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Prester Jane posted:***TRIGGER WARNING***This is an effort OP meant to attract effortposts in response. If you find the act of putting effort into internet posting to be personally triggering then this thread will be extremely upsetting to you and you are hereby cautioned against reading it. ***TRIGGER WARNING*** It is a jokes forum from a jokes website. The best way to fit in is just try to be funny. Some jokes will fall flat and other will create memorable threads. If you aren't trying to be funny you are in the wrong place
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OXBALLS DOT COM posted:Being rude to people to see how they handle it is a useful technique. You can see if they are smart, funny people just pretending to be self-important or if they actually are self-important and foolish by how they react and what kind of actions they take. Being rude to people who are rude as some kind of funny secret game they play is also a really useful technique. Or, eat poo poo and die nerd.
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You can give as good as you get, or just ignore it, or anything really. Basically, if they go crying to the mods saying it's intolerance of long posts or *-phobia then they are morons
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Nov 27, 2017 02:34
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Quidam Viator posted:
While 4chan and Reddit (and I'd say Reddit is more the big cheese now) are now the big kings of internet discussion, SA still manages to do a good job of showing them up from time to time. ShitRedditSays was the Reddit devil for a long while (and if I remember right, SA started that reddit), and the massive banning of all things kiddie porn related from Reddit was caused by SA as well. On a different note, it's interesting to me that SA seems like it has never really had any major influence on Facebook or Twitter. Something Awful was always grounded in some form of anonymity, where users were known by created user names, much like 4chan (though many users just use Anonymous) or Reddit, both of which I'd consider to be derivative of SA. I can't think of any time in which any of these groups actually tried to invade the social media communities as they were starting up. Was it because they tended to use real identities vs anonymity?
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How good are the PYF funny quotes and saga threads in covering SA history? I think they'd be pretty good resource in refreshing the memories of the forums methuselahs that are still active. I love this thread by the way, managed to get past the inevitable volley of one-line shitposts that kill off a lot of threads. I'd love to know more about the arcane secrets that even the PYF threads haven't covered.
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Nov 27, 2017 02:37
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Reddit is unreadable as discussion because it's basically 10 pages of slightly different hot takes directed at the original post, and then worthless commentary attached to each one.
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School Nickname posted:How good are the PYF funny quotes and saga threads in covering SA history? I think they'd be pretty good resource in refreshing the memories of the forums methuselahs that are still active. It's not the shitposts that kill threads, it's that nobody else is interested so the thread dies on its own and the only thing you can see is shitposts.
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Nov 27, 2017 02:39
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Willias posted:On a different note, it's interesting to me that SA seems like it has never really had any major influence on Facebook or Twitter. goons were some of the first people to use and play around twitter and were pretty responsible for what it is now, if that's a good thing or not idk
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Nov 27, 2017 02:40
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OXBALLS DOT COM posted:You can give as good as you get, or just ignore it, or anything really. Basically, if they go crying to the mods saying it's intolerance of long posts or *-phobia then they are morons Stop whining about your unfunny friends getting the boot.
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Willias posted:On a different note, it's interesting to me that SA seems like it has never really had any major influence on Facebook or Twitter. Something Awful was always grounded in some form of anonymity, where users were known by created user names, much like 4chan (though many users just use Anonymous) or Reddit, both of which I'd consider to be derivative of SA. I can't think of any time in which any of these groups actually tried to invade the social media communities as they were starting up. Was it because they tended to use real identities vs anonymity? I'd disagree w/r/t twitter, @dril and similar accounts were all ex-FYAD posters. Maybe that's not a "major" influence though
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Nov 27, 2017 02:42
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Who What Now posted:Stop whining about your unfunny friends getting the boot. Swing and a miss. I don't think you understand what is going on.
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School Nickname posted:How good are the PYF funny quotes and saga threads in covering SA history? I think they'd be pretty good resource in refreshing the memories of the forums methuselahs that are still active. Later tonight I will do a big ole effortpost about the origins of 4chan (it was us and our rejects- Moot was a goon and used to post threads inviting people to try his experimental website), how we sorta disowned 4chan then briefly welcomed them back into the fold during Chanology (an event during which we invented the modern concept of doxxing and social media warfare), how we (well mostly us anyways) reinvented Anonymous in our own image to transform it from a tool for online harassment into a social hactivism movement, and then how we walked away from what w had created because we never expected it to become the primary tool for literal white supremacists to make a comeback in the US.
