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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Splendid said:
This dumbass probably just watched some lockpicking lawyer stuff and figures he's now an expert safecracker without spending years developing the fine touch you need to work on high quality locks and safes.
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LockpickingLawyer is the channel he specifically named, so there's a good chance the safe is one of those cheap pieces of Amazon's Choice shit that flies open when you shove a thin strip of metal into the door gap.

And then Dog Toothbrush will mumble "In any case, that's all I have for you today, if you have any questions or comments please put them below, if you liked this video and would like to see more like it please subscribe..." right up until the gunshot.
 
I read through that mod thread and here are my takeaways.

1. No Lowtax
2. The number of banned users in a staff board is hilarious and preposterous.
3. No person can articulate what they want and don't want in this board.
4. At one point, two mods announce they give up.

Very little of KF is done by committee. If something changes it's usually because I felt like it. I try to be open to what staff thinks because I intrinsically value their opinions, but I usually only reach out for opinions if I don't know what I want (and I usually do know).

The reason no one in this thread knows how to describe the board they want is because the board they want is an inherent contradiction. They want it to be /r/roastme, tame and safe ribbing, but they know that board requires proactive consent and SA isn't really able to do that. They dance around it, trying to reconcile when they like and don't like different occurrences of the same FYAD behavior, not able to clearly define what they want in plain language because to do so would force them to admit they just want special treatment for certain posters.


Here's how you fix it to make most people happy, real simple.
1. Make a new board literally called Safe Space and quarantine all gay shit there.
2. Forbid FYAD capping that board.
3. Forbid FYAD bullying any gay or non-white unless they're a "bigot".

That's what they want. Do exactly that.
 
Null said:
I read through that mod thread and here are my takeaways.

1. No Lowtax
2. The number of banned users in a staff board is hilarious and preposterous.
3. No person can articulate what they want and don't want in this board.
4. At one point, two mods announce they give up.

Very little of KF is done by committee. If something changes it's usually because I felt like it. I try to be open to what staff thinks because I intrinsically value their opinions, but I usually only reach out for opinions if I don't know what I want (and I usually do know).

The reason no one in this thread knows how to describe the board they want is because the board they want is an inherent contradiction. They want it to be /r/roastme, tame and safe ribbing, but they know that board requires proactive consent and SA isn't really able to do that. They dance around it, trying to reconcile when they like and don't like different occurrences of the same FYAD behavior, not able to clearly define what they want in plain language because to do so would force them to admit they just want special treatment for certain posters.


Here's how you fix it to make most people happy, real simple.
1. Make a new board literally called Safe Space and quarantine all gay shit there.
2. Forbid FYAD capping that board.
3. Forbid FYAD bullying any gay or non-white unless they're a "bigot".

That's what they want. Do exactly that.
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Years ago I followed EVE Online politics and drama, and I remember a blog post talking about why some in-game alliances succeeded and some collapsed the moment somebody so much as poked them. The blog post was written by a goon.

He brought up various points mostly related to the fact that EVE Online was, at the end of the day, a goddamn video game (well, spreadsheet simulator pretending to be a video game, but I digress) and players needed to have fun or else they would never log on. He had choice words for alliances that routinely pinged every member with orders like "If you don't set your alarm clock for 2:55 AM on a Tuesday so you can be ready for our mandatory shoot-at-the-stationary-object operation then you might as well pack your shit up right now because you're not welcome here anymore."

One point I found very interesting, though, was that alliances that were run by councils, committees, boards of directors and other such autism had far worse effectiveness and longevity than alliances run by a single all-powerful dictator. Leadership-by-consensus models were extremely common in EVE for reasons I won't get into, and they universally sucked because every single person involved was, at the end of the day, a pissant playing pretend and wanted everything to be done my way or else. The result was that no decisions were ever made, and when they did get made, they were compromises that absolutely nobody was happy about. It also meant that these alliances suffered from rampant intel leaks, infighting, and drama; at one point the most powerful alliance in the game vanished overnight because one of the leaders sabotaged the others so spectacularly that an official comic book was published about the incident. The comic book sucked; don't bother looking for it.

