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Doggles posted:Virginia College lost their accreditation overnight. Guess the whole plan of doing a slow staggered closing till 2020 didn't work out. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/09/12/profit-chain-will-close-dozens-campuses quote:The closures come just a few years after ECA acquired 38 campuses owned by Kaplan College, another for-profit operator. They’re the latest evidence of restructuring in a sector rocked by regulatory crackdowns, negative publicity and falling enrollment as the economy continues to improve. That was only September when they said that.
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rndmnmbr posted:Everyone is wondering where Tumblr users will migrate to en masse and re-establish their community and I'm sitting here going "lol, that's not how this poo poo works, people." I've lived through it time and again, watching a website and it's community die. When communities like this die, they're gone. A few will wash up on the shores of other sites, a handful will stay in contact with each other, but Tumblr was a time as well as a place, and that time is over, it's zeitgeist now dissipating. In time someone will found another site that becomes a thriving community, and a lot (but not all) Tumblr users will reappear there, and the cycle will continue. But it's over, best just to remember what it was and dream of better days. That's true but the super weird thing is when you find people again randomly later on completely different sites.
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There were stairs in my house.
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quote:without tumblr how i gonna get poo poo like the Dashcon supernatural dog dick universe powerpoint presentation slides
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What the gently caress did I just read
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Some strange poo poo by Pick, so either a doctoral thesis or something from her bookmarks of wired internet pages.
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Zil posted:Some strange poo poo by Pick, so either a doctoral thesis or something from her bookmarks of wired internet pages. It's not by me, I think Paladiunus was the one who originally found them. they're incredible.
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Zil posted:That was only September when they said that. Watching the coming collapse of for-profit college is gonna be some wild poo poo
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Black August posted:Watching the coming collapse of for-profit college is gonna be some wild poo poo
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Pick posted:It's not by me, I think Paladiunus was the one who originally found them. they're incredible. It really is quite the cultural artifact.
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Subjunctive posted:It really is quite the cultural artifact. someone deadass went in front of a room of people and explained this stuff goddamn chutzpah
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RIP tumblr, godspeed you crazy fucks
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https://twitter.com/AP_Sports/status/1070422156629172225
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Maybe they should stop creepily touching every motherfucker that does a toe touch in that place.
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Doggles posted:Virginia College lost their accreditation overnight. This isn't quite accurate. Accreditation isn't lost overnight and Virginia College wasn't accredited (their nonsensical statement of being "fully accredited" notwithstanding as you are either accredited or not); they were in a provisional status (for a votech national accrediting body ie basically garbage) and they failed to meet the standards required and were denied accreditation. They appealed this and were denied. The initial denial happened back in May. They were accredited by ACICS prior which lost ED recognition in 2015 (which DeVos is trying to undo). Not a single aspect of this happened overnight. Very lovely for the students though of course. Black August posted:Watching the coming collapse of for-profit college is gonna be some wild poo poo For profit isn't going anywhere. Under Obama it looked like the super shady for profits that relied on junk accreditation bodies (like the ACICS) were hosed, but actual regionally accredited for profit institutions are fine. The market for it is highly competitive so not all aspects are as profitable as they once were but you'll only see for profit institutions gain more marketshare especially in the non-traditional student space. With the current ED most of the diploma mills will be fine too.
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RE: Potential Tumblr replacements, obviously what should happen is that Lowtax offers them their own subforum to migrate to. He gets like a million bucks, the Tumblr users get their own place to post their porn and weird stuff in, and the mockthreads won't even have to go all that far anymore for new content, it's a win-win situation! 
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And if the forums already have a secret service agent assigned, dealing with the inevitable child porn fallout is easy peasy
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Volmarias posted:And if the forums already have a secret service agent assigned, dealing with the inevitable child porn fallout is easy peasy I think the secret service only deal with child porn if the president asks them to procure some, or if you print it on counterfeit currency.
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IIRC the're doing this because it pauses the countless lawsuits against them, or something like that.
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vyst posted:Maybe they should stop creepily touching every motherfucker that does a toe touch in that place. Why else do you think they want to work with flexible teenage girls?
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The Moon Monster posted:IIRC the're doing this because it pauses the countless lawsuits against them, or something like that. Also, doesn't this mean they dont have to pay restitution if there's no money left after bankruptcy? Unless I'm mixing it up with another CSA case.
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bob dobbs is dead posted:the current configuration of tumblr already has mostly-successfully migrated en masse from livejournal and reestablished the communities, tho, so they might be able to do it again I'll also add a similar thing happened c. 2010 with Digg to Reddit when they managed to completely gently caress up their own site's functionality That said i think in general there will be a shift away from large monopolistic online social media platforms back to smaller places as these kinds of place struggle to be financially viable in the long run or capable of being moderated properly (Reddit for example, I don't believe has ever turned a profit but keeps getting money from investors lol)
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Catboy Autonomist posted:I'll also add a similar thing happened c. 2010 with Digg to Reddit when they managed to completely gently caress up their own site's functionality Hell yes 2019 is the year for the SA forums!
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MarcusSA posted:Hell yes 2019 is the year for the SA forums! 
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Catboy Autonomist posted:I'll also add a similar thing happened c. 2010 with Digg to Reddit when they managed to completely gently caress up their own site's functionality reddit is basically breaking even which every investor hates the guts of and if there's a recession it'll be hard going for them
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I just want to say I'm disturbed there are at least 2 of you from that particular part of Virginia near Spotsylvania mall. That place is best forgotten. That place being Virginia, to be clear. LethalGeek has a new favorite as of 02:29 on Dec 9, 2018 |
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The 'burg is ok. At least it was for me from age zero to 19. I'd consider moving back there, honestly, if housing was cheaper and you could get gigafiber internet.
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bob dobbs is dead posted:reddit is basically breaking even I guess it helps that the bulk of the content they host is text and most of the videos and images are coming from offsite.
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bring back everybody having their own website with spinning skull gifs and under construction signs, imo
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Prokhor Zakharov posted:*artist's rendering* I find the idea of Lowtax in a dreadnought stomping around Missouri very amusing. Randaconda posted:bring back everybody having their own website with spinning skull gifs and under construction signs, imo I really do miss those olden days of the internet. Maybe MySpace will make a comeback too!
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Haifisch posted:I'm surprised it's even breaking even. In the last year or so they've been pushing their own video and image hosting over imgur/other offsite hosts. I'm not sure what they really get out of this.
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Pakled posted:In the last year or so they've been pushing their own video and image hosting over imgur/other offsite hosts. I'm not sure what they really get out of this. They want to kill imgur and want to be where people link from in order to build in link backs/make advertising easier. It is a stupid stupid plan.
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Wasn't imgur basically just an offshoot from reddit because of the hosting issues and costs?
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UCS Hellmaker posted:Wasn't imgur basically just an offshoot from reddit because of the hosting issues and costs? Why yes it was. But its different this time because
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I think we now know why Verizon couldn't afford to hire moderators for Tumblr: Verizon says its media business is essentially worthless quote:Verizon (VZ) announced Tuesday that it would take a $4.6 billion writedown on its the media unit, which includes Yahoo and AOL.
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Hoohohooohoooooly poo poo that is some mass devaluation. Guess all the fake numbers and pretend worth finally couldn’t make solid matter out of its fairy farts.
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Barudak posted:I wanna know what in Oath is worth $200 million because the only thing theyve got I know brings in any amount of money is ad-tech Apparently AOL still has a healthy dial up business.
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Rick posted:Apparently AOL still has a healthy dial up business. Are you serious? 
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