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Nov 27, 2017 02:43
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Koyaanisgoatse posted:I'd disagree w/r/t twitter, @dril and similar accounts were all ex-FYAD posters. Maybe that's not a "major" influence though Social media is so dispersed and fragmented that there's really no "major" influences at all beyond things like current events, which doesn't really count.
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School Nickname posted:How good are the PYF funny quotes and saga threads in covering SA history? I think they'd be pretty good resource in refreshing the memories of the forums methuselahs that are still active. Ah , something I can she'd some light on. Specific funny " sagas" of particular posters are well covered, all the biggies are referenced over and over, like Groverhaus, Texarrakis, Many more BUT all context is lost. And no history of SA is in there, like of specific forums; they are just floating in space. That's why the input of long time posters is vital.
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Nov 27, 2017 02:43
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OXBALLS DOT COM posted:Swing and a miss. I don't think you understand what is going on. A poor deflection
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Nov 27, 2017 02:45
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d0s posted:goons were some of the first people to use and play around twitter and were pretty responsible for what it is now, if that's a good thing or not idk Probably not. Twitter is like some weird rear end "I wanna be facebook but I also wanna be reddit" mess where people try use it as some bullshit blog platform and then get super angry when the internet rains on their parade. Then again, that might be part of the influence, if not from SA then from Reddit and 4chan. It's like Facebook users want a place to talk to random people, but there are also 4chan users and all they want to do is make random people mad. Reading a lot of Twitter is the internet equivalent of watching someone try to mix water and oil. Edit: Except you can also probably just go to Youtube and watch someone try and mix water and oil so maybe that comparison doesn't work but whatever.
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Nov 27, 2017 02:46
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OXBALLS DOT COM posted:You can give as good as you get, or just ignore it, or anything really. Basically, if they go crying to the mods saying it's intolerance of long posts or *-phobia then they are morons Look I get it. You are a Nazi and you hate the fact that I'm trans and you have a long pattern of stalking/harassing any thread I post in GBS. (You are also pissed that most of your buddies who used to join in are now banned.) Now that we have that cleared up can we move on please?
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Spinster posted:Ah , something I can she'd some light on. Specific funny " sagas" of particular posters are well covered, all the biggies are referenced over and over, like Groverhaus, Texarrakis, Many more BUT all context is lost. And no history of SA is in there, like of specific forums; they are just floating in space. That's why the input of long time posters is vital. Early D&D was actually a fun place to be because the mods were pretty on the ball about being non-judgmental and basically only punishing people for having meltdowns. The old libertarian threads were great for this because most of those guys knew nothignn about economics beyond their tiny weirdo fishpond of austrian thought or whatever and they just couldn't deal. Also the gimmick nazis/tankies/etc. were kept in check so they were funny without taking over or just being driven out.
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The old "goon virginity/dating" megathreads in E/N had their share of great moments. A lot of it was back and forth between well-adjusted posters wanting to give advice, and posters who we would now describe as neckbeards and/or incels. There was one dude I remember who uncharacteristically took the thread's advice to get a haircut and better clothes. Then he went out to a bar, tried to talk to some girls and flubbed it, and came back to the thread to make an unhinged rant about how this was all bullshit and he was going to stick to groping underage girls at concerts. Prime stuff. That aside, though, I was going through a rough patch when I discovered E/N back in like 2009, and those threads had some genuinely helpful advice in regard to self-improvement such that I probably wouldn't be who I am today without them
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Prester Jane posted:Look I get it. You are a Nazi and you hate the fact that I'm trans and you have a long pattern of stalking/harassing any thread I post in GBS. (You are also pissed that most of your buddies who used to join in are now banned.) Now that we have that cleared up can we move on please? I actually don't know you and have anything against you personally so maybe stop being so self-important? I don't have any network of "buddies", and not everything is a giant conspiracy against you.
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OXBALLS DOT COM posted:I actually don't know you and have anything against you personally so maybe stop being so self-important? I don't have any network of "buddies", and not everything is a giant conspiracy against you. You know people can read your post history, right? And your rap sheet?
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Who What Now posted:You know people can read your post history, right? And your rap sheet? I encourage everybody to read my words, and leave it to the public to draw their own conclusions. Now please stop dogpiling this derail.
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OXBALLS DOT COM posted:I encourage everybody to read my words, and leave it to the public to draw their own conclusions. Now please stop dogpiling this derail. Your only contributions have been about how you hate the current mods for banning DGSW and that people who report bigotry are ruining this site. You deserve to be dogpiled.
