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Ok, in truth it’s annoying yes…but it’s not offending anyone or making others sick like Cum on Toy was a while ago…
 
If people do not want to see these it’s easy enough to just hide it then themselves. Or just spawn a new tag called “exploited meme” so it’s easier to sort, hiding and the whole poll is kinda a waste of time IMO…
 
But I suppose I can see why people are annoyed by it, doesn’t really warrant this kind of attention but, meh…free speech and all that.

@SocDev  
(I asked people to try to be more creative than usual when slinging insults in this thread)

@ZORDON
 
wut

I’m not going to read all the way through the thread, but I think I have the notion of “creative insults” down, so here’s my try:
 
YOU TURD-SUCKERS SHIT-LICKERS DAMNED SONS OF THE WORST PUTRID SEWAGE PLANT, IN THE NAME OF NURGLE I DECLARE YOU SO IREDEEMABLE THAT YOU, MEAT BY-PRODUCTS OF CHOPPED LIVER FACTORIES, WILL ROAM THE CLEANEST HALLS OF CANTERLOT CASTLE AND BE LOOKED DOWN BY THE PRINCESSES THEMSELVES. NO LUNA OR CELESTIA FOR YOU. AND DON’T EVEN LET ME GET STARTED ON YOU, SETH. GO THE FUCK TO SLEEP.
 
That said, I don’t mind memes too much. They’re sometimes infuriating, especially “chickun”, but not really all that intrusive. So, I say, keep it as it is.

I honestly don’t mind the meme’s. SOme of them can be rather amusing… but I can see many of them getting old…fast in many cases. Hiding them is fine. I can always unfilter them out if I want to see them.

I demand an end to this bloody Waifu thief meme. Flash Sentry couldn’t steal first.

Not strict enough.  
I demand posters of “tv meme” be hounded out into the streets.

@Randomosaur  
The whole point is to avoid the clutter of them being there. Spoiling would do no good.

They should be spoilered by default. That way anons can still see them.

The unfortunate fact is that though we’d like show/hide toggles working for every tag and simple tracking of filter settings even for unregistered users, things that sound simple to implement may not necessarily be so, and more relevantly no matter how simple they are they still take devtime, of which we don’t have a lot to go around. These are things we have queued up as features to add but we don’t have them yet and we can’t really accurately say when we will - we’re quite open about this malarkey being a stopgap measure, and once we’ve got a better implementation of filtering that lets us do these things, all the default settings are going to be reexamined.

@TheLoneLampman  
Me likey your ideay

@TheLoneLampman  
Front page toggles would be awesome, yeah.

I’ve already suggested a show/hide meme toggle. I personally think it’d be the best solution overall…

I have a lot of these filtered out in my settings:
 
awesome cutie mark, chickun, conspiracy lyra, make it happen, nature is so fascinating, this is beautiful, tv meme, twiscream, wut if gummy wuz a meme
 
Basically every time I get overly annoyed by a new one, I add it to the list. Would definitely love to see these hidden by default.

@Pryson  
There are 2 issues with that:  

@Pryson
 
If that was going to happen, we wouldn’t be having this discussion in the first place.

@Pryson  
In “Their” Tag hidden box.

@Heroine Addict  
Well I guess it does make since. But people really need to learn to block the Meme / Forced meme tag.

@Pryson  
Oh, so it’s more of a “not putting them on the same level” kind of thing. I can understand that. Still, I don’t think spoilering/hiding is about “how offensive it is” as much as “how easily visible people want it”. After all, spoilers and fluffy ponies aren’t exactly like sexual or grim pictures either.

Spoilering seems like kind of not an option. The problem isn’t that people are offended by memes and would rather their eyes not fall upon the filth. The problem is that it’s clutter and makes it more difficult to find what people are looking for. Spoilering it would change the clutter of memes to a clutter of spoiler images, which solves no problem either of the sides of argument has.

But it would be a good idea to spoiler it like Heroine Addict said. Hiding it won’t do very good against the internet.

@Background Pony  
Still we would be blocking memes like it would be an explicit, merch sexpoilation, grotesque, or fluffy pony grimdark tag.

@Background Pony  
That reminds me, the Trixie button needs to be up and running all year ’round.

@Pryson  
We hide the porn too, or at least spoiler it. I can’t say the same about the “cat” tag, though.

@Pryson  
If we hide the memes then there’ll be more room for porn and cats… and cat porn. This seems like a good plan.
 
j/k