Zany Face

What is this

Zany Face is a noticeboard for nonsense

A small, human-moderated corner of the internet for jokes, unusual ideas, daft questions and low-stakes confessions. No follower counts. No algorithm deciding what you see. No pressure to become a brand.

How it works

Anyone can post without an account. A nickname is optional, ignorance of the rules is not. Guest posts sit in a queue until a moderator reads them, which keeps the place tolerable; signed-in Zanies go straight to the front page, and moderators still read and remove anything that breaks the rules. Accounts exist so you can keep a name, a profile, and a history of what you have posted.

The rules

  1. Be funny, not cruel. Punching down is boring and gets removed.
  2. No doxxing. No addresses, phone numbers, workplaces, or anything that identifies someone who did not volunteer it.
  3. No threats, harassment or hate. This includes the "just a joke" version.
  4. No illegal content. Nothing that would get the server seized.
  5. No spam. Adverts, referral links and crypto pitches go in the bin.
  6. Pictures in posts are links, not uploads. You host the picture elsewhere and paste a link from an approved host. Here is how. The only upload on the site is your own profile picture, which is cropped and shrunk as it arrives.
  7. Moderator decisions are final-ish. You can ask again politely in a reply.

On moderation

Posts can be approved, rejected, edited for formatting, or removed. Rejections usually come with a note. Repeat offenders get rate-limited first, then suspended. Moderation exists because the alternative is a website nobody wants to visit.

ZanyCoins

ZanyCoins (ZC) are the site's own currency, and they are already running. You earn them every time one of your posts is approved, and you spend them in the shop on profile trinkets: a tagline, a colour, a badge of your own, a pinned post, and a couple of extras beyond those.

They have no cash value. They are never sold, can't be bought, traded between accounts or cashed out, and they buy decoration rather than influence — posting, replying and moderation are the same for everyone whether they have ten ZC or ten thousand.

Dark Zany Face

Nothing of this exists yet. The idea is a separate, adults-only area with its own moderation standards, reachable only with a registered account after manual approval. It would not be an imageboard, and it would not be a free-for-all. If it ever happens, it will say so here first.

Getting in touch

Questions, corrections, a complaint about a moderator, or a request to take something down: write to hello@zanyface.lol. A person reads that inbox, not a robot with a form.

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