|
I Said No posted:nah definitely wasn't kewpuh Wasn't it eggplant wizard?
|
#
?
Mar 11, 2017 16:53
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 17, 2024 18:15 |
|
|
My memory might be faulty, but I seem to remember a GBS thread popping up mocking Elliot Rodger after a goon discovered him literally a day or two before he went on a rampage. Watching it going from "haha look at this guy" to "holy poo poo he actually did it" was pretty weird.
|
|
#
?
Mar 11, 2017 21:32
|
|
|
Ludicro posted:My memory might be faulty, but I seem to remember a GBS thread popping up mocking Elliot Rodger after a goon discovered him literally a day or two before he went on a rampage. Watching it going from "haha look at this guy" to "holy poo poo he actually did it" was pretty weird. The Solid Elliot video was pretty cool but I don't know if a goon made it 
|
|
#
?
Mar 11, 2017 21:35
|
|
|
sweeperbravo posted:Wasn't it eggplant wizard? eggplant wizard banned people for capitalization, spelling, memes/macros, excessive sarcasm, and all kinds of other poo poo. not a great mod. it sounds like her life really got hosed up by those angry losers who doxxed her though so i just feel sorry for her now.
|
|
#
?
Mar 11, 2017 22:40
|
|
|
Capitalization/Punctuation was a forums-wide rule a few years ago, it's not like it was one or two rogue mods who deemed it their vision of the forum
|
|
#
?
Mar 11, 2017 22:42
|
|
|
I misspelled a word! I deserve a ban! 
|
|
#
?
Mar 11, 2017 22:45
|
|
|
VendaGoat posted:I deserve a ban!
|
|
#
?
Mar 11, 2017 22:48
|
|
|
Been there, done that. You should try it once.
|
|
#
?
Mar 11, 2017 22:49
|
|
|
For a long time the strict grammar enforcement was one of the forums hallmarks. Along with the paywall it was what made the forums seem lofty and respectable, because while anyone with access to a credit card could get in, you were put on kind of a trial by fire to determine whether you could stay. It was kind of dumb in retrospect, but when the alternatives were 4chan and ... what, NeoGAF? It kept things a little bit above the rest.
|
|
#
?
Mar 11, 2017 22:52
|
|
|
Heath posted:For a long time the strict grammar enforcement was one of the forums hallmarks. Along with the paywall it was what made the forums seem lofty and respectable, because while anyone with access to a credit card could get in, you were put on kind of a trial by fire to determine whether you could stay. It was kind of dumb in retrospect, but when the alternatives were 4chan and ... what, NeoGAF? It kept things a little bit above the rest. Even with those strict standards relaxed, SA is still the best forum to read. It's not so much SA having high standards as the rest of the internet having gotten much, much worse.
|
|
#
?
Mar 11, 2017 23:16
|
|
|
Alaois posted:Capitalization/Punctuation was a forums-wide rule a few years ago, it's not like it was one or two rogue mods who deemed it their vision of the forum some people would let it slide if the poster was still comprehensible, though, whereas some really got their root on from Ensuring Shift Keys Were Pressed nj4b and kewpuh were nuts for it, to the extent that kewpuh used to have animated avatars of some koopa wizard jumping on shift keys
|
|
#
?
Mar 11, 2017 23:53
|
|
|
Yeah, the degree of our decline is minuscule compared to literally the rest of the social internet.
|
|
#
?
Mar 11, 2017 23:54
|
|
|
SomethingAwful is and has been the best forum for noise to content ratio. Where else can I poo poo up a thread about terrible occurrences and minutes later honestly discuss financial planning and stock tips?
|
|
#
?
Mar 12, 2017 00:06
|
|
|
I think SA is unique for being a discussion board for the sake of discussion. Not a car owner board, or an industry board. It's a giant room of people talking about whatever. "What's it about?" "It's a forum." "A forum for?" "Posting."
|
|
#
?
Mar 12, 2017 00:56
|
|
|
It remains unique because now everything is either unmoderated hellholes where whoever who just posts the most "wins" or personal blogs that become insane echo chambers. Here you have to vouch for yourself, most of the time.
|
|
#
?