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Ox Balls I realize you think it's PJ that's being self-important here, but you're really one-man-showing this "derail" you're talking about if anything
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this is a fascinating thread and it's being shat up by oxballs being a bad poster. what is it about Silent Majority avatars and going into "i'm just asking questions" mode whenever they're called out for being awful?
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Waffle House posted:Ox Balls I realize you think it's PJ that's being self-important here, but you're really one-man-showing this "derail" you're talking about if anything I never started any of this. It's not my fault weirdo stalkers follow me around and make scurrilous accusations (look it up they have a long history of this behavior). They should cool it with the callout derails or else make a separate thread for them. Either way, this is the end and I'm not rising to their slanders anymore. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:It is a jokes forum from a jokes website. The best way to fit in is just try to be funny. Some jokes will fall flat and other will create memorable threads. If you aren't trying to be funny you are in the wrong place I probably shouldn't be posting at 3 am but this is the kinda thing I don't understand. A lot of the older regdates say this a a joke forum but it just really isn't anymore. I guess fyad and byob maybe? But this forum is really just a place to talk about whatever, which obviously does also include making jokes. The forum hasn't been about comedy specifically for ages and I doubt it's gonna lead another cultural revolution in that regard. Actually this forum is also pretty interesting in how completely split is. Like even if some posters are the same the cultures between subforums, hell between threads, are insanely different.
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haha remember that period like a year ago when GBS was basically /pol haha that was really good and should happen again. you idiots can't handle disruption
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Koyaanisgoatse posted:A lot of it was back and forth between well-adjusted posters wanting to give advice, and posters who we would now describe as neckbeards and/or incels.
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Absum posted:I probably shouldn't be posting at 3 am but this is the kinda thing I don't understand. A lot of the older regdates say this a a joke forum but it just really isn't anymore. I guess fyad and byob maybe? But this forum is really just a place to talk about whatever, which obviously does also include making jokes. The forum hasn't been about comedy specifically for ages and I doubt it's gonna lead another cultural revolution in that regard. Comedy is an attitude. You can see this in how that approach flavors the specialist subforums such as AI, etc., even though they have very few discrete "jokes".
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Manchild King posted:You forgot the third group of radical feminists. It's interesting how everyone remembers history differently. I honestly don't remember them being a significant presence. Then again, if your red text is an actual quote of yours, I feel like we may have different definitions of "radical feminist"
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d0s posted:haha remember that period like a year ago when GBS was basically /pol haha that was really good and should happen again. you idiots can't handle disruption Manchild King posted:You forgot the third group of radical feminists. It's interesting how everyone remembers history differently. 
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Absum posted:I probably shouldn't be posting at 3 am but this is the kinda thing I don't understand. A lot of the older regdates say this a a joke forum but it just really isn't anymore. I guess fyad and byob maybe? But this forum is really just a place to talk about whatever, which obviously does also include making jokes. The forum hasn't been about comedy specifically for ages and I doubt it's gonna lead another cultural revolution in that regard. you joined for LPs, I didn't read that poo poo but wasn't it just goons making jokes about video games
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The Story of Something Awful thread derailing into unwitting performance art showcasing the actual shitflinging nature of SA was a fun plot twist
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Pissed Ape Sexist posted:The Story of Something Awful thread derailing into unwitting performance art showcasing the actual shitflinging nature of SA was a fun plot twist We are not amused.
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I totally joined this forum because I read the front page articles and it struck me right
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Cliff Yablonsky was a great man RIP
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OXBALLS DOT COM posted:Comedy is an attitude. You can see this in how that approach flavors the specialist subforums such as AI, etc., even though they have very few discrete "jokes". Eh I agree that this forum has a unique uuh google translate says ambiance but idk that I would call that itself comedy or even a comedy focus. People are pretty "jokey" yeah but I at least also value them for the ability to not cross the line and be serious at times, and as said I wouldn't really consider it a comedy focus anyway. To me that implies the entire forum being like the coloured ones, or like some sorta comedian convention were people try out jokes. d0s posted:you joined for LPs, I didn't read that poo poo but wasn't it just goons making jokes about video games I joined because I was pissed I missed the end to a good cyoa in gbs because the forum was locked to non-members for a month. I'd read like 2.5 lp's at that point probably and was mostly hanging around for the gbs newsfeed lol
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