• Rustmilian@lemmy.worldOP
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      3 days ago

      That’s not a shitpost, that’s a basic meme that took effort to make and come up with.

      ^Actual shitpost, AI generated images with text slapped on it. Another example is the common “all Linux users are femboys” memes.

      “aggressively, ironically, and trollishly poor quality… cause the biggest reaction with the least effort. …internet mockery… …absurd…”

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shitposting

      My post that was unfairly removed was intentionally provocative (Oxford), and ironically, trollishly poor quality (Wikipedia), just as the example shitposts provided are.

      provocative ≠ inflammatory

      Provocative : causing annoyance, anger, or another strong reaction, especially deliberately.
      Inflammatory : deliberately arousing or intended to arouse angry or violent feelings.

      (Oxford)

      Provocative in the context of shitpost essentially means deliberately causing a strong reaction usually via exaggeration for comedic effect.
      While Inflammatory just means to deliberately insight violence.

      Another shitpost for example :

      This meets : intentionally provocative (Oxford), and ironically, trollishly poor quality and absurd (Wikipedia).

  • 𝔼𝕩𝕦𝕤𝕚𝕒@lemmy.world
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    That’s weird so like people can just report a non-rulebrraking post and even if it doesn’t break rules “sorry not enough up votes to make it worth saving”

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      The funny thing is, it had over 100 up votes and only a handful of down votes. People must have been spamming.

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    That definition is not a good definition. A shitpost should be somewhat funny, not just purely garbage. For example if you post porn off topic, thats not a shitpost, thats just porn.