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Even if the bandwidth is cheaper there’s way less regs reregs avs plat search etc being sold. You only get that tenbux once. Upselling doesn’t work if you treat your users like shit, especially new ones.
 
gobbogobb said:
Even if the bandwidth is cheaper there’s way less regs reregs avs plat search etc being sold. You only get that tenbux once. Upselling doesn’t work if you treat your users like shit, especially new ones.
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Has anyone tried to figure out how much money is wasted on forum emotes? That and avatar changes are the only non-rereg source of repeat income.
 
Lowtax once again blaming the users for SA failing.
 

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People still told their friends via posting links onto forums and chat rooms, i.e. "the original social media". By intentionally kneecapping modern social media sharing options on the website Lowtax is only expediting its death. Yeah, Twitter and Facebook are fucking garbage, but literally millions of people use them. That's a lot of potential eyeballs.
 
I show friends shit from here all the time, and I know at least one is a member now.

SA? I'd be ashamed. Imagine trying to explain the troons to someone. Trying to sell the moderation as a good thing. Telling people it's a comedy forum, but then having to explain that the woke crew doesn't allow humor. Among all the other things shitting the place up.

And then topping it off by asking them to hand over tenbux for that experience.
 
True but
Super Collie said:
People still told their friends via posting links onto forums and chat rooms, i.e. "the original social media". By intentionally kneecapping modern social media sharing options on the website Lowtax is only expediting its death. Yeah, Twitter and Facebook are fucking garbage, but literally millions of people use them. That's a lot of potential eyeballs.
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hey remember digg links at the bottom of the forums?
 
Aquinas said:
I'll be honest with you, He isnt half wrong in that case
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TheGreatCitracett said:
I show friends shit from here all the time, and I know at least one is a member now.

SA? I'd be ashamed. Imagine trying to explain the troons to someone. Trying to sell the moderation as a good thing. Telling people it's a comedy forum, but then having to explain that the woke crew doesn't allow humor. Among all the other things shitting the place up.

And then topping it off by asking them to hand over tenbux for that experience.
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He's not wrong, but TGC has it pretty well nailed.

:c"So its this comedy forum where people who just post low effort shit get banned. People also post interesting threads about cool stuff they've done or fun stories."
:ghost:"Oh that sounds cool. Well I can't see anything you link me, its just some youtube."
:c "That's the paywall, it goes up sometimes, so people can't read the forums unless they registed. Here are some threads you can see."
:ghost:"Wait why did they ban that guy? That was a funny joke."
:c "They ban for racist/sexist humor. And apparently just for saying retard now."
:ghost: "Oh ok I mean I guess I can see...wait, why's that one person posting sassy black woman gifs? I thought low effort meme/reaction image posting was banned?"
:c "Oh she's a mod and black so its fine. But look, we rip on internet losers its great."
:ghost:"Wait, that person is huge loser, why aren't you ripping on them?"
:c "They're trans. We don't make fun of trans people here we're inclusive."
:ghost:"But that one guy got banned for that well reasoned, level-toned post"
:c "We can't allow hatespeech here."
:ghost:"There's a whole 2000+ page thread about killing all the white people."
:c"Right, hate speech isn't allowed. Plus its not a serious, this is a comedy forum."
:ghost:"um.. ok. Then why did that guy get banned for making fun of people in the communism thread?"
:c"We can't allow people to just shit up the discussions."
:ghost:"But lots of people were shitting up the Republicans thread."
:c"Of course they were! Its a comedy forum!"
:ghost:"Well wait why did that thread get shut down? People seemed to enjoy it and made funny posts and images. And that other thread, they had person really well educated in that field making posts and answering questions."
:c"That first thread a mod didn't find funny, so obviously all the posters enjoying it were wrong. And that other thread, the mod wasn't interested in the topic, so it was a bad thread."
:ghost:"O-okay...on this comedy forum, lots of jokes are forbidden, you get banned for shitting up some discussion threads but not others, and menially employed liberal arts dropouts who live with their parents tell everyone else what is and isn't an interesting thread."
:c"And an account is only $10!"

