Talk:Punding

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"adding or removing spaces in a Wikipedia article in such a way that the appearance of the article is affected only imperceptibley or not at all." Is that a joke or graffiti? Seems strange to mention Wikipedia in this article. - jeffhoy

agreed. rhetoric removed.

I think you guys missed the point -- jeffhoy added a very specific example of punding and I think it's hilarious in a very meta-way, to imagine that there are actually people that go around doing this. It seems plausible. Kevin143 05:24, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

I think there is always the limit of good taste. While it might indeed be funny to think about an abstract person doing this, it isn't if you consider that real people suffer from this sort of behavior and all it takes is an imbalance of the dopamine levels in your own brain for you to sit mindlessly disassembling doorknobs. If you like, relegate it to BJAODN. Sr.Wombat 01:39, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Where does the word comr from? It's not in the OED. If anyone knows please can they add it to the entry? Dubbin 20:21, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

"It is commonly associated with side effects of drugs used against Parkinson's disease and with the use of methamphetamine (in which context it is known as tweaking), which increases dopamine release and blocks its uptake" Tweaking refers to 'high' period of speed use in much the same way the 'peaking' refers to the high period of ecstasy use. While 'punding' activities may be engaged in whilst tweaking, the word 'tweaking' does not necessarily imply punding activities. --121.210.246.157 (talk) 15:26, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Tetris?
Is stacking tetrominoes into a 10-cell-wide space and removing rows of 10 squares considered punding? --Damian Yerrick (talk | stalk) 19:23, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
 * The above probably wouldn't count since removing rows awards points in the game of Tetris (nice joke though :). On a similar line of thinking, could we include Minecraft (or other virtal sandboxes) as a possible punding scenario?  Sandboxes are different than games like Tetris since there often is no scoring system, hence "pointless" organization can occur. Myoglobin (talk) 21:24, 3 May 2018 (UTC)