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PaperclipPerfector  2d ago (text post)   1945 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for February 13, 2026

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I think this forum needs to let people post images. Not just willy nilly, of course, because that would just turn this place into some kind of highbrow 4chan and that would be...

All right look if you guys were that based it would be happening already, so no not willy nilly. But I think that for every Quality Contribution someone successfully racks up, they should be able to post a reasonably SFW image of their choice one time. That's right, do a good enough effort post and you earn the right to clap back at someone with an image macro of Garfield smoking a blunt and telling them to deal with it. But only once per QC, so get back to work.

Like come on, do you want good posts or not? Do you want to motivate people or not? Everyone has that point where they wish it was either Twitter or an early 2000's message board so they could throw down just the right image macro. Harness this instinct. Wield this power.

Search your feelings. You know this would work. You could let someone trade multiple QCs for a temporary emoji pass. Sure you'd be allowing evil into the world, but only in exchange for an amount of good you yourselves determine and receive in advance.

Also I think we need much larger and more prominent avatars or whatever they're called now, so that people can do avatar bets over their petty differences of opinions instead of this retard shit where they start trying to figure out how to anonymously send each other 0.000015 bitcoins to settle their wager.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

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>he doesn't already have his own website to upload images to

ngmi

How do you upload images to TheMotte?

There's an "insert image" button directly underneath the comment-input box.

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