Something Awful and Friends - The roller-coaster train-wreck embarrassing downfall of a Web 1.0 giant and its tick offspring like from Cloverfield

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Lazy ass Lowestax starts a thread about SA merchandise, gets 14 pages of decent suggestions and ends it with this:

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GAHHHH its tooo much work!!!!! Please somebody do the work for me for free!!
 
northstar747 said:
Who and how is he trolling?

Also if an admin wishes to troll they should under another account and deffently shouldnt be probating for saying shit he doesnt want said.
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Whenever someone disagrees with him politically he becomes extremely catty and tries posting sarcastic/ironic/lolrandum shit in an attempt to troll the offending poster and establish himself as the "funny" admin at irrelevant comedy site Something Awful dot com. I'm pretty sure he chose his username based on "'Facts are useless' is something a CONSERVASHIT would say, am I right or am I right?"

Some people can take their political anguish and turn it into quality comedy. FAU is either too assblasted or too untalented to be funny or clever, but boy howdy can he flail in the general direction of comedy.
 
MrLobe said:
https://twitter.com/lowtax/status/883503298455756803

Guess which drunken washout is trying to start a slapfight with Notch again!

Where's the article, @Lowtax? It was supposed to be completed last year.
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If he really wants to be straight with the article, he can just say it's not going to happen outside of just making tweets that try to start some slapfight with Notch while farming for likes from followers.
 
Why does he keep saltily pissing at notch? What even started this one-sided 'feud'?
 
Dynastia said:
Why does he keep saltily pissing at notch? What even started this one-sided 'feud'?
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I figured it was another desperate grab for relevance. Getting Notch-Sempai to notice him and telling to fuck off means all of Notch's followers will see -his- tweet. Considering how much Notch likes to call out spastics on twitter, I wouldn't be too surprised.
 
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I think he is honestly angry that out of the many many many many hell someone can list all the successful people that have passed through the somethingawful....what ever the fuck we can all it...alum....maybe....anyway you have a mother fucking billionaire. Rich is hurting for money, has no real skills and I bet he honestly just lashed out at notch for being rich.
 
Aquinas said:
I miss lowtax
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Me too.

jace821 said:
There's a thread on SA about how it's a dead gay forum and a lot of people unironically think it's because it was taken over by insensitive right wingers.
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I'm not all the way through the thread yet but it looks like 2 spastics believe that. This "Poland Spring" poster that keeps harping on that seems like a retard. Most of the other posts are about how dead and gay the forum is.

BlueSpark said:
Lowtax has a hissy fit on twitter about Notch, projects so hard he could display films on the moon:
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Also, an old tweets from Lowtax (not sure if this has been posted yet):
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This coming from a guy that employed and made videos with Shmorky.
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Sounds like something that'd be good to post in Lowtax's solo thread too.

Bungleboy said:
So exactly how did a *comedy* forum get overrun by fun-hating sadbrains?
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This shit has been asked so much I'm thinking we might need to add a FAQ to the OP of this thread.
 
Lou Wrong said:
I blame Obama-mania myself. It killed what was left of any competing ideologies (libertarians, conservative Democrats, etc.) and then LF broke off from them when Obama took private campaign contributions.

edit: To expand on this, now that I have access to a keyboard...

SA has always leaned left somewhat on culture war issues. Even in the early days you weren't going to exactly find many people arguing for church in schools, a ban on swearing or any of the American right's authoritarian ideas. But you would see some posters arguing for right wing economic ideas or for general non-intervention from the government even in areas where doing so would benefit the left or for military action abroad (that last one ended across the site as Iraq went on.)

In time most issues got a forums consensus, and anyone who disagreed would give up and not reply to the thread to avoid being dog-piled. This consensus was, with a select few exceptions, pretty much always somewhere between those of the Democratic party and the European left. 2007/8 was, in addition to the start of Obama-mania, also the peak of the Ron Paul era on the forums- buoyed by his opposition to Iraq and US foreign policy generally and his purported strict adherence to the constitution. The Paul and Austrian Economics threads were huge and fast moving. So at that point most positions in the American center were gone- you were almost certain to be a hard core libertarian or a European style Social Democrat. So about those Paul threads... they were hated by the lefties on the site's staff. And since the staff was disproportionately left leaning that meant they got to do things they shouldn't have been.