Mar 12, 2017 01:00
|
|
|
If sa dies I'll just stop chatting online anywhere
|
|
#
?
Mar 12, 2017 01:02
|
|
|
The Secret Service showing up to Lowatx's door and then closing LF was something else Does the SS troll the internet for presidential death threats or did the LF crew do something blatantly stupid?
|
|
#
?
Mar 12, 2017 01:03
|
|
|
Nissin Cup Nudist posted:The Secret Service showing up to Lowatx's door and then closing LF was something else Wait, what? 
|
|
#
?
Mar 12, 2017 01:06
|
|
|
Nissin Cup Nudist posted:The Secret Service showing up to Lowatx's door and then closing LF was something else If I remember right someone threatened to kill the president and did the whole ironic-but-not-really shtick and probably some reader tipped them off. Then Lowtax threw down the glove, closed LF just as Twitter was coming into its own as a platform for terrible opinions and the acronym "SJW" started popping up all over the place. I remember seeing it here first.
|
|
#
?
Mar 12, 2017 01:17
|
|
|
Did he really have to explain goatse to the secret service or is that just a joke from the whole thing?
|
|
#
?
Mar 12, 2017 01:19
|
|
|
Elsa posted:I think SA is unique for being a discussion board for the sake of discussion. Not a car owner board, or an industry board. It's a giant room of people talking about whatever. Sometimes I tell people about something like a deck list I saw in the Magic The Gathering thread here, and they get the idea that SA is a big card game forum or something. It's hard to explain to people what SA is. My girlfriend was looking over my shoulder once and started asking what the various subforums were and there was only so many times I could explain, "Oh that one's for ironic shitposting" before she got it. How do you even define SA compared to the rest of the internet?
|
|
#
?
Mar 12, 2017 01:27
|
|
|
Heath posted:If I remember right someone threatened to kill the president and did the whole ironic-but-not-really shtick and probably some reader tipped them off. Then Lowtax threw down the glove, closed LF just as Twitter was coming into its own as a platform for terrible opinions and the acronym "SJW" started popping up all over the place. I remember seeing it here first. Someone made a thread in LF titled "Goon Project: Lets Assassinate President Barak Hussein Obama!" like the joke was goon projects never go anywhere, I guess? but yeah they didn't get the 'joke' and the secret service got involved
|
|
#
?
Mar 12, 2017 01:29
|
|
|
whiteyfats posted:Wait, what? people in LF were posting things that appeared to be physical threats toward the president of the united states. the feds showed up and lowtax was all hell naw
|
|
#
?
Mar 12, 2017 01:32
|
|
|
BJPaskoff posted:Sometimes I tell people about something like a deck list I saw in the Magic The Gathering thread here, and they get the idea that SA is a big card game forum or something. It's hard to explain to people what SA is. My girlfriend was looking over my shoulder once and started asking what the various subforums were and there was only so many times I could explain, "Oh that one's for ironic shitposting" before she got it. How do you even define SA compared to the rest of the internet? I've had to explain to my co-workers that I was getting all this information on politics and the primary from "election erection"
|
|
#
?
Mar 12, 2017 01:34
|
|
|
Solice Kirsk posted:Did he really have to explain goatse to the secret service or is that just a joke from the whole thing? I'm pretty sure that was Twisty. Former FYAD poster Twisty posted a GBS thread parodying the Obama craze in 2008 GBS by advocating for the assassination of McCain and got a visit from the SS. If I remember correctly, they had a printout of the thread but he had edited his post out when he realized he could actually get in trouble for it so the SS had to print off someone who quoted him and responded with Goatse. This was about a decade ago obviously so I may have some details wrong but I think that's the gist of it.
|
|
#
?
Mar 12, 2017 01:46
|
|
|
BJPaskoff posted:How do you even define SA compared to the rest of the internet? I used to say that the forums on SA were like New York, in that it was massive, had anything you'd want (from a forum), some people were terrible, others were awesome, and that you'd never get bored. That was before Reddit. And I mean that for other people. 90% of Reddit is terrible, and the other 10% are all Digg-like links to stuff you actually care about, outside of the site. I still think of SA the same, but I now describe it as "nevermind, you wouldn't understand."
|
|
#
?
