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bubblebee: Jan 6, 2014

Rando posted:

A lot of people here are ignorant of the mechanics of basic human butt function. I just wanted to let people know that.

You could make a poll thread.

# ? Mar 30, 2016 06:04

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Snooze Cruise: Feb 16, 2013; hey look,
a post

i just want to say i really like how gbs is right now, it reminds me of the very beginning of gbs 2.1 where people were doing all sorts of threads and didn't fell into the same type of posting, but even better

# ? Mar 30, 2016 06:05

Hector Beerlioz: Jun 16, 2010; aw, hec

PBS Newshour posted:

i just want to say i really like how gbs is right now, it reminds me of the very beginning of gbs 2.1 where people were doing all sorts of threads and didn't fell into the same type of posting, but even better

GBS has been good lately. I see a lot of new posters popping up which is good.

# ? Mar 30, 2016 06:09

Isaac: Aug 3, 2006; Fun Shoe

BirryJoru posted:

I'm back, baby!

There's no place like home.

Welcommen

# ? Mar 30, 2016 12:31

Kumo: Jul 31, 2004

SilkyP posted:

Stirring words of wisdom.

Back when I signed up SA was unique, and even a haven of sorts from the terrible websites that abounded because you had to pay to join the forums (uncommon at the time), grammar, spelling and punctuation were required and the rules were strictly enforced. It was also very, very funny and borderline illegal in some ways. You could get reprimanded for not being funny, interesting or being a dipshit.

Years later, I hated GBS 2.0, and the low content, low effort posting it brought and how readily anyone who tried to make a decent post or thread was shat upon until they were run out of the site. And god help you if you disclosed you were a woman. SA is a funny place, but drat there are some creepy people here and I know a lot of people, old friends and acquaintances mostly, who won't post here because of how harassing and threatening it has become.

In short, SA devolved into the type of terrible website that people like myself came here to avoid.

The changing times, and technologies also create financial problems for SA. In order to keep the site running, you need income, and you get income directly or indirectly from users who come here for content. Content is generated often for free by the user base. To protect that income stream, you have to protect your user base and encourage and develop interesting, funny and worthwhile content that will make people come back, be involved and spend money.

Another wrinkle is that at least some of the income streams on SA are predicated on user interactions (avatars, Plat, etc.) at a time when people don't interact with each other. You have to create a sense of community and foster interactions, and I think that requires creative and novel thinking.

# ? Mar 30, 2016 16:42

www: Aug 4, 2010

Kumo posted:

I know a lot of people, old friends and acquaintances mostly, who won't post here because of how harassing and threatening it has become.

man up

# ? Mar 30, 2016 16:46

Rando: Mar 11, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

bubblebee posted:

You could make a poll thread.

Think I should?

# ? Mar 30, 2016 16:48

Captain Yossarian: Feb 24, 2011; All new" Rings of Fire"

Grammar, spelling, and punctuation are what separate my favorite websites from those other kinds of websites...

# ? Mar 30, 2016 16:50

Captain Yossarian: Feb 24, 2011; All new" Rings of Fire"

www posted:

man up

Also this

# ? Mar 30, 2016 16:50

a whole buncha crows: May 8, 2003; WHEN WE DON'T KNOW WHO TO HATE, WE HATE OURSELVES.-SA USER NATION (AKA ME!)

Kumo posted:

Back when I signed up SA was unique, and even a haven of sorts from the terrible websites that abounded because you had to pay to join the forums (uncommon at the time), grammar, spelling and punctuation were required and the rules were strictly enforced. It was also very, very funny and borderline illegal in some ways. You could get reprimanded for not being funny, interesting or being a dipshit.

Years later, I hated GBS 2.0, and the low content, low effort posting it brought and how readily anyone who tried to make a decent post or thread was shat upon until they were run out of the site. And god help you if you disclosed you were a woman. SA is a funny place, but drat there are some creepy people here and I know a lot of people, old friends and acquaintances mostly, who won't post here because of how harassing and threatening it has become.

In short, SA devolved into the type of terrible website that people like myself came here to avoid.

The changing times, and technologies also create financial problems for SA. In order to keep the site running, you need income, and you get income directly or indirectly from users who come here for content. Content is generated often for free by the user base. To protect that income stream, you have to protect your user base and encourage and develop interesting, funny and worthwhile content that will make people come back, be involved and spend money.