Eventually the D&D mods, who included gay, Dutch, Communist, luster-for-children McCaine and admins (such as the aforementioned Zack, Fistgrrl and Ozma) let it be known that it was open season on the libertarians. You could go into their thread and shit on it and nobody would do anything to you, assuming that thread wasn't already moved to FYAD or LF. Or you can change their avatars for money, but if they do it back to you an admin will change it to an Obama one for free.

So there you have it, you couldn't be a traditional moralistic Christian poster who believed in right-wing economics. Because you know, that type of person was a very early target of SA both on the forums and the front page. But then you couldn't be a libertarian (aka left-wing social values and right wing economics) either. So you basically weren't allowed to be any type of right-winger economically. Interestingly, you could be on the upper left side of that stupid chart- at least until McCaine got banned and then you could again when LF really went off the rails, but few people ever were and when they were it was without the religious aspect. Of course, thats just an ideology that doesn't seem to apply to many people in the developed west and as such didn't have much push outside of the "learn about the CCP" thread.

At that point LF and D&D (which was sort of falling apart-few threads were being posted in) was an echo chamber of low effort posting, anchored by a few try-hards who would basically be lolcows if the shit they were writing wasn't so infuriating. Obama was in office by this time and bound by the restraints of governance- LF quickly left him behind in their race leftward. A few of the posters, co-ordinating both on-site and off, decided to indoctrinate GBS. And GBS, being full of exceptional individuals who can't debate, was totally unprepared to argue against a dog-pile of low effort leftists who would never be banned. So at that point yeah, GBS became a left-wing hivemind too. And since, contrary to what other subforums like to claim, GBS is the second biggest part of the site it naturally just spread from there. It went everywhere but Games, which moved so fast that political talk would be drowned out by talk about games. Games in Games, what a novel concept.

And of course if you went into the "no rules" subforum and posted things they disagreed with, you could end up being fucked with by the admins, banned for pretty much anything or have a Helldump thread opened on you (and then, again, banned from there.) Or they might just do all of those things even if you didn't go into their special place. And why are you complaining, you garbage person? You racist bastard. Look at this post where you said that some people abuse welfare. Etc.

And where was Lowtax during all of this? No-where. At all. He was marrying his first and second wives, buying and reselling his two McMansions, writing front page articles, trusting that radium was radically overhauling the code, experiencing the homeopathic properties of mangosteen and basically just being everywhere that wasn't the place that made him money.

Now contrary to what most people will say, that visit from the FBI wasn't the first he became aware of LF's issues. He had noticed that it, YCS and the other FYAD-lites were being obnoxious to the regular users. But he was a coward and his admins kept insisting that things were fine, so he'd do things like order the quiet deletion of invasion threads (after the off-site community that continued to plan them was already up and running) or closing Helldump, or instituting forums cancer in lieu of actually banning problem users. The only problem is, unless you're on the site all the time you wouldn't actually notice all that stuff building up. You wouldn't get the idea that SA had its own little version Halal/Haram. When it finally came time to delete LF, it took the userbase as a surprise- all the unofficial warnings to shape up were useless and Lowtax would have been better off just deleting it years beforehand. And of course by the time he did do it the other groups had left the site and they pretty much never returned.


I eagerly await the autism and powerlevel ratings.
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this is a good summary. I joined there and got archives and such. I rarely posted and for several years didn't even go there, then when I went back it was like an entirely different place and I stopped going back at all after reading for a few days.

I still have an account there and archive access but I'd have to reset my password, it's been so long.
 
Lou Wrong said:
In time most issues got a forums consensus, and anyone who disagreed would give up and not reply to the thread to avoid being dog-piled. This consensus was, with a select few exceptions, pretty much always somewhere between those of the Democratic party and the European left. 2007/8 was, in addition to the start of Obama-mania, also the peak of the Ron Paul era on the forums- buoyed by his opposition to Iraq and US foreign policy generally and his purported strict adherence to the constitution. they were hated by the lefties on the site's staff. And since the staff was disproportionately left leaning that meant they got to do things they shouldn't have been.

