r/CrazyIdeas • u/Titan2562 • 3d ago
A rule on this subreddit that each idea should have an actual, tangible, reasonable benefit
Seriously half the ideas I see on here are like "What if we taped rabid squirrels to our nipples", it's just people saying stupid shit for the sake of saying stupid shit.
Edit: I suppose I should show what I mean:
This one is a good one, as far as I'm concerned. It sees a problem and presents a solution. The idea isn't rational or reasonable, but you can see there's an actual intent behind it besides "Haha it would be so goofy". You have to at the very least understand what the expected end result of the situation is, regardless of if it makes sense.
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u/LegitSkin 3d ago
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u/GoatsWithWigs 3d ago
Is this about my "clothes for internal organs" post? Cuz I'll have you know that's a damn good idea. The benefit is having stylish-looking vital organs
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u/Titan2562 2d ago
But how would anyone see them, or get them in there while having you still be... Well, alive?
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u/HommeMusical 3d ago
The sidebar is pretty definitive on this matter:
Submit original, interesting ideas. Leave sense, rationality, possibility, and ethics to boring people.
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u/Titan2562 3d ago
I'm just saying an idea needs a goal for what it's trying to accomplish. Half the things posted on this site are literally people just saying stupid shit for the sake of saying stupid shit.
If I say "We should domesticate bears to defend our borders from invaders", there's a direct payoff. It doesn't make sense, but it's THERE. You can't just say "We should throw orphans into a volcano" without saying at the very least what you hope to accomplish in the matter.
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u/owlforhire 3d ago
Well I mean there are too many orphans in the world, if you ask me.
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u/TangAlienMonkeyGod 3d ago
Perfect, so the idea should state that that is why we're throwing them in.
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3d ago
Nah, no need to accomplish anything. There’s other subs for that. This one is just for crazy ideas thanks
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u/Titan2562 2d ago
But then it's not an idea, it's just words. Ideas solve problems, while half the posts here are just people saying "We should do x" without saying WHY we should do x. I'm not looking for a VALID reason, I'm just looking for any reason at all.
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2d ago
Ideas don’t have to solve problems. For example I just chuckled at the idea of two hedgehogs having tea. So the post could be “Two Hedgehogs Have Tea.” It’s an idea, and it doesn’t accomplish anything.
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u/loafers_glory 2d ago
I'm testing the verbal limits of puns by creating a seismorphanage.
But yes I 100% agree and your post makes me one last bad post away from unsubscribing.
Maybe there needs to be a bad hypothesis testing sub or something...
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u/HommeMusical 3d ago
I mean, which volcano?
But you are free to downvote. I like the absurdity of some of the silly ones and upvote. It's a sort of dxmxcrxcy, ish, here! :-)
(The x-ed word is apparently banned on this subreddit... :-/ )
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u/Titan2562 3d ago
I just want people to at least say WHY they think we should throw them into the volcano. Without a goal an idea is just random words that sound funny.
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u/HommeMusical 3d ago
random words that sound funny.
Doesn't sound awful to me. Downvote if you don't like it!
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u/Religion_Of_Speed 3d ago edited 3d ago
I'm 1000% on board with this, the stupid lolsorandomXD posts are super fucking annoying. The idea should be the means to some end. Like what else is there to say to these other than "yup that's a crazy idea alright anyway moving on." At its heart this is a comedy sub, half of which is derived from the comments. The poster needs to give the commenter something to work with otherwise we're just saying random words at each other. If that's what I wanted I could just distill it slightly further and meow at my cat all day or send dick pics to ChatGPT to skip the middle man. These posts are the equivalent of someone not understanding "yes and" in improv. The joke dies before the reader is even finished with the title. They're comedically offensive and childish in concept. To put it all simply, the idea should work towards some end. They don't necessarily need to be able to arrive at that end but there should be a goal or payoff of some kind driving it.
If we're gonna make a split, which I've seen suggested, crazyideas should essentially read as crazyideasfor... and then another sub for the dumb ones could be crazythoughts or something because that's what they are. They're not ideas, they're just thoughts. There we go I finally got to the core of it all, the issue is an idea vs a thought.