Another wrinkle is that at least some of the income streams on SA are predicated on user interactions (avatars, Plat, etc.) at a time when people don't interact with each other. You have to create a sense of community and foster interactions, and I think that requires creative and novel thinking.

# ? Mar 30, 2016 16:50

Rando: Mar 11, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

ATTN: the ignorant, the unwise and the discouraged

I know exactly how you "save the site" or "make it worth a return visit" or "make it relevant on today's internet" or whatever. It's remedial school, special ed class, retard simple.

There is exactly one thing an old fashioned bulletin board style web site like the SA forums does better than poo poo like face book or twitter or whatever else, and that is carrying on a long conversation. Long as in length and long as in duration.

People try to have in depth discussions on face book but it is frustrating and always futile because the site is designed to keep new posts coming in a fast and endless ticker tape style.and sweep old stuff quickly away.

And you can't carry a conversation on Twitter at all.

So, yeah, suck a cock to all the lazy posters around here that think an op larger than one short paragraph's worth of words is too much to read while also giving a big fat gently caress-that-noise to the thought of ever posting that many words themselves.

Encourage one of these styles of communication. Drive the other into exile.

# ? Mar 30, 2016 17:11

Hogge Wild: Aug 21, 2012; by FactsAreUseless; Pillbug

Kumo posted:

Back when I signed up SA was unique, and even a haven of sorts from the terrible websites that abounded because you had to pay to join the forums (uncommon at the time), grammar, spelling and punctuation were required and the rules were strictly enforced. It was also very, very funny and borderline illegal in some ways. You could get reprimanded for not being funny, interesting or being a dipshit.

Years later, I hated GBS 2.0, and the low content, low effort posting it brought and how readily anyone who tried to make a decent post or thread was shat upon until they were run out of the site. And god help you if you disclosed you were a woman. SA is a funny place, but drat there are some creepy people here and I know a lot of people, old friends and acquaintances mostly, who won't post here because of how harassing and threatening it has become.

In short, SA devolved into the type of terrible website that people like myself came here to avoid.

The changing times, and technologies also create financial problems for SA. In order to keep the site running, you need income, and you get income directly or indirectly from users who come here for content. Content is generated often for free by the user base. To protect that income stream, you have to protect your user base and encourage and develop interesting, funny and worthwhile content that will make people come back, be involved and spend money.

Another wrinkle is that at least some of the income streams on SA are predicated on user interactions (avatars, Plat, etc.) at a time when people don't interact with each other. You have to create a sense of community and foster interactions, and I think that requires creative and novel thinking.

You are full of poo poo.

No good threads were shat upon, but now people were able to tell when someone's threads were bad. I read 2013 archives a while back and the people who make D&D a shithole today were the same people who made GBS poo poo back then. Yes, I would love to read this week's 500+ page thread about gun cuntrol on this comedy site. And the moderation team of this site had some real characters in 2013. Also, I've also never seen you make a funny thread, or even a good post, so how can you tell other people how they should post? And people are buying avs for themselves and other people all the time, how about you take a look at Baron's Av thread where he makes free avs: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3770140 you dipshit. The best thing you could do to this community would be to log out and never come back.

# ? Mar 30, 2016 17:12

raton: Jul 28, 2003; by FactsAreUseless

Kumo posted:

Back when I signed up SA was unique, and even a haven of sorts from the terrible websites that abounded because you had to pay to join the forums (uncommon at the time), grammar, spelling and punctuation were required and the rules were strictly enforced. It was also very, very funny and borderline illegal in some ways. You could get reprimanded for not being funny, interesting or being a dipshit.

Years later, I hated GBS 2.0, and the low content, low effort posting it brought and how readily anyone who tried to make a decent post or thread was shat upon until they were run out of the site. And god help you if you disclosed you were a woman. SA is a funny place, but drat there are some creepy people here and I know a lot of people, old friends and acquaintances mostly, who won't post here because of how harassing and threatening it has become.

In short, SA devolved into the type of terrible website that people like myself came here to avoid.

The changing times, and technologies also create financial problems for SA. In order to keep the site running, you need income, and you get income directly or indirectly from users who come here for content. Content is generated often for free by the user base. To protect that income stream, you have to protect your user base and encourage and develop interesting, funny and worthwhile content that will make people come back, be involved and spend money.