Eventually the mods, let it be known that it was open season .You could go into their thread and shit on it and nobody would do anything to you,

So there you have it, you couldn't be a traditional moralistic Christian poster who believed in right-wing economics. Because you know, that type of person was a very early target of on the forums . But then you couldn't be a libertarian (aka left-wing social values and right wing economics) either. So you basically weren't allowed to be any type of right-winger economically. Interestingly, you could be on the upper left side of that stupid chart- but few people ever were and when they were it was without the religious aspect. Of course, thats just an ideology that doesn't seem to apply to many people in the developed west and as such didn't have much push outside of the "learn about the CCP" thread.

At that point "the main forums"was an echo chamber of low effort posting, anchored by a few try-hards who would basically be lolcows if the shit they were writing wasn't so infuriating. Obama was in office by this time and bound by the restraints of governance- LF quickly left him behind in their race leftward. A few of the posters, co-ordinating both on-site and off, decided to indoctrinate GBS. And GBS, being full of exceptional individuals who can't debate, was totally unprepared to argue against a dog-pile of low effort leftists who would never be banned. So at that point yeah, GBS became a left-wing hivemind too. And since, contrary to what other subforums like to claim, GBS is the second biggest part of the site it naturally just spread from there. It went everywhere but Games, which moved so fast that political talk would be drowned out by talk about games. Games in Games, what a novel concept.

And of course if you went into the "no rules" subforum and posted things they disagreed with, you could end up being fucked with by the admins, banned for pretty much anything or have a Helldump thread opened on you (and then, again, banned from there.) Or they might just do all of those things even if you didn't go into their special place. And why are you complaining, you garbage person? You racist bastard. Look at this post where you said that some people abuse welfare. Etc.

And where was "Owner/Admin" during all of this? No-where. At all.

And of course by the time he did do it the other groups had left the site and they pretty much never returned.
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I snipped and edited your post because it rang way too many familiar bells. That was basically the story of most, if not all, popular interests forums across the web. Its... eerie how familiar that story is.
Giantitp, rpg.net, battle.net, and dozens of others. Just creepy how often that story was replicated. Not always exactly, but still.
 
Yeah tell me about it. Only difference is that most stories end with the owner, who got bored and went semi-inactive years ago, deciding to stop paying the bills and the forum just randomly going blank one day. On the other hand, unlike Lowtax, those owners almost never even attempted to make a profit off their site and the fact that they paid for the hosting ever (let alone years after they stopped caring) makes those plug-pullers okay in my book.



And hey who knows, that might be where SA eventually heads too. For a long while I had sort of assumed Lowtax would eventually sell it and retire with his millions, but he's managed to piss that all away so he's in for the long haul at this point.
 
Holocaust Mansplainer said:
Rofl lowtax is so hilariously salty over minecraft getting its start on SA and him missing out on the gibs as usual
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The best part is, of course, that more than a few offered to cut Lowtax in but effort.

Transvaalan said:
I snipped and edited your post because it rang way too many familiar bells. That was basically the story of most, if not all, popular interests forums across the web. Its... eerie how familiar that story is.
Giantitp, rpg.net, battle.net, and dozens of others. Just creepy how often that story was replicated. Not always exactly, but still.
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I don't see how it applies to battle.net or giantitp (not that I really frequented either).
 
Transvaalan said:
I snipped and edited your post because it rang way too many familiar bells. That was basically the story of most, if not all, popular interests forums across the web. Its... eerie how familiar that story is.
Giantitp, rpg.net, battle.net, and dozens of others. Just creepy how often that story was replicated. Not always exactly, but still.
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strangely enough ogrish went the opposite. I didn't check the forum for a while and when I went back literal Nazis had seized it. then I didn't go back for a long time and when I went again it was almost back to the usual. it was really strange, like a short coup.
 
resonancer said:
strangely enough ogrish went the opposite. I didn't check the forum for a while and when I went back literal Nazis had seized it. then I didn't go back for a long time and when I went again it was almost back to the usual. it was really strange, like a short coup.
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Was ogrish ever that big though?
 
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