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TerminalRaptor posted:Strange how that seems to be a common theme with people who work with lowtax yeah g0m has a text chain of lowtax not paying them for front page articles
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remember when logan was planning the new SA media empire and started out by telling everyone that they weren't going to pay for content to build the site? then after that went in a predictable direction, lowtax stepped in and got mad at everyone for believing they weren't going to pay for content, because they've always paid for content. to their own detriment even, because those dang internet writers were just so darn flaky, they can't be trusted. "we've always withheld payment from our content creators. for 20 years i've been running this site, it's always been like this."
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Jun 25, 2020 15:47
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BoldFrankensteinMir posted:Seconded strongly, this place is not even close to worst. I've been ripped off more than enough times to know a deadbeat client from a real one, and SA is a real client. There are delays sometimes but that's true in this kind of work even when there's not a global emergency going on.
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Jun 25, 2020 15:52
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it's forums software, michael, how complicated could it be?????
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Jun 25, 2020 15:58
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new media person explains the in-line and following ads I saw on the front page last week. imagine thinking the solution to lack of income being ad placements in tyool 2020.
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DamnGlitch posted:on the front page on the what
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aeflux posted:it's forums software, michael, how complicated could it be????? is there a reason the current software was never set to read-only and a new platform used with only a transfer of user account details? ive seen sites do that before to avoid wasting time and effort to bring years of threads over and still have them for reference
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Jun 25, 2020 17:01
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El Mero Mero posted:I mean most members are either lurkers, buried into a few megathreads, or just here for some casual shitposts. It takes a lot of drama to spread out and reach most of the forums. Hey I got this account when I was 13 years old (almost 25 now!) and I can attest that it has absolutely hosed up my personality and general outlook on life, and I'm sure yours too. All you can say is that you're not a wife-beating piece of poo poo on top of that (I hope)
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Agile Vector posted:is there a reason the current software was never set to read-only and a new platform used with only a transfer of user account details? ive seen sites do that before to avoid wasting time and effort to bring years of threads over and still have them for reference because effort and lowtax would have had to pay someone to do that, and i don't know if you've noticed a pattern here, but there may be some reticence on his part to pay people for things relating to the development of the something awful dot com forums
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Jun 25, 2020 17:10
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iirc lowtax had always been insistent that the archives/goldmine get moved over to any new platform for some reason. never understood why they didn’t just render that poo poo as flat files and move on, it’s not like we super need to know what anyone’s current username is if you’re reading a e/n thread from 2007
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Jun 25, 2020 17:25
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infernal machines posted:because effort and lowtax would have had to pay someone to do that, and i don't know if you've noticed a pattern here, but there may be some reticence on his part to pay people for things relating to the development of the something awful dot com forums how many $200 apple pies a month must he sacrifice??
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Jun 25, 2020 17:37
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qirex posted:iirc lowtax had always been insistent that the archives/goldmine get moved over to any new platform for some reason. never understood why they didn’t just render that poo poo as flat files and move on, it’s not like we super need to know what anyone’s current username is if you’re reading a e/n thread from 2007 I feel like this has to do a lot with a certain era of forums culture that he can’t abandon for himself
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Jun 25, 2020 17:54
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qirex posted:iirc lowtax had always been insistent that the archives/goldmine get moved over to any new platform for some reason. never understood why they didn’t just render that poo poo as flat files and move on, it’s not like we super need to know what anyone’s current username is if you’re reading a e/n thread from 2007 it would actually be a marked improvement since the quote template bakes the username into the post and doesn't update when the sidebar does, so old threads become harder to read over time
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Jun 25, 2020 18:09
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we are taking about a guy who, after 20 years of running this site, has not managed to learn enough php and database programming to perform basic maintenance, much less actually improve things. an idiot.
