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# What is
Fnord's Law?
(jacko_here just here has some ducks, Sun 18 Jan 2004, 23:56, archived)
# a suffusion of yellow
(I helped save b3ta! Dr. Kitteny Berk almost certainly drunk, Sun 18 Jan 2004, 23:56, archived)
# with a hint
of magenta
(I helped save b3ta! Jinxx has been away a long time, Sun 18 Jan 2004, 23:57, archived)
# Jamaica?
(jacko_here just here has some ducks, Sun 18 Jan 2004, 23:59, archived)
# the less time and effort you
put into making a picture, the more likely it is to find it's way onto the frontpage. the picture that you spend hours and hours on will be largely ignored.
(I helped save b3ta! 100% of Gibbon, Sun 18 Jan 2004, 23:58, archived)
# i noticed that too
(I helped save b3ta! Jinxx has been away a long time, Sun 18 Jan 2004, 23:59, archived)
# Ah yes.
I remember now. Ta for memorising my jogging.
(jacko_here just here has some ducks, Mon 19 Jan 2004, 0:00, archived)
# i'm an exception to this rule

all of my pics are largely ignored
(vork and burlap, Mon 19 Jan 2004, 0:01, archived)
# because they're all shit?
;)
(I helped save b3ta! 100% of Gibbon, Mon 19 Jan 2004, 0:02, archived)
# even you liked one of them

that's right, even YOU
(vork and burlap, Mon 19 Jan 2004, 0:04, archived)
# seems to me to depend
on who you know :)

/bitter and twisted

then again, its just a message board on t'internet after all

(I helped save b3ta! e.parsley, Mon 19 Jan 2004, 0:09, archived)
# yes that's more or less the bones of it.
look a bone... want it? a nice juicy bone? here ya go... here... come one.... there... go get it!

Now, erm yes. Fnord's Law is a way of explaining that taking hours crafting an image may not get much of a response (not just a front page but lots of woo's in general) because people probably won't know you took so long on getting a fiddly detail right or something).
Whereas if the joke or idea is so good that it just takes a small amount of cobbling together and a few minutes work then the idea is probably good enough to be simple and easy to get and find amusing and more people will 'get it'.
You may not think it's the funniest thing in the world but if you haven't spent long on it you probably haven't changed it much and it's that slightly askew version of the world that b3tans love so much :)

or something... been ages since i actually tried explaining it.
(I helped save b3ta! Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Mon 19 Jan 2004, 0:05, archived)
#
(I helped save b3ta! 100% of Gibbon, Mon 19 Jan 2004, 0:06, archived)
# aww
just saw your new flashy thing :)
(I helped save b3ta! Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Mon 19 Jan 2004, 0:15, archived)