Trollpasta Wiki:Writing a Trollpasta: Do's and Don'ts: Difference between revisions

*<font color= "green">'''DO'''</font> think of an original idea. This is the most obvious. Copying a pasta will most likely have it removed. ThinkSo think of something not many people have done.

**However, <font color= "red">'''DON'T'''</font> use one joke as a reference. This will make your pastaspasta get stale and most of them will getlikely deleted, or at best, a ton of groans.

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*<font color= "red">'''DON'T'''</font> think just because it's bad, it's funny. This is they key rule to writing a good trollpasta. If it's an unreadable mess of caps and EVIL PATRIXXX, it's not funny. YouIt's canbest maketo itavoid ALLwriting CAPS,these havetypes veryof bad grammarpastas, oras havethey EVILalmost PATRIXXX,always butwill don'tturn exaggerateout itbad. [[ZOMG IZ ZGARIEZED BAZDA LIGE 1337 H4X]] is a primary example of how not to obey this rule.

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