Mar 12, 2017 02:07
|
|
|
I just say SomethingAwful is the inside joke of the internet.
|
|
#
?
Mar 12, 2017 02:11
|
|
|
Rupert Buttermilk posted:I used to say that the forums on SA were like New York, in that it was massive, had anything you'd want (from a forum), some people were terrible, others were awesome, and that you'd never get bored. So if SA is NYC, that makes Reddit ... New Delhi?
|
|
#
?
Mar 12, 2017 02:25
|
|
|
Chuck Buried Treasure posted:I'm pretty sure that was Twisty. Former FYAD poster Twisty posted a GBS thread parodying the Obama craze in 2008 GBS by advocating for the assassination of McCain and got a visit from the SS. If I remember correctly, they had a printout of the thread but he had edited his post out when he realized he could actually get in trouble for it so the SS had to print off someone who quoted him and responded with Goatse. This was about a decade ago obviously so I may have some details wrong but I think that's the gist of it. It was the FBI: http://archive.is/20150716235636/forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3474776&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=18
|
|
#
?
Mar 12, 2017 02:51
|
|
|
VendaGoat posted:Been there, done that. You should try it once. VendaGoat posted:I deserve a ban!
|
|
#
?
Mar 12, 2017 03:47
|
|
|
I'm trying to phish out if the SS will show up on my door if I post "negative" things about President Cheeto
|
|
#
?
Mar 12, 2017 04:01
|
|
|
More like oldbanless!
|
|
#
?
Mar 12, 2017 05:44
|
|
|
Keith Atherton posted:It was the FBI: So I was off on a few details re: goatse-ing the FBI: Saint Twisty posted:other highlights include
|
|
#
?
Mar 12, 2017 05:52
|
|
|
BJPaskoff posted:Sometimes I tell people about something like a deck list I saw in the Magic The Gathering thread here, and they get the idea that SA is a big card game forum or something. It's hard to explain to people what SA is. My girlfriend was looking over my shoulder once and started asking what the various subforums were and there was only so many times I could explain, "Oh that one's for ironic shitposting" before she got it. How do you even define SA compared to the rest of the internet? I'd say it would be self-limiting to declare SA as being about a particular thing. But if I had to place it I'd say maybe human stupidity and that's bottomless so
|
|
#
?
Mar 12, 2017 08:00
|
|
|
Elsa posted:I'd say it would be self-limiting to declare SA as being about a particular thing. But if I had to place it I'd say maybe human stupidity and that's bottomless so It's a room full of passages, all different. If you let the light go out, you might be eaten by a groon.
|
|
#
?
Mar 12, 2017 08:05
|
|
|
BJPaskoff posted:How do you even define SA compared to the rest of the internet? It's a BBS only with pictures and worse UI.
|
|
#
?
Mar 12, 2017 08:15
|
|
|
Sagebrush posted:eggplant wizard banned people for capitalization, spelling, memes/macros, excessive sarcasm, and all kinds of other poo poo. not a great mod. Wasn't the meme/macro banning on people who were constantly posting them outside the appropriate threads when that was explicitly a no-no in PYF and elsewhere? Also there were literally "PYF guy/gal you want to bone" threads with nude pics (no homegrown) during their time so it always boggled my mind people were that salty about EW. Maybe those just carried over from a previous mod and I'm misremembering?
|
|
#
?
Mar 12, 2017 13:44
|
|
|
There was a guy who really liked trains and seemed okay, but was way too neurotic as a mod and everyone hated him
|
|
#
?
Mar 12, 2017 15:33
|
|
|
The Saddest Rhino posted:There was a guy who really liked trains and seemed okay, but was way too neurotic as a mod and everyone hated him MEATY MARTHA nevar 4get
|
|
#
?
Mar 12, 2017 15:58
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 17, 2024 18:15 |
|
|
what? no meaty martha wasn't a mod, i think lowtax garbage day renamed some guy with a tiny bug username to that brother jonathan was the mod, and was made a mod due to the quality of his reports. after he was demodded he kept showing up to snark and say "the forums are going to poo poo!! i told you this would happen!!"
|
|
#
?
Mar 12, 2017 16:00
|
|