Bossform's HOW TO on posting video links

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Oh, hello. You caught me by suprise. Give me a second to sip my brandy beside the fire here whilst I wear a smoking jacket...

Much better. I'm Bossform, author of "9/10 of WoW players are annoying teens" and "Where to hide the body; a guide to burying annoying teens." Are you the victim of a failed education system looking to post a lame video you and your 12 yo friends couldn't stop laughing at whilst high on pixie sticks and spray paint fumes last night? Come with me now on a magical journey through the proper way in which to post said lame video.

Step 1 - The topic

While topic names like LOL , Attention <Server name>, <Insert name>'s fat mom on a scooter and ROFFLE, he got hurt may appear at first to be clever titles that will gaurentee upwards of 12, maybe even 13 hits, you have to ask yourself what the audience wants out of this post title as far as information.

Here's a few titles that might flow off the tongue... I'm an idiot, This is what happens when you give kids internet access, Click the link to get stupider and I'm gonna regret posting this if I ever graduate highschool are all great names that let forum browsers know that you wasted enough of your time watching the lame video so they problably don't need to waste theirs.

Step 2 - The body

Often posters of lame videos assume that no one is bored/uneducated/mentally challenged (retarded for the oldschool) enough to actually click their tread. Well, bad news kids. Sometimes they do. In the event of this hand-eye coordination fiasco the forum browser may then see that you have a post which only includes a video link with the sublink of "#532183.htm" which, unfortunatly for us humans, doesn't let one know quite which lame video you have linked.

So said person may make a second wrong move choose-your-own-adventure style opting to click the link rather than closing the thread and reporting you to an Admin for being an imbicile who seeks to spread your links of videos of fat dogs on rollerskates for the benefit of mankind. Woe is humanity.

To help this person out give the link some reference. Somethign in the body besides the link itself like "Warning; I'm 12 and I find this funny" or "My parents ignore me and now you suffer the consequenses" or even "Vote yes on proposition #362; th requirement for I.Q. tests for internet access." If none of those options catch your eye try simply holding down the backspace key for several seconds after pasting your video thread. If none of these options appeal to you, try filling your bathtub with water, tying your hands behind your back and laying face down in the tub as a joke for several hours.

Step 3 - Viewer response

Understand that the internet is a wonderous place filled with what many claim to be the completion of the human record. And pron. Lots of pron. But it is an open system which means that when you post a thread you open yourself to the world to see, except for North Korea. Chi-Kang Intranet Vi Kalo!

There's a chance that someone, somewhere may not actually like your lame link to a video of a car running into a brick wall at 4 mph. Just brace yourself for the slight possiblilty. They may post as much. Just remember, you're invincible behind your keyboard. Keep posting your lame links. Keep posting.

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