Another wrinkle is that at least some of the income streams on SA are predicated on user interactions (avatars, Plat, etc.) at a time when people don't interact with each other. You have to create a sense of community and foster interactions, and I think that requires creative and novel think

If you make a good seriouspost/megathread people will participate with/in it. It's not some conspiracy where elves are letting pigs into your garden every night to ruin your gladiolas. I've got a big dumb sardine thread that people post in a lot, we've got a China thread that forecasts how the internet will talk about China months before it does, etc. Post better and consider looking at your idea of what constitutes creativity because it's really limited right now -- following the instructions that come with your Lego set to make the thing pictured on the box isn't creative.

# ? Mar 30, 2016 17:14

Kumo: Jul 31, 2004

Hogge Wild posted:

You are full of poo poo.

No good threads were shat upon, but now people were able to tell when someone's threads were bad. I read 2013 archives a while back and the people who make D&D a shithole today were the same people who made GBS poo poo back then. Yes, I would love to read this week's 500+ page thread about gun cuntrol on this comedy site. And the moderation team of this site had some real characters in 2013. Also, I've also never seen you make a funny thread, or even a good post, so how can you tell other people how they should post? And people are buying avs for themselves and other people all the time, how about you take a look at Baron's Av thread where he makes free avs: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3770140 you dipshit. The best thing you could do to this community would be to log out and never come back.

There's no need for this. Okay?

I'm expressing an opinion, and you're being insulting. If you disagree, hey that's fair but calling me a dipshit, saying I'm full of poo poo, log out and never come back, I've never made a good thread or post etc., (I think I got them all right?) that just really serves to prove my point.

You're not offering much in the way of a dissenting opinion, you're just being rude.

# ? Mar 30, 2016 17:20

Captain Yossarian: Feb 24, 2011; All new" Rings of Fire"

You are very sensitive about what you consider to be the "ideal" type of posting but that's just like, your opinion man

# ? Mar 30, 2016 17:22

dad gay. so what: Feb 18, 2003; by FactsAreUseless

Kumo posted:

There's no need for this. Okay?

I'm expressing an opinion, and you're being insulting. If you disagree, hey that's fair but calling me a dipshit, saying I'm full of poo poo, log out and never come back, I've never made a good thread or post etc., (I think I got them all right?) that just really serves to prove my point.

You're not offering much in the way of a dissenting opinion, you're just being rude.

make a funny post or thread

# ? Mar 30, 2016 17:22

Hogge Wild: Aug 21, 2012; by FactsAreUseless; Pillbug

dad gay. so what posted:

make a funny post or thread

# ? Mar 30, 2016 17:23

Saint Isaias Boner: Jan 17, 2007; hi how are you ♥

Kumo posted:

Back when I signed up SA was unique, and even a haven of sorts from the terrible websites that abounded because you had to pay to join the forums (uncommon at the time), grammar, spelling and punctuation were required and the rules were strictly enforced. It was also very, very funny and borderline illegal in some ways. You could get reprimanded for not being funny, interesting or being a dipshit.

Years later, I hated GBS 2.0, and the low content, low effort posting it brought and how readily anyone who tried to make a decent post or thread was shat upon until they were run out of the site. And god help you if you disclosed you were a woman. SA is a funny place, but drat there are some creepy people here and I know a lot of people, old friends and acquaintances mostly, who won't post here because of how harassing and threatening it has become.

In short, SA devolved into the type of terrible website that people like myself came here to avoid.

The changing times, and technologies also create financial problems for SA. In order to keep the site running, you need income, and you get income directly or indirectly from users who come here for content. Content is generated often for free by the user base. To protect that income stream, you have to protect your user base and encourage and develop interesting, funny and worthwhile content that will make people come back, be involved and spend money.

Another wrinkle is that at least some of the income streams on SA are predicated on user interactions (avatars, Plat, etc.) at a time when people don't interact with each other. You have to create a sense of community and foster interactions, and I think that requires creative and novel thinking.

you're wrong. last year in the height of threadshittery I ran two obscenely high-effort threads that attracted one or two mild shitposts per thread. One of them started on one side of the Rowdy Trout and ended on the other.

