Proposal: Board for High-Profile Individuals

[Lapsus of the bepsus]

I recommend adding Matt Mullenweg the CEO of WordPress to the list

Thread 'Matt Mullenweg & Automattic/WordPress vs WP Engine'

Oct 6, 2024

A quick who's who.

Matt Mullenweg (www.ma.tt) is a co-founder of wordpress. As wordpress has gradually grown to be used by millions of websites around the world, and indeed being used for 43% of websites (archive), Matt has leveraged his position to create secondary business to grow and profit from the work gone into wordpress.

1. Wordpress.org. Matt owns and is the dictator of wordpress.org. Wordpress.org is free for anyone to to use but you need to find a host to use with it. Wordpress.org has the wordpress foundation, of which people are employed (by Automattic) and then...

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this guy is a lolcow though. his insane freakouts and the wpengine lolsuit are hilarious

i like this idea but its probably gonna buttblast some people when you insinuate a person is not a lolcow by moving their thread there

 

[Jobama]

I agree that there should be a specific category threads like Trump or Elon but I think that Kanye should still be considered a lolcow. If some random black guy was making songs about giving his cousin and and loving Hitler he would absolutely be a lolcow.

 

[Brap God]

The edge cases in this get a bit fuzzy. Sure, I’d keep Hasan Piker in the normal lolcow board, but where would you put the Young Turks thread? It’s nominally centered around people like Cenk Uyghur and Ana Kasparian—who are somewhere between high profile and internet famous—but their thread also covers the literally-whos associated with their network and crazies like Kyle Kulinski.

Talking heads do not qualify.

 

[Maori Kiwifruit Growers]

The trump extended universe board (elon, vick etc) might not have long term relevance. Trump's term has only 3 years left and then what? The man is in his 80s and it's not exactly like his first term when it was just a shit show (well people reacting to him/ the tweets). Also if the "anti-trump" side gets too big we might attract trannies who want to "fix" this site.

 

[Neodanthril]

How many people actually use the forum categories? I personally pretty much only navigate by thewhat's new page, my watched threads, and the search bar.

 

[Brap God]

I agree that there should be a specific category threads like Trump or Elon but I think that Kanye should still be considered a lolcow. If some random black guy was making songs about giving his cousin and and loving Hitler he would absolutely be a lolcow.

Kanye is about as random of a black guy as the Rothschilds are just some family of jews.

 

[LikeAStone 2.0]

I actually was a fan of the old boards set up so I’m in favor of it.

 

[big dumb]

Open a board for brand-name kiwifarmers.

 

[The Skeksis Emperor]

How many people actually use the forum categories? I personally pretty much only navigate by thewhat's new page, my watched threads, and the search bar.

Lurkers and potential new members see categories, it's probably helpful for them to see that the people they are (initially) interested in are in certain categories.

 

[Jobama]

Kanye is about as random of a black guy as the Rothschilds are just some family of jews.

I meant that if someone who wasn’t famous was doing what Kanye was doing at the peak of his craziness they would absolutely be considered a lolcow. Just because Kanye is famous doesn’t mean he’s not a lolcow. If anything it makes it even funnier.

 

[Großmann]

I agrer with the idea. I haven’t browsed the lolcow board in a long time in part because of how many political lolcows and high-profile people clog the top listings. I just want to browse some old-fashioned lolcow content without having to dig too much.

 

[Avenue]

I like the idea, privately I've been following Sam Altmans weird struggle to keep OpenAI above water.

Board name suggestion "Too Big To Fail"

 

[Alabama Gamer]

Internet Famous was one of the previous boards right?
A lot of these people would fit right into an “Actually Famous” board.
Seems worth it since Magi-Chans influence has grown well beyond digital realms.

As a category, that could encompass all sorts of celebrities. That might not be a bad idea actually. @Null is trying to get more traffic and expand the userbase, after all. Threads about actors and musicians with retarded lives, that sort of thing.

 

[r/oldpeoplefacebook]

Yes absolutely make something like this. Vivek’s thread was extremely useful for learning about some of the shit he was up to and i’m sure it would be useful for other similar figures

 

[CrunkLord420]

Example Post

Palmer Luckey (Anduril Industries, Oculus) allegedly posted on Patrick Klepek's personal Facebook page, celebrating Patrick's loss of employment at VICE. The same platform Patrick Klepek used to attack Palmer Luckey. Patrick Klepek has been attacking Palmer Luckey ever since GamerGate.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/mark-zuckerberg-and-palmer-luckey-end-their-beef-and-partner-to-build-extended-reality-tech-for-the-us-military.1202079/#post-140632851

https://web.archive.org/web/20250820054406/https://www.resetera.com/threads/mark-zuckerberg-and-palmer-luckey-end-their-beef-and-partner-to-build-extended-reality-tech-for-the-us-military.1202079/

 

[FatMebius]

Vivek, Cashap... You could do a whole board just for shitting on Indians.

 

[DOORSTUCK]

I like categorization because I too meticulously arrange and re-arrange my inventory in video games and clean my place in real irl life. My vote is for yes.

 

[Point and Laugh]

I think it could work but maybe having a tech bro specific board would be useful. Most need to be documented but aren’t really lolcows.

 

[hugh mungus feed n sneed]

The real question is how quickly and completely we can make it about politics and gender.

 

[HarveyMCR]

I humbly suggest that users have a minimum account age (6 months?) to interact with this board