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Bring back Shark Weeks and honeypot threads.
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lohli posted:Or an official merch store, googling "somethingawful merch" comes up with a bunch of lovely cafepress type stores selling grenade logo things and awesomeface tshirts so there's got to be some kind of demand for this stuff. lol 
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Aug 31, 2016 18:43
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LoG posted:Bring back Shark Weeks and honeypot threads. They never left. 
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Aug 31, 2016 18:44
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It will be slow but when people start seeing that effortposting is rewarded and encouraged, they will want to effortpost, too. If you give shitposters negative attention people will be encouraged to shitpost just for the recognition of being a shitposter. Quietly probate people who constantly and only poo poo up threads for the sake of making GBS threads on them, and ban the truly disruptive.
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Aug 31, 2016 18:45
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Whres my avatar you fuker
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Aug 31, 2016 18:48
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Applewhite posted:I would buy the poo poo out of/design SA merchandise for days. lohli posted:Or an official merch store, googling "somethingawful merch" comes up with a bunch of lovely cafepress type stores selling grenade logo things and awesomeface tshirts so there's got to be some kind of demand for this stuff. just don't pull a fiesta cat and buy a bunch of poo poo in advance and try and hock it on people. Do those sales where X amount of people have to buy something for the order to be filled. Seriously, Ironic t-shirts you have to explain to other people are all the rage these days. Second Idea: Maddox is a whore these days desperate for attention so have an angry aging white nerd merger
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Aug 31, 2016 18:49
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Wipe the slate clean, gas or archive every thread currently in gbs and start over, be ruthless with gassing of new threads so that only the strong survive
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Aug 31, 2016 18:50
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Disappear them. Delete their accounts and their histories from the database. Ban anyone who remembers their names fondly and probate anyone else who mentions them at all. Only then will we be purified. After we have purged, purged them all.
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Aug 31, 2016 18:52
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Luvcow posted:Wipe the slate clean, gas or archive every thread currently in gbs and start over, be ruthless with gassing of new threads so that only the strong survive In it's current state, GBS wouldn't be able to get to a second page of threads worth reading.
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Aug 31, 2016 18:52
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Zzulu posted:Whres my avatar you fuker I keep trying to give you updates about it but you never respond. I figured you'd lost interest.
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Aug 31, 2016 18:52
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The "rap sheet" is kind of a point of pride with a lot of goons and a central part of Goon culture. You have to keep at least a few bad posters around so we can compare battle scars.
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Aug 31, 2016 18:54
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Beefeater posted:In it's current state, GBS wouldn't be able to get to a second page of threads worth reading. yes it would probably be very bleak for a few days, months or years 
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Aug 31, 2016 18:58
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GBS is a thriving jungle ecosystem full of life and chaos. Parts of it are dangerous or smelly or disgusting but put it all together its a miraculous web of life. I'd caution against tampering with it because, like a jungle ecosystem, even the lovely parts are important. Sure everyone hates bugs but if they all disappeared then the beautiful birds that depend on them for sustenance will disappear, too. It's not a 1:1 analogy but I think you get where I'm going.
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Aug 31, 2016 19:05
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Applewhite posted:It will be slow but when people start seeing that effortposting is rewarded and encouraged, they will want to effortpost, too. If you give shitposters negative attention people will be encouraged to shitpost just for the recognition of being a shitposter. Quietly probate people who constantly and only poo poo up threads for the sake of making GBS threads on them, and ban the truly disruptive. Do you want to be modded again? Because, this is how you get modded again.
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Aug 31, 2016 19:12
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Actually forget the Jungle analogy. It's stupid. GBS is more like a garden that's sort of gotten overgrown with weeds and bugs. You can clear out all the weeds and bugs, but it won't make your garden beautiful. You also have to plant the seeds of the flowers and vegetables you want, and give them plenty of fertilizer (which means they need a certain amount of poo poo). You can't just kill all the bugs and weeds indiscriminately because you'll take all the flowers and probiotic creatures with them.
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Aug 31, 2016 19:13
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Applewhite posted:It's not a 1:1 analogy but I think you get where I'm going. I don't but I'm hoping that its somewhere far away.
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Aug 31, 2016 19:14
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VendaGoat posted:Do you want to be modded again? Because, this is how you get modded again. I don't think I can make the time commitment it would take to be a good mod.
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Aug 31, 2016 19:14
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Applewhite posted:GBS is a thriving jungle ecosystem full of life and chaos. Parts of it are dangerous or smelly or disgusting but put it all together its a miraculous web of life. I'd caution against tampering with it because, like a jungle ecosystem, even the lovely parts are important. Sure everyone hates bugs but if they all disappeared then the beautiful birds that depend on them for sustenance will disappear, too. I strongly disagree. It is not in any way, shape or form "thriving", its hasn't thrived for years, there are a few hidden gems but they are few and far between.
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Aug 31, 2016 19:15
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Luvcow posted:I strongly disagree. It is not in any way, shape or form "thriving", its hasn't thrived for years, there are a few hidden gems but they are few and far between.
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Aug 31, 2016 19:17
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I'm not a big fan of the "effort" threads because I find the humor usually lacking, so please if it's all photoshop phridays and CYOAs from now on, maybe make a second "poo poo GBS" forum where all the drunks can migrate to.