E: i mentioned the Rowdy Trout because things got pretty rowdy in the old Geeb

# ? Mar 30, 2016 17:25

JakeP: Apr 27, 2003; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS; Lipstick Apathy

i liked GBS more when I wasn't so terrified id be banned :ohdear:

# ? Mar 30, 2016 17:27

Hogge Wild: Aug 21, 2012; by FactsAreUseless; Pillbug

Of all of the people who complain about GBS being unfunny only Gom has ever made any funny posts himself. All of the rest have been unfunny people who can only complain about grammar and punctuation.

# ? Mar 30, 2016 17:32

raton: Jul 28, 2003; by FactsAreUseless

Rando posted:

ATTN: the ignorant, the unwise and the discouraged

I know exactly how you "save the site" or "make it worth a return visit" or "make it relevant on today's internet" or whatever. It's remedial school, special ed class, retard simple.

There is exactly one thing an old fashioned bulletin board style web site like the SA forums does better than poo poo like face book or twitter or whatever else, and that is carrying on a long conversation. Long as in length and long as in duration.

People try to have in depth discussions on face book but it is frustrating and always futile because the site is designed to keep new posts coming in a fast and endless ticker tape style.and sweep old stuff quickly away.

And you can't carry a conversation on Twitter at all.

So, yeah, suck a cock to all the lazy posters around here that think an op larger than one short paragraph's worth of words is too much to read while also giving a big fat gently caress-that-noise to the thought of ever posting that many words themselves.

Encourage one of these styles of communication. Drive the other into exile.

If you post several paragraphs of text and people make fun of you and tell you your post is bad that doesn't mean that those people are wrong. It's hard to make longer content worth reading but that doesn't mean we should safespace content that isn't worth reading. We're all Internet veterans on here -- predictable Photoshops or some news article that rankles the obvious pet concerns of 30 year old computer janitors isn't content any more.

For years GBS was the equivalent of being seated at a family dinner with Uncle Dave, where Uncle Dave was retreading the same bullshit yet again in his usual bland on the rails way, shooting angry glares at anyone who interrupted him with a joke. If you're Uncle Dave you're not going to like it when you're not allowed to monopolize or dictate the conversation any more. You're not going to like actually having to be interesting to get people to express interest.

# ? Mar 30, 2016 17:32

Kumo: Jul 31, 2004

JakeP posted:

i liked GBS more when I wasn't so terrified id be banned

That's a good point, but I think there was an element of self-policing and restraint that went in to posts and threads when people were worried about bans. I guess it can be a fine line to walk.

Like the rules say:

quote:

Before you post: Before posting, please ask yourself the following question: "Am I making a post which is either funny, informative, or interesting on any level?"

# ? Mar 30, 2016 17:32

dad gay. so what: Feb 18, 2003; by FactsAreUseless

Kumo posted:

Like the rules say:
Before you post: Before posting, please ask yourself the following question: "Am I making a post which is either funny, informative, or interesting on any level?"

do you follow this rule?

# ? Mar 30, 2016 17:33

raton: Jul 28, 2003; by FactsAreUseless

Kumo posted:

There's no need for this. Okay?

I'm expressing an opinion, and you're being insulting. If you disagree, hey that's fair but calling me a dipshit, saying I'm full of poo poo, log out and never come back, I've never made a good thread or post etc., (I think I got them all right?) that just really serves to prove my point.

You're not offering much in the way of a dissenting opinion, you're just being rude.

If you haven't found this out in your life yet let me suggest that when you're among peers telling people how they're to talk to you often doesn't work out real well.

# ? Mar 30, 2016 17:38

raton: Jul 28, 2003; by FactsAreUseless

dad gay. so what posted:

do you follow this rule?

# ? Mar 30, 2016 17:40

Hogge Wild: Aug 21, 2012; by FactsAreUseless; Pillbug

dad gay. so what posted:

do you follow this rule?

# ? Mar 30, 2016 17:42

Kumo: Jul 31, 2004

dad gay. so what posted:

do you follow this rule?

Yeah I try to. Do you?

You certainly post a lot, you fyad-lite GBS forum superstar, and the quantity doesn't capture a lot of quality in my thinking. But I guess you need this as an outlet in your life.

I mean what else you got going on?

