Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:

Good.

I will promote the site in a community-first sort of way, but I'm certainly not going to do so in service to my own ego or clout. I'd rather just quietly make the site good and try and make jokes now and then, I don't need to be an internet star. This is easily the best website on the whole stupid internet and I can only hope to share that with more people as time marches on.

bird with big dick posted:

The Great Mouse Detective sucks poo poo

e: sorry wrong thread

Hand Knit posted:

I'm glad that Lowtax never effectively monetized the site. The forums kept their integrity, even if it was through accident rather than choice.

sure okay posted:

sure okay easily claims the weed sex number

keep punching joe posted:

what was the dumb button that he put on threads to allow you to upvote/share with some third party site?

sure okay posted:

sure okay easily claims the weed sex number

Hand Knit posted:

I'm glad that Lowtax never effectively monetized the site. The forums kept their integrity, even if it was through accident rather than choice.

keep punching joe posted:

what was the dumb button that he put on threads to allow you to upvote/share with some third party site?

Hodgepodge posted:

i mean it was still helping them expose terrible assholes (their own)

sure okay posted:

sure okay easily claims the weed sex number

keep punching joe posted:

what was the dumb button that he put on threads to allow you to upvote/share with some third party site?

Lock posted:

was it fark? please tell me it was fark. I vaaaaaguely remember something like that but it might be before my regdate

Fermented Tinal posted:

Maybe, but he stopped giving a poo poo in 2004 after he started closing all the piracy subs. They were big attractors to the site and I'm sure he lost a lot of income after closing them. Think about how things really went nowhere with the site for years after that.

Stabbing Spork posted:

The same could be said for DPPH

busalover posted:

idk honestly he should have sold it in '08 at the latest.

Hand Knit posted:

I mean he would've done well for that but I don't think SA would be better for having been under the direction of Cond� Nast for the past 15 years.

Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:

There was another one added later that had links to a shitload of obscure sites. He added it through cloudflare. I removed it (and the commented out but still in the code digg button) as soon as I had access to do so.

Dexanth posted:

why dont you want to post on the bloated corpse of SomethingIsNoLongerAwful dot Com after Conde Nast sells it to Yahoo sells it to Softbank sells it to Tiktok who rebrands it Something Meta Dot Com

Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:

There was another one added later that had links to a shitload of obscure sites. He added it through cloudflare. I removed it (and the commented out but still in the code digg button) as soon as I had access to do so.

VideoGames posted:

I once sent Lowtax a PM when I was admin because I wanted the PSDs for the Forum Icons and wanted to clean up the reports forum by giving everything the same style.

He replied 9 months later with "Yeah I have them. I'll send them across."

He never pmed again.

bvj191jgl7bBsqF5m posted:

Lowtax's absolutely birdbrained schemes that would somehow help the forums in his mind were all delightfully poorly thought out. It sucked poo poo at the time but his incompetence at everything except being funny was probably the most endearing thing about him, looking back

actionjackson posted:

thank you for the forums lowtax, it was where I was told to get a greyhound which completely changed my life

Hand Knit posted:

I mean he would've done well for that but I don't think SA would be better for having been under the direction of Condé Nast for the past 15 years.

LadyAmbien posted:

Just want to pop in here quickly. The escrow was not forged, so let's wipe that rumor off the table immediately.

In regards to anyone getting messages from Rich's family regarding the GFM, leaving Rich's them alone while they grieve is for the best, even if she does message first. She's a mother who has lost her child in a very traumatic way and she is understandably struggling.

But finally, and most importantly, Thank you from the bottom of my heart for what you've done with the GoFundMe for our kids. I'm still in shock and none of it really feels real yet. This is incredible. I wish there were more or better words to express our gratitude..

EorayMel posted:

Spoggerific posted:

lmao

Is it true that all the mods/admins were walking on eggshells every time he came back, trying to avoid accidentally sending him into a tantrum? I remember something to the effect of Jeffrey found a button in the code that would permanently delete a forum and he silently disabled it not too long before the whole FYAD drama happened, and Lowtax got mad when he tried to press it and nothing happened.

RoboChrist 9000 posted:

Jeff K would have died anyway in like 2014ish the latest. Gamergate ensured that the sort of character Jeff K is/is a parody of no longer exists, really. No longer a harmless edgelord idiot teen. A modern Jeff K would be a nazi.

Blue Raider posted:

It's probably what allowed the forums to exist overtime as they are too. Anybody but the laziest person on the planet would have either monetized them or sold them 15 years ago. Ironically, his complete lack of ambition or drive is probably what allowed the forums to endure without being turned into IGN or something.

Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:

This reminds me of something i can share now. Lowtax told me he got a buyout offer from a media company for $13 million in 2006. He was still having fun with the site and turned it down. He expressed lament at this to me during our own negotiations.

I did my own digging and this was the exact year that conde nast bought reddit and within the reported price range as well. I'm glad I don't live in that timeline.