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Aug 31, 2016 19:20
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FactsAreUseless posted:It's like a desert. It's hosed up, unlivable, and nobody really wants to be there except people who can't go anywhere else, but it's also home to some cool kinds of dung beetles. Woah, it's not as bad a Phoenix.
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Aug 31, 2016 19:21
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dare signed me up for a bunch of text message spam lol
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Aug 31, 2016 19:21
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Many times a low effort post will turn into a thriving thread. Like the tech relics thread. It's doing well because it's the type of thread that us depressed middle age IT professionals enjoy.
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Aug 31, 2016 19:21
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Luvcow posted:I strongly disagree. It is not in any way, shape or form "thriving", its hasn't thrived for years, there are a few hidden gems but they are few and far between. That's why I threw out the jungle analogy. FactsAreUseless posted:It's like a desert. It's hosed up, unlivable, and nobody really wants to be there except people who can't go anywhere else, but it's also home to some cool kinds of dung beetles. However you want to look at it. The solution to make it more full of life isn't to kill the life that's there but to bring to it the elements that encourage the life you want.
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Aug 31, 2016 19:22
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mike12345 posted:I'm not a big fan of the "effort" threads because I find the humor usually lacking, so please if it's all photoshop phridays and CYOAs from now on, maybe make a second "poo poo GBS" forum where all the drunks can migrate to. Germstore posted:Many times a low effort post will turn into a thriving thread. Like the tech relics thread. It's doing well because it's the type of thread that us depressed middle age IT professionals enjoy. Exactly. GBS needs all different kinds of posts.
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Aug 31, 2016 19:24
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Sid Vicious posted:dare signed me up for a bunch of text message spam lol maybe you should not have repeatedly doxxed yourself on these forums sid
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Aug 31, 2016 19:24
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What do you want, a loving gold star for not posting like poo poo?
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Aug 31, 2016 19:25
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GlitchThief posted:What do you want, a loving gold star for not posting like poo poo? For starters.
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Aug 31, 2016 19:26
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rear end posted:maybe you should not have repeatedly doxxed yourself on these forums sid to be fair it had nothing to do with that my phone isn't under my name he got my number because I called him
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Aug 31, 2016 19:27
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Look if it weren't literally tested and proven to work on these very forums I wouldn't suggest it, but the fact is the good thread contests produced a lot of good threads and raised the overall level of GBS quality.
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Aug 31, 2016 19:28
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disco volante posted:I've watched GBS evolve over many years into what it is today, and I actually quite like the current tone. It would be nice if effortposts weren't immediately poo poo on, but I think the current mix of medium effort/low effort/white noise does strike a pretty funny balance. The main time I see people give someone poo poo for an effortpost is when a thread has an already casual atmosphere and then someone comes in to make a lengthy post trying to derail the discussion into a debate about guns or cops or whatever. Good effort threads? They're not as common as the low effort threads but if they're good they're well received. The serious replies are mixed in with not so serious replies and low effort jokes. I don't see any problem with that. People were very positive about the recent/ongoing thread where a guy is scanning old books from the Soviet Union and praising the op for his work, and not every post needs to have a super serious tone for that discussion to work.
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Aug 31, 2016 19:29
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It occurs to me that having a discussion about the future of GBS in a thread about Reddit may not see the participation it may were the thread titled more accurately.
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Aug 31, 2016 19:32
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c-spam has a ton of IK's who seem to be doing a good job since all they can do is 6 hour probate someone so maybe try that or something
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Aug 31, 2016 19:32
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Applewhite posted:Look if it weren't literally tested and proven to work on these very forums I wouldn't suggest it, but the fact is the good thread contests produced a lot of good threads and raised the overall level of GBS quality. Those contests were good. Also stickying interesting/promising threads for a little while, but not for too long, to help them get a little more attention I think is a good way to encourage the kind of content mods want to see. One of the mods, I'm guessing Betamax, did a pretty good job of that.
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Aug 31, 2016 19:33
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Pendent posted:It occurs to me that having a discussion about the future of GBS in a thread about Reddit may not see the participation it may were the thread titled more accurately. Well at least GBS has a future. Reddit is gonna rot on the vine the second some new, even stupider way of circlejerking is invented. Say what you will about these dead gay forums but we're still here even though b y all accounts we should have been superceded by now.
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Aug 31, 2016 19:34
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I think we can all bond if we meet up at Burger King. I'm buying. I'll even give you all a kiss
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Aug 31, 2016 19:34
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Captain Yossarian posted:I think we can all bond if we meet up at Burger King. I'm buying. I'll even give you all a kiss I'd be down to meet some goons IRL. Every time I see a very fat/nerdy looking person my heart swells with hope and I ask them if they have stairs in their house. So far I haven't met any goons but I will not give up looking.
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Aug 31, 2016 19:36
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I decided I'm not going to see Sausage Party by Seth Rogan. After heavy analysis I think there are better things i can do with my time.
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Aug 31, 2016 19:36
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I could paint a picture. Write some more of that novel I had in mind. Go for a walk in the park. See another movie.
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Aug 31, 2016 19:37
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Applewhite posted:Look if it weren't literally tested and proven to work on these very forums I wouldn't suggest it, but the fact is the good thread contests produced a lot of good threads and raised the overall level of GBS quality. Good thread contests only work if a good idea for a thread isn't immediately bogged down by shitposting. Rewarding good posting does nothing to discourage bad posting, so you might get an increase in people trying to post good threads, but you'll still have people making GBS threads on those threads.
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