GBS Town HELL Thread

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

i move that shaquin is loving crushing it today, can i get a second

# ¿ Mar 28, 2016 02:38

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 01:12

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

flerp posted:

ambien that it is a good av

# ¿ Mar 29, 2016 00:01

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

sure thing, I'll just reach into my rear end and...

hey

there's $5 back here

# ¿ Mar 29, 2016 17:32

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

Nation posted:

lol i guess you got two tips

probably more, it's all loose change

# ¿ Mar 29, 2016 17:35

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

8 track betamax posted:

Make it so everyday we vote on what the background color of GBS is.

puce

# ¿ Mar 29, 2016 19:53

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

i don't know about supernatural and paranormal but if a certain gay dad doesn't hurry up with a scroll thread i will bury him

# ¿ Mar 30, 2016 01:00

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

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

dad gay. so what posted:

peace out, fuckface!

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

# ¿ Mar 30, 2016 17:59

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

Lolie posted:

People forget that it's a business which exists to make a profit and want to turn it into their personal social club. They're too lazy to create their own forum where they can write the perfect set of rules because effort.

yes that's exactly why i don't agree with everything that happens here. i'm lazy. thank you for clearing that up for me, i'll go work on myself a bit and come back a better person.

# ¿ Mar 31, 2016 09:29

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

I like to keep a ratio between good posts and horrible posts, what's going to happen to me? If every post is an effort post then things get pretty weird

# ¿ Mar 31, 2016 12:08

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

Isaac posted:

Calm down

no isaac i'm inconsolable

# ¿ Mar 31, 2016 12:35

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

Dinosaurmageddon posted:

You calm down. Where's my $8000?

Unrelated, but how can we monetize the site so GBS Superstars get monetary compensation? Effort posts (and even millions of shitposts) take time.
I mean, Pie-in-the-Sky level thinking here, but automation's gonna be taking over every last job leaving comedy and art for last, so the sooner SomethingAwful can develop the world's first Arts-based currency, the sooner we can survive the complete and inevitable collapse of capitalist society. :usa:

nah dino there's no point. my CYOAs (which might not be the best example of an actually good thread but definitely count as effort) would cost so much to produce if I wasn't doing them for fun that any monetary compensation would just cheapen the whole thing for me. sometimes i get sent something fun for making a Good Thread and that's enough for me

# ¿ Mar 31, 2016 12:55