First, my English skill is so bad, but I will try and hope you will understand. XD
I saw many thread talk about "POTATO" but I don't understand what is potato? potato as I know is just a food.
I pretty sure when I ask this question everyone will troll me, so I create this GA for my whitelist only!!
Everyone who tell me what is true meaning of "POTATO" will be added to my whitelist.

https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/sB66I/borderlands-the-pre-sequel
Close now, require Lv1+

What happen on someone who troll me???
May the POTATO mercy there soul.

Note. I will not reply any comment although someone will become my whitelist, so please check yourself.
Edit: This thread is not a joke I really want to know that.

Thank you for answer, now I understand about POTATO joke.
As I said above, this thread is not a joke so, you just give me a serious answer, I will add you on my white list.
But most people still troll me I don't know why.

May be most people in this thread are POTATO aren't ??

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Potato has no meaning it's just the source of everything. Steamgifts servers are powered by potatoes!

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You see, potato is potato, it has no meaning but all the possible meanings at once, potato is life, potato is love, you can't deny it. I go into more
of it's details here

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POTATO mean "funny last choice on the poll on the poll, which you must choose."

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also i must spam this

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"funny"

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Potato is the reason for live in this world.

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POTATO euqals exactly 42!

So potato is the answer to life, universe and everything

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From knowyourmeme.com

About

Potato is commonly used mockingly as a reply to obvious or idiotic questions or to mock many other memes.It is also used as a popular trolling method.It started to gain popularity after the release of The Ringer although it reached it’s peak in popularity following the release of Portal 2 in which the Player carries around a malevolent computer attached to a potato.

And since i just bored you with a boring explanation you get one more youtube link for more potatoes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrQVFZx7XX4

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+1
I like this explanation the best

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Potato is like a cat. A cat that dances through the moonlight on a hot summer day. A cat that can win a gun fight with a sword. A cat that can cool down your hot bowl of chili with a blowtorch.

I have no effin' clue, honestly.

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I think Potato is synonymous for something (clearly not specify).

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something that is used on more sites then this one, on 9gag you get a potato if someone posts a long post.

radagast82 states the it comes from portal, but since ive never played the game, I cant support it. But since it is the first serious answer and I assume it is true. Not planning too look it up because I want to play the game sometime in the future :)

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Personal
Obligatory
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About
True
Obsession (about POTATO)
Eternal loop.
Starts here.

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I like how everyone describe whats potato ... Potato is delicious :)

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It's a shitty steamgifts meme.

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I believe it is a crazy thing, over time anyone who stays on SG will have potato on the brain

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The thing is you cannot understand the meaning behind the potato. Actually no one can. It is something you feel through your bones, your soul. There is no need to try to make sense out of it. Just feel it with every breath you take. The rest is meaningless.

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It's a hidden acronym born out of necessity to organize an attack on the undercover Canadian Nazis in the Allied front during the Assault on the Normandy SR2. It means
Put Our Titanium Armor unTo Ourselves

Sadly, this may have had more resemblance to real history than the content The History Channel has been making lately.

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POTATO is just POTATO don't dig it.

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"Potato is commonly used mockingly as a reply to obvious or idiotic questions or to mock many other memes. It is also used as a popular trolling method. It started to gain popularity after the release of The Ringer although it reached it’s peak in popularity following the release of Portal 2 in which the Player carries around a malevolent computer attached to a potato." Source

When it comes to tech people use the word potato for tech of low quality, I don't really know why. On Steamgifts I assume people use the word potato because it sounds funny, it's almost like the equivalent of derp.

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All I know about Potato. you can cook them in many ways, boiled, fried, mashed, grind, etc.

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Like the humble potato, which can be used to create many different foods, this word has many concepts like:

  • a poor quality or obsolete object
  • a caucasian person living in South East Asia
  • the best spud in the world

But here in SG. It's usually used as a word to end a sentence/poll because they potato.

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Already own the game, but I'll try explaining this one to you... as accurately as I can, at least.

"Potato" is the vegetable in ever sense of the word. Some people use it to describe a device or item of poor quality, usually in electronics. For example, "David's computer doesn't even run simple games. It's a potato." But the word "potato" itself only means what it means; a plant of which the root is edible.

Now, that's where it gets complicated... explaining the implication and usage of "potato" on the Steamgifts forum.
There's really no actual explanation, really, other than the word is used when a person lacks the proper answer, commentary, or question to a post or inquiry. For example, it's used in polls on the Steamgifts forum as a third (or ?th) choice in case where fellow users do not have, or do not want to give the proper answer to the question asked in the poll. Or, they simply do not have an opinion on the matter/the choice they want to vote for is not available in the poll.

Basically, "potato" is some kind of a "placeholder" word. Why the word "potato" specifically? No idea. It just is, for some reason.

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Seeing that you tried to answer him but don't know much in detail about it, I redirect you to my post where I explain the whole origin of the potato thing

https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/Vog5B/what-is-the-true-meaning-for-wording-potato-40p-ga-inside/search?page=7#ZwCbAN7

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actually, nobody knows

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Potato is like "etc" of SG.

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The best food in the world!!=D

dude1-what did you have for dinner?
dude2-just some potato chips and french fries
dude1-yeah potatoes rock!!

on other hand it's something you put in the poll for trolling xD

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