Banned Prompts

A lot of my stories were responses to prompts on reddit/rWritingPrompts. I posted prompts there as well. A few prompts did well, many were ignored, and several were banned. The banned ones were usually banned with this explanation: "Moderators remove posts from feeds for a variety of reasons, including keeping communities safe, civil, and true to their purpose." Here are my banned prompts (please try not to destroy civilization with them):

• What's so scary about halloween?
• Seek-scan ratios say it's cheaper to test if EVERYONE is a terrorist.
• Minibears
• "See, it's a minibear trap." "Minibears?" "Squirrels, chipmunks, raccoons ... something smaller than a bear that's been eating our food."
• X is like Y. Think about a plight with X, but translate it into a story about Y. And don't say what X is.
• What if they used a trebuchet and a Volvo?
• Tell a story, but use metaphors and misspellings about what the character wants to describe what the character sees. For example, trying to get out of the dessert without food or water, and describe the orange marmalade sunsets.
• You are about to choose between two of your goals. Thinking outside the box, you see a way to perhaps get them both ... but will it be considered cheating?
• You are a crippled 17 year old girl in a wheelchair, cannot speak, hard to control your limbs. You've been removed from your parents home and are now in state-run supported living. There are two other residents and support staff. Secretly, you orchestrated getting here, and own the house.
• Preparing to write my Christmas letter, I just stared at the blank page. Nothing I'd done in the past year was fit to print.
• I set my sons before me: Reuben, Phil, Club, and Hoagie. "OK," I said, "which one of you was it that pushed the outhouse over the cliff last night?"
• That life insurance jingle was so good it forced the first amendment to be overturned.
• Two liars haggling over a car.
• The other side was presenting gibberish. How do you argue with that?
• Balancing a yardstick on the end of your finger is a test of hand-eye coordination and concentration. I've always found it possible but difficult. It can be repeated when a child or an adult or elderly.

(Prompts being liked or ignored is boring, but getting banned is kinda cool.)