Basically, organizations in EVE that were run by committees would be trapped in their own skin, hemming and hawing and jerking each other off for weeks, while an alliance dictator could (and would) literally just post "I'm declaring war on our neighbors because they're faggots and if you like them, you're a faggot too" and within minutes the killsquads would be forming. There were weaknesses in the leadership model, but it was effective in EVE because in the end, every EVE player was an anonymous jerk who wanted to have fun online.

Something Awful used to be a bunch of anonymous assholes run by a dictator, but SA has a tradition of fuckups so big as to defy the laws of reality, and accordingly, SA somehow managed to fucking decapitate itself like that one suicidal dude who rigged a chainsaw to a bunch of pulleys in his garage. Now, SA's leadership is by committee, and it can never be anything but by committee, because there need to be female voices and trans voices and black voices and pedophile voices and who the fuck knows what else. The result is that SA's leadership is a Rat King held together by each other's feces, endlessly writhing and squealing and snapping at anyone who points and laughs at their wretchedness. Meanwhile, every goon who was on the forums to have some fun online has jumped ship, and all that's left is a shrinking population of "digital natives" whose favorite pastime is eating each other alive.
 
agility_ said:
That's fantastic. Now, where did all of these pseudo-communist trannie assclowns come from, and why were they given free reign over the whole damn forum?
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They're the white noise posters who've always been in the background, that slowly got louder over time until they managed to run off anyone with the slightest bit of common sense.
 
Jeffrey of YOSPOS said:
Accusations of being a kiwifarms poster are also nearly unfalsifiable, a scarlet letter forever on one's name forever, whether it's true or not. It would not shock me at all if, say, Raspy had a kiwifarms account and he's permabanned already. It is certainly possible for a kiwifarms guy to show up in fyad, I can't stop that before it happens and if I'm convinced it is happening, I will act on it. I take people posting on kiwifarms very seriously, but I need more to go on than this. In the past week alone, I panel permabanned someone who outed themselves there, despite having 0 posts, I deleted their paid ads, and I hand edited all of the posts quoting a particular user's old username to help prevent them from being doxxed. It is a site-wide concern, as the linkedin guy from the DIY shows, but someone doing it offsite is also really hard to prove and a really unfair accusation to throw around without clear evidence. I will continue to destroy anyone I think is posting on kiwifarms or something sensitive or any other offsite hellhole, but I also have to be mindful that it isn't something that someone can disprove once accused.
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Nice to see this autistic faggot is openly talking about his gay rule in their mod chat but doesn't like you know actually inform the userbase so we can know that being registered here is for realsies a bannable offense without being extremely online and knowing every current drama thing. I legitimately didn't know, but now that I know, he can go fuck himself. You can't tell me where I can post on the internet you absolute fucking faggot jesus christ, suck my dick.
 
agility_ said:
That's fantastic. Now, where did all of these pseudo-communist trannie assclowns come from, and why were they given free reign over the whole damn forum?
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Tumblr, during the Dangan Rampa LP. Least that's when the troons started showing up real heavy and displaced the cat-ladies over time.
 
agility_ said:
That's fantastic. Now, where did all of these pseudo-communist trannie assclowns come from, and why were they given free reign over the whole damn forum?
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You have to be autsistic in a real bad way to be invested in and build your self-worth on a 2 decade old dead comedy forum, and in clownworld the Venn Diagram of "autistic," "twitter revolutionary" and "tranny" is rapidly becoming a perfect circle.
 
trent said:
The Nu-Goon.

A completely humourless, always online breed that always has only one characteristic that defines their entire being (tranny, mental health issues, communist, Antifa etc etc).
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Listen, and understand! That Trooninator is out there! It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear! And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead!
 
Take/drive away the people that actually produce content and all that remains are those that used and consumed it.

SA is now a board for users and consumers which is why all their socialism chat circles around nothing but what shit they'd get for free and glosses over the fact most of them would be put to work. No you cannot choose your job because research on that suggests most of you would want to sit and draw cartoon sloths all day.

Viewed through that lens the state of SA makes perfect sense, a collection of emotional, financial and oppression leeches.
 
Pissmaster said:
They're the white noise posters who've always been in the background, that slowly got louder over time until they managed to run off anyone with the slightest bit of common sense.
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Case in point - even fucking TIGGUM is trooning out now (and some guy I’ve never heard of).
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