:c THE ARISTOCRATS!
 
jace821 said:
Lowtax once again blaming the users for SA failing.
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The thing that drew me to SA in the first place was the articles. You know, the ones that Lowtax has been too fucking lazy to work on for years (still waiting on the Notch article, buddy).

But he CAN blame the users for turning the forums (by his own admission in this very thread) into a joyless far-left circle jerk. And he can blame himself for letting it happen.
 
Anyone I've ever met that was a reddit/4chan type either knew about SA and refused to have anything to do with it due to it's $10 fee or immediately mocked the idea once they found out it had a $10 fee.

Getting Lowtax to drop the fee and work on advertising/content/merchandise/forums flair and whatever else that would actually be profitable would be impossible because he is as stupid as he is lazy. People begged him to sell merch for years and he finally went with the most expensive and laziest option resulting in uploading a logo and selling $35 amazon t-shirts he made like $2 on.
 
Lowtax runs a "comedy" site but he isn't funny and never has been, so it's been doomed to fail since day 1. He tripped into success simply for being in the right place at the right time in internet history. None of his success was due to his business savvy, it was in spite of it.

If he had made a small section for free users to post on, like 8 years ago, maybe the forums wouldn't be such a graveyard now. Pretty much anything would've worked to his benefit at this point in the game, instead of what he actually did: absolutely nothing.
 
David Wong was actually significantly funnier than Lowtax in the same time period, but his forums weren't. dryb0nes is right. It was all luck and leeching off the content of funnier people on his boards.
 
The other driving force for SA users was people joining for guilds and of course the torrents I think lowt made the correct call to get the pirates off the site.

If I recall someone posted a sex tape video called unclefucker and had a melt down over it.

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I still wonder if he is sending a passive agressive signal to the mod woke crew

if I recall last year he like the pee pee doo doo man poster shop and was like "we need to go back to this"

And then ZDR threatened to leave. and ashly got ran off or something like that
 
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@Lowtax SA isn't an "anti-social media site", it's a site where the worst aspects of leftist social media are concentrated into a slurry of pure filth then pumped down the user base's throats whether they like it or not.

And why the fuck would anyone tell their friends to join up, SA is a toxic as fuck leftist echo chamber. It would be humiliating having your friends angry at you because they got probated or banned one day in for disagreeing with the shrieking pit of Communist lunatics that populate and run your shithole site (providing that anyone could be convinced to spend money on a fucking web forum account in the first place).

If you want to fix your site the first step is getting someone who isn't a far-left nutcase to replace ZDR (and undo all the backdoors that I'm certain he's installed in the event that you do exactly this). Then remove the rest of the mod team.
 
northstar747 said:
The other driving force for SA users was people joining for guilds and of course the torrents I think lowt made the correct call to get the pirates off the site.

If I recall someone posted a sex tape video called unclefucker and had a melt down over it.

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I still wonder if he is sending a passive agressive signal to the mod woke crew

if I recall last year he like the pee pee doo doo man poster shop and was like "we need to go back to this"

And then ZDR threatened to leave. and ashly got ran off or something like that
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ZDR cucks Lowtax so much it's hard to keep track of.

There was the time Lowtax shared a photoshop from here and said that SA needed to be funny again, which caused a meltdown from the woke posters for associating with this site and ZDR threatened to quit, Lowtax disappeared.

Later Lowtax posted that Tranny, Retard and Faggot were allowed to be posted, that's when Ashley went to D&D and said that not everyone is a racist, which caused Koala March to immediately call her a racist before ZDR changed the name of the thread to mock Ashley while closing it. ZDR that time was posting about how he "Had one foot out the door already."

Even later Lowtax made the Shmorky thread and permabanned the people who were trying to shit it up and close it, ZDR reversed the permabans and threatened to quit in an even bigger tantrum so the thread was gassed.

Even later Lowtax made a Mandy thread with her facebook posts, ZDR threatened to quit again and when Lowtax kept the thread up ZDR deleted all of his posts in protest and has been mostly silent since.

Who knows how many times Lowtax has been cucked behind the scenes if it's being done so many times publicly.
 
All the talk about being "anti-social media" most likely has nothing to do with content. I almost guarantee that he's just putting down the ground work against modern forums things like post ratings and easy linking as a way to argue that SA has nothing to gain from upgrading software.
 
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