User:H64/Lulz Terminating Cliche

Lulz Terminating Cliches are bromides that interrupt or distract from the mode, diction, connotation, timbre, feel, sound, color, scent, or flavor of a sentence, paragraph, or sometimes an entire article. LTCs are often innocent mistakes made by stupid newbies who intend on enhancing a statement, setup, the reader's expectations, etc, but what occurs instead is a splintered narrative: having the same affect as if one were being told a hilarious joke and the speaker is suddenly interrupted by an annoying friend that slips in "You're gonna love this part!" just before the punchline.

Examples

• (Adding insightful asides in parenthesis).
• Shitting up an article with unrelated memes.
• Making references to current events in unrelated articles.
• Having conversations, or using first-person identifiers such as "I", "we", "our". Adding commentary.

Heh, more like adding lulz! — Some giant faggot 05:58, 19 December 2024 (EST)

Prevention

A good editing guideline to remember is that "too many cooks spoil the broth."

If you see a well written block of text, leave it the fuck alone, don't add your two cents as you will likely fuck it up. Instead, help the article length by writing a paragraph of your own and inserting it somewhere appropriate. This cannot be stressed enough. Many ED articles were once good but were then shit up by 13 year old boys with no concept of composition, and think ED is a shouting match whereby the loudest gets his funny joke™ noticed first.

Good articles are rich with content, of digestible length, and have a respectable girth.