Her Majesty
posted by max on April 23, 2012 at 05:36:57 PM
Hi buds,
Just a quick note to let you know I'll be attending ROFLcon again this year. If I can arrange it, I hope to give out some swag there, but I'm not promising anything.
That's all.
Just a quick note to let you know I'll be attending ROFLcon again this year. If I can arrange it, I hope to give out some swag there, but I'm not promising anything.
That's all.
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No. YTMND's hosting bills are quite small at this point and we're in the black. The major costs are replacing the old ailing hardware purchased in 2006. With the recent replacement of the master DB server and master content servers, there isn't much that's likely to fail. At this point, YTMND is just stocking up its war chest.
[b]Beginning Of The End For The Demon[/b]
Yay! I think this might be the beginning of the end for The Demon in this house.
He is currently, as I am writing, pissing everyone off to the Nth degree. He is now ranting and raving about how spoiled is Blake. While I agree with him, I am not coming to his defense. For one thing, I’ve been down that road and it’s a dead end. Another is because I hate The Demon more than I dislike how Blake has been spoiled rotten. I’m of the opinion when someone has dug themselves a hole and they want to keep digging, there is really nothing you can do for them.
So right now, I am going to sit back and wait to see what happens. There’s nothing I can do.
Well, see ya’ later!
Mood: Excited
Music: “Get Inside” by Stone Sour
Book: “Shadow Over Innsmouth” by H. P. Lovecraft
Yay! I think this might be the beginning of the end for The Demon in this house.
He is currently, as I am writing, pissing everyone off to the Nth degree. He is now ranting and raving about how spoiled is Blake. While I agree with him, I am not coming to his defense. For one thing, I’ve been down that road and it’s a dead end. Another is because I hate The Demon more than I dislike how Blake has been spoiled rotten. I’m of the opinion when someone has dug themselves a hole and they want to keep digging, there is really nothing you can do for them.
So right now, I am going to sit back and wait to see what happens. There’s nothing I can do.
Well, see ya’ later!
Mood: Excited
Music: “Get Inside” by Stone Sour
Book: “Shadow Over Innsmouth” by H. P. Lovecraft
extreme racism hardcore pornography anything illegal (animal torture, anything that could be remotely described as child porn, etc) pictures of your friends or enemies someone's personal information (such as addresses, phone numbers, full names) inside jokes that the majority of the members of YTMND won't understand. any of the following words in the title or text of the site: OMG, LOL, ROFL, WTF, PWNED, O RLY, OWNED, OMFG, etc. blatant copyright infringement complete lack of creativity, such as straight rips from family guy, the simpsons or any other tv show anime (please, just go to 4chan and get it over with) finding random images on the internet and putting them to dumb random songs extreme racism hardcore pornography anything illegal (animal torture, anything that could be remotely described as child porn, etc) pictures of your friends or enemies someone's personal information (such as addresses, phone numbers, full names) inside jokes that the majority of the members of YTMND won't understand. any of the following words in the title or text of the site: OMG, LOL, ROFL, WTF, PWNED, O RLY, OWNED, OMFG, etc. blatant copyright infringement complete lack of creativity, such as straight rips from family guy, the simpsons or any other tv show anime (please, just go to 4chan and get it over with) finding random images on the internet and putting them to dumb random songs extreme racism hardcore pornography anything illegal (animal torture, anything that could be remotely described as child porn, etc) pictures of your friends or enemies someone's personal information (such as addresses, phone numbers, full names) inside jokes that the majority of the members of YTMND won't understand. any of the following words in the title or text of the site: OMG, LOL, ROFL, WTF, PWNED, O RLY, OWNED, OMFG, etc. blatant copyright infringement complete lack of creativity, such as straight rips from family guy, the simpsons or any other tv show anime (please, just go to 4chan and get it over with) finding random images on the internet and putting them to dumb random songs extreme racism hardcore pornography anything illegal (animal torture, anything that could be remotely described as child porn, etc) pictures of your friends or enemies someone's personal information (such as addresses, phone numbers, full na
Give YTMND Random Layouts, like everytime you refresh the page the layout changes from the 2006 layout, 2010 layout, the original orange layout and the current layout, and extra layouts, that way it is like random layout generator, I suggest u also add Santabot, Moon man and Mr.Krabs layout as well, also make a green and purple layout, and don't forgot the 2006 layout, maybe even a grey goose layout,
make YTMND Skins, like you can appy a skin for the site, like the 2006 layout, or this layout, or a bunch of others, and make it where we can upload an image and design are own personal layout, so I can make my Santa layout, or moon man, or girlform, or whatever... and other users can make there crappy layout's as well, and they could change or optimize it anytime,
for example on the user prefrences make it where u can upload an image to create a layout, or you could choose from preloaded layouts that you would upload, YTMND would be custimizable! now you probably are not going to take advice from me, but it is a good idea!