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# ? Mar 30, 2016 17:42

dad gay. so what: Feb 18, 2003; by FactsAreUseless

Kumo posted:

Yeah I try to. Do you?

You certainly post a lot, you fyad-lite GBS forum superstar, and the quantity doesn't capture a lot of quality in my thinking. But I guess you need this as an outlet in your life.

I mean what else you got going on?

gbs is my video game

# ? Mar 30, 2016 17:43

raton: Jul 28, 2003; by FactsAreUseless

meee YOWZA

# ? Mar 30, 2016 17:43

dad gay. so what: Feb 18, 2003; by FactsAreUseless

or my vending machine, if you will

# ? Mar 30, 2016 17:43

satanic splash-back: Jan 28, 2009

dad gay. so what posted:

do you follow this rule?

# ? Mar 30, 2016 17:45

dad gay. so what: Feb 18, 2003; by FactsAreUseless

we all have our private demons, but yours appear to be very boring and lame

# ? Mar 30, 2016 17:45

Rando: Mar 11, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

Sheep-Goats posted:

If you post several paragraphs of text and people make fun of you and tell you your post is bad that doesn't mean that those people are wrong. It's hard to make longer content worth reading but that doesn't mean we should safespace content that isn't worth reading.

I absolutely agree. Don't get me wrong. I do not advocate anything like an A for Effort mentality.

Straining on the bowel for half an hour before the turd drops still only produces a turd.

Back Up Non-Poop Related Metaphor:

Just because you planted a flower bed only meant for one type of flower doesn't mean every sickly sprout gets to live.

# ? Mar 30, 2016 17:46

www: Aug 4, 2010

Rando posted:

ATTN: the ignorant, the unwise and the discouraged

u got my attention

# ? Mar 30, 2016 17:47

Rando: Mar 11, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

www posted:

u got my attention

How's it going?

# ? Mar 30, 2016 17:49

SilkyP: Jul 21, 2004; The Boo-Box

Hogge Wild posted:

You are full of poo poo.

No good threads were shat upon, but now people were able to tell when someone's threads were bad. I read 2013 archives a while back and the people who make D&D a shithole today were the same people who made GBS poo poo back then. Yes, I would love to read this week's 500+ page thread about gun cuntrol on this comedy site. And the moderation team of this site had some real characters in 2013. Also, I've also never seen you make a funny thread, or even a good post, so how can you tell other people how they should post? And people are buying avs for themselves and other people all the time, how about you take a look at Baron's Av thread where he makes free avs: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3770140 you dipshit. The best thing you could do to this community would be to log out and never come back.

I don't know, I'm not convinced someone has to be a great/funny/genius poster to be able to critique and weigh on if the quality of the threads has gotten worse or not. I go to stand up comedy shows even though I couldn't be a comedian and I'm pretty sure I can still comment on the quality.
I myself am not a creative or funny poster and in fact have lately been a pretty lovely poster but that's because I am weak and stupid but that doesn't mean I can't encourage the smart funny people out there to let their creative juices flow. I'm not demanding it, and I certainly don't deserve it, it would just be awesome imho.

Also when people refer back to great ages in GBS/SA history they are usually going back further than 2013.

I do feel like political poo poo or poo poo that is obviously going to turn political isn't entertaining and isn't the kind of poo poo that draws or has ever drawn anyone to the forums so I'm glad there is at least a stated place for those kinds of topics even if it is a toxic dump.

# ? Mar 30, 2016 17:49

Kumo: Jul 31, 2004

dad gay. so what posted:

we all have our private demons, but yours appear to be very boring and lame

Well thank god I have your censure. I would have to seriously re-examine every facet of my life otherwise.

Off to make a thread about pooping, ta ya'll.

# ? Mar 30, 2016 17:50

dad gay. so what: Feb 18, 2003; by FactsAreUseless

Kumo posted:

Well thank god I have your censure. I would have to seriously re-examine every facet of my life otherwise.

Off to make a thread about pooping, ta ya'll.

peace out, fuckface!

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# ? Mar 30, 2016 17:51

Saint Isaias Boner: Jan 17, 2007; hi how are you ♥

dad gay. so what posted:

peace out, fuckface!

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Hogge Wild: Aug 21, 2012; by FactsAreUseless; Pillbug

dad gay. so what posted:

peace out, fuckface!

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