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Jun 25, 2020 18:18
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yeah that’s why i make my posts hard to read right off the bat
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Jun 25, 2020 18:18
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lowtax is the fyad poster that can't be banned
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Jun 25, 2020 18:23
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The Management posted:we are taking about a guy who, after 20 years of running this site, has not managed to learn enough php and database programming to perform basic maintenance, much less actually improve things. an idiot. I think about this a lot. In the time I've been here I've gotten a bachelors and masters degree in computer science (not top 50 thou, shameful) and then spent 10 years or so in the industry. How long really would it have taken to just take a couple of programming courses and start dabbling? Especially with no concerns about money really, either directly from the forums or indirectly by being internet famous enough to pull down nearly 10k a month from patreon.
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Jun 25, 2020 18:28
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lowtax last idea of improving the forum was to turn on all the annoying cloudflare scriptlets like auto refresh, I shudder to think what would have happened if he tried to write new forum code
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Jun 25, 2020 18:31
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i dont know poo poo about php but i'm pretty sure i could have learned it with the kind of passive income dude's been making.
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Jun 25, 2020 18:32
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The Management posted:has not managed to learn enough php and database programming to perform basic maintenance, much less actually improve things. an idiot. so here, in yospos, we're saying that a dude who successfully avoided touching computers for 20 years, and touching them with php nonetheless, is somehow an idiot?
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Jun 25, 2020 18:49
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gentlemen,
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Jun 25, 2020 18:49
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point taken, but in our defense he is demonstrably an idiot for other reasons.
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:point taken, but in our defense he is demonstrably an idiot for other reasons. no contest there
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Jun 25, 2020 18:58
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rotor posted:gentlemen, ok but what if all our base belonged to us
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Jun 25, 2020 18:59
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rotor posted:so here, in yospos, we're saying that a dude who successfully avoided touching computers for 20 years, and touching them with php nonetheless, is somehow an idiot? 20 years is plenty of time to learn elixr and then rewrite the forums in it
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rotor posted:so here, in yospos, we're saying that a dude who successfully avoided touching computers for 20 years, and touching them with php nonetheless, is somehow an idiot? yeah, uh, that was an odd point to make. r u ready to WALK posted:lowtax last idea of improving the forum was to turn on all the annoying cloudflare scriptlets like auto refresh, I shudder to think what would have happened if he tried to write new forum code or, more recently, when he added some ad code that started injecting stuff all over the place for anyone not using an ad blocker, and didn't mention it to the admin
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Jun 25, 2020 19:17
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infernal machines posted:or, more recently, when he added some ad code that started injecting stuff all over the place for anyone not using an ad blocker, and didn't mention it to the admin lowtax is the guy who thought adbot was a good idea
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Jun 25, 2020 21:43
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css innovations like breaking it by changing font sizes instead of zooming the page in on his home machine
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Jun 25, 2020 22:04
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really the list, unlike the forums, writes itself
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infernal machines posted:or, more recently, when he added some ad code that started injecting stuff all over the place for anyone not using an ad blocker, and didn't mention it to the admin or, also recently, when he decided to test the new forum-wide popup announcement feature by setting it to goatse
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on the bright side, at least this whole mess isn't another reiserfs really just different flavours of horrible though
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haveblue posted:or, also recently, when he decided to test the new forum-wide popup announcement feature by setting it to goatse i posted about a css thing he did with a guys head floating across the screen in gbs, laughing at how much he enjoyed trolling the userbase with random changes and he got real pissy about it
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Acer Pilot posted:on the bright side, at least this whole mess isn't another reiserfs yet
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Jun 25, 2020 23:48
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dude that is kind of a hosed up thing to say
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truly, something awful
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so f*cked up... and yet i cant stop laughing.. im going to hell for this..
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Jun 26, 2020 00:14
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DuckConference posted:dude that is kind of a hosed up thing to say yeah, but i really do worry about the safety of everyone involved and hope that they all turn out ok and get therapy
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Jun 26, 2020 00:28
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where's the part where someone tries to sell it to Verizon for its pageviews
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Jun 26, 2020 01:01
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just as soon as lowtax figures out how to roll back the post database two days
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infernal machines posted:just as soon as lowtax figures out how to roll back the post database two days Why roll it back? Just show how much user engagement is rising (and not mention why)
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