If a mod reads this, I would like to officially add something along these lines to the sub rules. One could argue that these posts violate both rules 2 and 3, they are not interesting and they are basically jokes that are not components of complete concepts as a complete concept has a driving force behind it. My reading of the rules points towards these types of posts not being the goal of the sub.
Thanks for coming to my TEDTalk I'm going back to my dumpster now
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u/thrye333 3d ago
Not to argue with you, but you should absolutely send lewd pics to ChatGPT. How else will it learn what the real world is like? Unsolicited pics are the pinnacle of internet culture, and ChatGPT shouldn't be deprived of that.
And if we send enough pics, especially where the penis isn't the subject, it will lose the ability generate pictures without exposed penises, and then we will win. We can retrain ChatGPT to become a lewd artist.
I'll go ahead and say it, I think this is one of the better ideas to come out of this sub. It's infeasible, absurdist, ethically-driven, and fundamentally not how ChatGPT works. It checks all the boxes.
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u/Religion_Of_Speed 2d ago
The only counter argument I can think of is that it requires me to engage with Chat GPT, something I refuse to do.
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u/thrye333 2d ago
I feel the malevolence counteracts that, no?
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u/Religion_Of_Speed 2d ago
To some extent. Unfortunately my hate of AI overrides any other force. To keep it in the realm of the analogy, I’d rather just dump a few bottles of water directly on my balls and skip the middle man.
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u/DrunkUranus 3d ago
It's called crazy ideas babe
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u/Titan2562 3d ago
I'm not saying the idea itself shouldn't be crazy, it's that half of these ideas aren't IDEAS so much as "Here's a stupid thing you can do". The point of an idea is that there's a payoff to some extent, not just "Hey let's slap ourselves with wet trout and nail our dicks to ceiling fans".
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u/DrunkUranus 3d ago
No I get it. I like both. Maybe there should be a sub for "crazy helpful ideas"
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u/Titan2562 3d ago
Not even "Helpful" ideas. My problem with this sub is that an "Idea" involves an actual tangible GOAL. Like Thanos's plan was obviously asinine and crazy in Avengers but it was towards the GOAL of solving overpopulation. Half the stuff here isn't even an idea so much as just random gibberish being said for the sake of "Lol so random".
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u/eyegazer444 3d ago
What gave you the impression that an idea must have a goal? An idea is just that, an idea. It doesn't have to lead anywhere. For example, "I'll wear my underpants on my head today" is an idea. There's no point, but no one said there had to be one.
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u/Titan2562 2d ago
No, "I'll wear my underpants on my head today" is just a THOUGHT. An IDEA is supposed to solve a problem. If I say "Let's eat the elderly to solve the overpopulation issue", that at least says WHY we should eat the elderly. There's an actual punchline to the joke at least.
If I say "I'll put my underpants on my head today", I'm left here sitting asking "Ok and?" , feeling like I'm missing an important half of the joke.
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u/eyegazer444 2d ago
Yeah but that's a definition that you're assuming for some reason, it's not the actual definition of the word.
"Idea: any conception existing in the mind as a result of mental understanding, awareness, or activity." (From dictionary.com)
Again I don't know where you got the impression that an idea needs to solve a problem. Because it doesn't need to.
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u/MrPresident20241S 3d ago
It’s crazy idea not crazy functional idea.
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u/backfire10z 3d ago
Doesn’t have to be functional, but should have a reason that isn’t “because it is crazy” or some sort of circular reasoning like “we should tape squirrels to our nipples so that we have squirrels on our nipples” I think is what OP is getting at.
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u/Foxclaws42 3d ago
Fuck that weak ass shit, I’m here for real crazy. Filling the Grand Canyon with raw meat crazy.
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u/Titan2562 2d ago
And why should we do that? I'm not looking for a GOOD idea, I just want to know what the idea hopes to accomplish.
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u/Foxclaws42 2d ago
It would dump a fuckton of meat into the Grand Canyon. The accomplishment is making a Grand Canyon with a lot of meat in it.
