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IT'S TIME FOR A MAJOR BOMBSHELL!

According to a user who privately messaged Lowtax, he confirmed that the Kiwifarms ad is here to stay!

Thanks for the update, Manky!

Worth noting is voice of reason Bedlamdan actually giving good advice (read: stop taking easy bait that exists to bait you), but gets turned against immediately for having a semblance of logical thought.

Full responses:

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[Ebonic Tutor]

IT'S TIME FOR A MAJOR BOMBSHELL!

According to a user who privately messaged Lowtax, he confirmed that the Kiwifarms ad is here to stay!

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Thanks for the update, Manky!

Worth noting is voice of reason Bedlamdan actually giving good advice (read: stop taking easy bait that exists to bait you), but gets turned against immediately for having a semblance of logical thought.

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Full responses:

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I can only handle so much more sodium before I have a heart attack.

 

[Emperor Julian]

So, is their any mechanism to protect against us creating custom avatars? Because my payday is tommorow and I've got a few idea's for some of the posters.

 

[repentance]

Safe harbor rules does generally protect owners of websites from being responsible for user uploaded content. But I think you're required to remove obviously illegal content (like childporn) within a reasonable timeframe. So Lowtax could get fucked from an attack like that if he don't respond quickly enough.

The admins could just take the site offline until Lowtax deigns to deal with it.

 

[Ebonic Tutor]

So, is their any mechanism to protect against us creating custom avatars? Because my payday is tommorow and I've got a few idea's for some of the posters.

If you do anything too bad a mod might change it but that's it.

 

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So, is their any mechanism to protect against us creating custom avatars? Because my payday is tommorow and I've got a few idea's for some of the posters.

No.

Actually there's a mechanism against protecting against us creating custom avatars. Mods and admins can't see who does it, as reportedly by both mods and admins, since it's considered a forum action instead of a moderator action. It's completely anonymous.

I think just a banner ad saying "sudden-onset gender dysphoria has no basis in medical science" and linking the relevant research (https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0202330) would cause an apocalypse.

We should just call this whole ordeal the "Something Awful Ad-pocalypse."

 

[Emperor Julian]

Interesting, maybe a couple of gamergate, migtow and caitlyn jenner avatars would be appreciated?

 

[LazloChalos]

Interesting, maybe a couple of gamergate, migtow and caitlyn jenner avatars would be appreciated?

Need context, will shitshoop

 

[Anime is Blood]

IT'S TIME FOR A MAJOR BOMBSHELL!

According to a user who privately messaged Lowtax, he confirmed that the Kiwifarms ad is here to stay!

View attachment 550901

Thanks for the update, Manky!

Worth noting is voice of reason Bedlamdan actually giving good advice (read: stop taking easy bait that exists to bait you), but gets turned against immediately for having a semblance of logical thought.

View attachment 550907

Full responses:

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(link to post with timeline of events)

Lowtax is taking a stand and allowing the Kiwifarms advertisements?

Maybe he won't get savagely cucked this time since Zen Death Robot has been MIA lately and isn't publicly threatening to quit and making demands.

 

[CharlesBarkley]

Some sperg who spends 10$ every season to find a matching avatar prob wont care about someone making them float another ten spot.

 

[Ebonic Tutor]

Some sperg who spends 10$ every season to find a matching avatar prob wont care about someone making them float another ten spot.

Target people with stupid newbie av's or people that have had the theirs a long time (IE too broke to change it)

Also, mods can change them if they are too bad.

 

[repentance]

Some sperg who spends 10$ every season to find a matching avatar prob wont care about someone making them float another ten spot.

It's only $5 to change your own, $10 to change someone else's.

 

[OWLS!]

"Trolling" SA by paying lowtax?

 

[Ebonic Tutor]

"Trolling" SA by paying lowtax?

Dumb as it is it's the easiest route to fuck with the goons that they'd have a hard time fighting back against.

 

[The Fatriarchy]

it's so fatalistic to ignore people trying to annoy you.

 

[Sissy Galvez]

I’m a bit surprised lowtax would allow the KF ad to remain but maybe he’s just tired of the shit or it’s a way to stick it to the assholes who caused drama over him posting here.

 

[Vivec]

it's so fatalistic to ignore people trying to annoy you.

To certain individuals, every hill is worth dying on. It's principled, if not at all productive.

 

[Ghostse]

I’m a bit surprised lowtax would allow the KF ad to remain but maybe he’s just tired of the shit or it’s a way to stick it to the assholes who caused drama over him posting here.

The other ads were "offensive" (used no-no words). The Kiwifarms ad does not.

 

[Cryogonal]

"Trolling" SA by paying lowtax?

Basically, it isnt lowtax who is the target here, but rather every person who is getting increasingly testy with him. If Rich felt like being funny, he could reply to anyone begging him to change their avs by banning them

 

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I’m a bit surprised lowtax would allow the KF ad to remain but maybe he’s just tired of the shit or it’s a way to stick it to the assholes who caused drama over him posting here.

The go-to reasoning is that it will inspire users to buy the no-ads update which, for Lowtax, means:

Paradoxically, no goon likes the ad, but they'll spend money for it.