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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I don’t think he is wrong. A large audience shifted to a better platform for what a lot of people wanted to do. It makes sense your best posters would follow them.

Large linear threads are actually not that great for fast moving conversations, because it has no way to promote good content. I don’t bother with the Wu thread because it is just pages of noise. It also can’t split into sub conversations like reddit can.
 
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Nobody in the social media era is going to pay $10 to post on a clearly dying forum and especially not one where you have to shell out even more money for basic features and then yet more money to regain those features after getting banned.

New users are right out. SA's only demographics are composed of aging goons who cannot or will not function on another site and funny people with some form of good will toward what the site used to be. Mods have long since driven away the second group.

Social media may have been the single biggest hit to SA's relevance but that alone did not create the laughingstock we see now. Tons of sites have been hit hard by the rise of social media but Lowtax refuses to recognize why SA is uniquely terrible.
 
I'm pretty sure SA used to be widely known for strict moderation and the delusion that it made for a better forum. So yes, the mods did drive people away. That is a thing that literally happened and still does.
 
Most of the good FYAD posters went to Twitter, that part is true.

However, the rancid state of current GBS is absolutely due to the moderation.
 
All the users left for twitter because the good/funny posters made twitter accounts after a mod banned them for either A) being funnier/more popular than mod B) disagreeing with one of the Mod's sycophants C) Alerting the mods that one of them was a registered sex offender D) Posting tranny or nigger or E) all of the above.

And rather than watch a bunch of easily triggered basement dwelling commies compete in the outrage olympics, or wait for it to be their turn to post something the catladies or cattrannies didn't like and get permaed because an Admin was alone for the holidays, people left for a platform where there are funny people and you wouldn't get instantly banned/dogpiled if you said you don't think third world maoism is a good ideology.

And a lot of the screeching outrage olympians are also leaving because there's no one left to REEEEE at. Anyone who disagrees with them is quiet, either because they were banned or they don't want to get banned and see what happens to anyone who isn't a good communist. There's nothing to be outraged or offended by in their safe-space echo chamber, so they have to go to platforms where the rethuglikkklan shitlords haven't been banned so they can get their daily hit of outrage & try to ruin those too.
 
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Lowtax's turn to twitter communism is especially funny considering the cause of his financial problems. Back when SA was especially profitable around 2006-2008, the site was going through a major lolbertarian phase and Lowtax spent his income on a sports car instead of such mere suggestions as "child support" or "taxes."
 
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Lowtax's turn to twitter communism is especially funny considering the cause of his financial problems. Back when SA was especially profitable around 2006-2008, the site was going through a major lolbertarian phase and Lowtax spent his income on a sports car instead of such mere suggestions as "child support" or "taxes."
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Don't forget "reinvesting in the business" so services that I charge for, like search, actually work and purchasing product which I can resell for profit, are actually available and arrive in an undamaged condition.
 
What disguests me is the fundraising for the upgrade he spent months doing a monthly announcement that xeneforo version 2 isnt out yet now he is all.

Whats the point i cant compete with twitter i cant hire professionals to do anything cause that costs money and oh he cant tap random goons cause he dont know them and they might me another radium....

Fine okay we get it you dont wanna do shit
 
I seem to remember not too long ago there was a vocal group of people in QCS complaining about GBS. About how it was racist, misogynist, etc and how that was the reason the userbase was leaving and new accounts weren't being created. Then others brought up the exact same thing Lowtax did about people moving to Twitter, Reddit, etc, and it wasn't the content of GBS.

Then FAU and ZDR took the complainers' side and decided to get rid of GBS for a week or so because it was "bad".
 
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"The mods didn't drive them away! They went to twitter." he says when there's a million different offsite SA spinoffs
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Fuck your right. The last one skullmud was because a few gbs posters and thier fans decided to chill and camp an abandoned fishing forum, so as to not rub the mods the wrong way. The fact that there was enough pull to get a viable offsiye going should tell lowtax that yeah there is a problem.
 
He is more concerned with making excuses about why his business failing isn't his fault than actually addressing the topic of his business failing.

Who gives a shit if you lost 100,000 goons to twitter. You also lost 22,000 of them to your moderators.

If you are going to address the business and perform work and tasks which address the failure and try to correct it then it is extremely important if anything, at all, caused you to lose 20,000 fucking customers. Explaining why something that is your responsibility doesn't matter because something that isn't your responsibility also existed is worthless to the subject.

22,000 is just the amount of killed accounts. How many of the 100,000 that went to twitter did so because of your moderators? Just because it's your mismanagement Lowtax doesn't mean it isn't important.
 
Reddit's format is dreadful, Twitter's arbitrary character limit relegates it to meaningless noiseposting, both of them have problems with inconsistently-applied rules designed to punish anyone from outside The Flock. The chans are a million austists screaming to see who can be the loudest. There's nothing wrong with the flat-thread format, and if you desperately want to have a really fast-moving section for ephemeral conversation then add a chat box.

Lowtax should do away with the $10 and survive on microtransactions like paying to give props or downvote users and posts. Goons would lap that shit up, and if he had like a $20/mo subscription that let you write shit on people's public profiles or something goons would cum in their drawers. I know it's been said a thousand times already so please feel free to :late: me up like a motherfucker but it's mind-boggling how lazy and incompetent Dear Richard really is.
 
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22,000 is just the amount of killed accounts. How many of the 100,000 that went to twitter did so because of your moderators? Just because it's your mismanagement Lowtax doesn't mean it isn't important.
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Count me among that 100,000 (except for the Twitter part). Never got banned or even probed, but just quietly left due to the tyranny of the cat lady mods. Besides the bullshit bans, it got the point where no matter the topic, every thread got derailed by mod friendly cliques who were only looking to find ways to label the other participants as some type of -ist or -phobe. Too often they succeeded in shutting down threads this way and getting posters probed or banned.



I think because there were a few dozen loud posters who would constantly rereg, lazy and incompetent LowT didn't think it was a big deal. Hell, in the short term, he got a lot of 10bux out of it. But for every banned poster who reregged, hundreds just quietly left. I guess in his drug addled haze, he didn't see much value in members who only paid the 10bux once and bought the occasional avatar pic. True, it was inevitable that SA was going to lose a lot of traffic due to the rise of social media platforms. But he could have easily held on to a lot more of the user base than he did if had taken his livelihood a little bit more seriously.
 
People who left Something Awful because it was becoming too much of a hugbox to go to Twitter are going to be disappointed, because Twitter is squeezing about as tight as an iron lung.

I think this is the inevitable fate of most social networks that aren't completely broad-based like Facebook. The people most dependent on the functions of the site will fight the hardest to ensure that only they benefit from it.
 
Incredible Crisis said:
People who left Something Awful because it was becoming too much of a hugbox to go to Twitter are going to be disappointed, because Twitter is squeezing about as tight as an iron lung.

I think this is the inevitable fate of most social networks that aren't completely broad-based like Facebook. The people most dependent on the functions of the site will fight the hardest to ensure that only they benefit from it.
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My guess is that they’re going to get rid of Trump’s twitter account around Christmas, for massive virtuesignaling. And that will be the end of twitter as a platform, because Trump has the federal government at his disposal and he’s not exactly a “forgive and forget” guy.
 
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