So I'm at work, browsing on Internet Explorer. Many of the modern, seamless features of the forum aren't so seamless on this anachronism. Dapping, apparently, is one of them.
I clicked to dap this post, then it took me to a place I'd never seen before. A whole new page, with a line of text that read:
Are you sure you wish to dap this post?
It made me think.....was I sure?
This added moment of reflection this sub-standard browser had provided me made me really think within myself and judge the post n a truly objective manner. On this confirmation page I was truly dapping in a vacuum.
If the post in question had been made by a non-OFTer...it might have even earned derision from me. The fact the post was made by Penfield, one of my most dapped cohorts, was weighing heavily on my decision. But here, removed from it all, with only that question staring me down...
Are you sure you wish to dap this post?
What are daps, brehs?
Are they our currency? We don't trade in it, but we do barter. Gifs, links, all parlayed for dap by the clickful. Are they a....social currency? But the fact free-dap treads exist belittle the dap. Undermine it. Weaken it. Posters not worth their post-count in salt may have three times as many daps. Daps are meaningless. Daps are nothing. Yet, here it stared at me.
Are you sure you wish to dap this post?
Why was I unsure? Fine, the post itself was undeserving, but I'm sure Penfield has made any number of posts I'd missed that warranted my single click of praise. But, yet, there it was.
Are you sure you wish to dap this post?
I didn't.