan Chase for $77 million per year? LOL

I read that and at first assumed the $77 was a typo and should have been $7 million.

[smokingfrog]

I enjoy reading the satire bits. But with the loony tunes running the country, it’s sometime difficult to tell the difference between the satire and our unfortunate reality.

[DJlaysitup]

I have a friend who routinely sends me bogus political emails (and he gets all excited)...then a few hours later I get another email advising that the previous one wasn’t true.