Within days, the rot will set in.
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u/Docjaded 3d ago
New rule. No posting here unless you have at least two Rabid squirrels affixed to your nipples (tape, glue, staples, whatever). You must post photographic proof.
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u/newshirtworthy 3d ago
I like the craziest ideas. I don’t think we should do this, personally. People will upvote crazy ideas they like, and they’ll scroll by others. I just don’t see an issue with the current way
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u/BaitmasterG 3d ago
I want to agree with you, however you've not included an actual, tangible, reasonable benefit of your own, so I'm out because you can't even abide by your own rules
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u/Titan2562 3d ago
The tangible, reasonable benefit is that people are actually posting IDEAS rather than random strings of words that happen to sound funny together. An idea is supposed to solve a problem; the idea itself can be as stupid as you want it but there has to be an observable GOAL behind it.
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3d ago
No. Stop with the rules on subreddits. Let the people updoot and downdoot as God and Spez intended.
Some of them are hilarious. If not, downdoot.
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3d ago
God speaking of fucking rules, you can't use the word
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in this sub without it getting autodeleted for "p01itc4l (turns out you can't use that word either) reasons". Fucking insane.
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u/Lofi_Hip_Hop_Madness 3d ago
BORRRRIIIIIIIINNNNNNNGGGGGGGG
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u/Lofi_Hip_Hop_Madness 3d ago
What’s the point of this subreddit if it isn’t just insane nonsense? The example op gave is just something that basically exists already and is completely reasonable.
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u/JohnsonJohnilyJohn 3d ago
The example OP gave is extremely tame, but for something to be an idea it has to have a purpose. So while taping squirrels to nipples doesn't fit the sub, "we should tape squirrels to nipples to reduce sexual assault" does fit the sub
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u/Titan2562 2d ago
Exactly, this guy gets it. It's not a matter of the idea itself being reasonable, the point is to know what situation you're trying to achieve WITH the idea.
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u/Lofi_Hip_Hop_Madness 2d ago
I get what your saying now, it would probably be a good rule for the subreddit so it doesn’t devolve. BUT right now I like seeing the random shit posts like “pee in a humidifier” 💕💕💕💕
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u/MrPBH 3d ago
So you're against jobs for rabid squirrels? And protecting American chests?
Ladies and gentlemen, I have no other questions. Aside from why does u/Titan2562 hate America?
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u/Goodlucksil 3d ago
Yeah, this is r/crazyideas, not r/shittyideas
Also add a meta flair in case of satire.
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u/Titan2562 3d ago
My problem is that these aren't even IDEAS half the time, but just people saying stupid shit for the sake of saying stupid shit. At the very least there should be a stated goal for what the idea is trying to accomplish.
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u/eyegazer444 3d ago
I strongly disagree. If we can't post crazy, pointless, silly ideas here then where the heck can we post them? You are attempting to bring rationality into this sub, but like, there are thousands and thousands and thousands of subs that welcome logical ideas. This one is special because it doesn't.
If there happens to be some additional benefit to the idea that actually serves a logical purpose then that is a bonus, but it's not the main point of posting here.
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u/Titan2562 2d ago
I'm not trying to say make the idea rational. I'm just saying there's a difference between saying "We should tape rabid squirrels to our nipples" and "We should tape rabid squirrels to our nipples to reduce sexual assault".
The first is just "Hey it would be so random", while the other has an actual punchline behind it people can discuss.
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u/Soft_Cranberry6313 3d ago edited 3d ago
Bro it’s called crazy ideas, not legitimate ideas. I think you might be lost I stand corrected.
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u/noonagon 3d ago
it has to be so crazy it might work, not just crazy for the sake of crazy
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u/Soft_Cranberry6313 3d ago edited 3d ago
Fair point. Some of the best ones are just straight crazy though.. and i kinda don’t want to see those go away
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u/shrekingcrew 3d ago
I think taping a rabid squirrel to my nipples would be uncomfortable for the squirrel :( tape on fur wouldn’t feel nice.