Fark
A guy in Europe gets The Joker as his drivers’ license picture. New Jersey puts a limit on how many squirrels its residents can eat. A waitress wins the lottery with a scratch ticket some customer left as a tip. The French government decides to make its UFO files public.
These are some of the weird and often funny stories you’ll see on Fark. Fark is a kind of “news of the weird,” or in many cases just plain stupid, website. The categories for news stories are things like Stupid, Dumbass, Unlikely, Strange and Asinine.
Fark started off as a personal website, and as the owner added more and more of the strange news stories he found, it turned into a community. Now, it’s one of the most popular social bookmarking sites.
Fark has articles, videos and audio. The links are listed under broad categories for news, sports, entertainment and more. All the stories share the fact that they’re ridiculous, odd, offbeat, or just plain funny.
You can post whatever you’d like to Fark, but they warn you not to put anything that’s off topic. Fark is pretty heavily moderated, so if you hit it with something that looks like spam or random promotion of your website/blog, you’ll get banned. They want real content, not stuff that obviously just directs people somewhere else.
The main guideline for posting is not to link anything that’s “not safe for work,” like graphic or sexual images. They also warn you about linking to dubious sites where, for example, the link you posted might change to something else. This will get you thrown off.
If you take a look at the front page of Fark, you’ll get a good idea of the kind of weird and funny stuff they like. The only guideline they give you on what kind of content to submit is “Make sure the submission is at least somewhat humorous.” That’s the bottom line at Fark.
When you sign up for Fark, you can make your profile public or private, and there are settings such as “ignore,” so that you can get rid of people that bother you.
If you’re a member of Fark, you can vote on stories you like. One of the categories along the top of the site is the “Recent Top 25,” where you can see what other Fark members are reading and laughing about.
They don’t have strict rules about posting comments, but they don’t want you “trolling” or otherwise harassing other members. The comments are sometimes as funny as the linked articles!
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