for example on the user prefrences make it where u can upload an image to create a layout, or you could choose from preloaded layouts that you would upload, YTMND would be custimizable! now you probably are not going to take advice from me, but it is a good idea!
I think I shall indulge in a rant -everyone else seems to be.
I hate the voting system on this site.
The first 10 votes have too weighted an impact on where a site ends up. A worthwhile site can conceivably never make the front page because a small group of users decide they don't like the site or the user. A couple of low votes and it's buried.
I used to see this happen all the time. Both for "high-effort" and "low-effort" sites, but I see it way more often with "high-effort" sites. There is an annoying trend among some users to shit on "not-funny" sites and chastise the creators for putting effort into their work. I really hate these fucking debates - guess what kids, your MurdarMachene ripoffs and Moon Man sites are "not funny" to other people too. And not all of us think sites have to be "funny" to have value.
There is no effective way for honest users to counter mass downvoters and trolls. The mods are asleep. Sorry guys, but this place is not well moderated, and this "community" needs moderation. It's too easy for people to create alts and downvote others.
In fact, the effort it takes to make a site is completely out of proportion with the ease which a "new user" can one-star a site. It's easier to be negative than positive here, which is why the helpful, generous, and creative users never last as long as the negative people who only come to mock others, feel-self-important, and seek justification for their nonsense by joining with other negative users.
The truth is that 1-star votes have more power than 5-star votes on a site's fate, and the people that wield this power indiscriminately are ruining the site.
I hate the voting system on this site.
The first 10 votes have too weighted an impact on where a site ends up. A worthwhile site can conceivably never make the front page because a small group of users decide they don't like the site or the user. A couple of low votes and it's buried.
I used to see this happen all the time. Both for "high-effort" and "low-effort" sites, but I see it way more often with "high-effort" sites. There is an annoying trend among some users to shit on "not-funny" sites and chastise the creators for putting effort into their work. I really hate these fucking debates - guess what kids, your MurdarMachene ripoffs and Moon Man sites are "not funny" to other people too. And not all of us think sites have to be "funny" to have value.
There is no effective way for honest users to counter mass downvoters and trolls. The mods are asleep. Sorry guys, but this place is not well moderated, and this "community" needs moderation. It's too easy for people to create alts and downvote others.
In fact, the effort it takes to make a site is completely out of proportion with the ease which a "new user" can one-star a site. It's easier to be negative than positive here, which is why the helpful, generous, and creative users never last as long as the negative people who only come to mock others, feel-self-important, and seek justification for their nonsense by joining with other negative users.
The truth is that 1-star votes have more power than 5-star votes on a site's fate, and the people that wield this power indiscriminately are ruining the site.
If YTMND wants to get better, it needs moderation. Full stop. There are a few things that could be tried:
1. [b]Get some fucking moderators.[/b] There are some good people that actually waste their free time here and would be fine curators of the site. I know you said not to ask about moderators, max, but you know what? I'm asking. This place needs them. Sorry, but you can't just wish away trolls.
[i]max, you've talked about making this site "self-moderated" but I think it would actually be easier on you to delegate the responsibility to others. If you still have some ambition to implement self-regulating mechanics on this site:[/i]
2. Add an algorithm to the voting system so that users who tend to "5" or "1" everything gets their votes "down-weighted" over time. Your 10,000th "1" vote isn't as much of a downvote as the first. It wouldn't just be a simple count of "number of 1-votes"; it would compare number of 1-votes to number of total votes and analyze the user's vote spread to determine if someone is a "downvoter" or "upvoter" or someone that only votes "1" or "5".
3. Restrict the voting privileges of new users. Voting should be more of an earned privilege, and less of a lazy entitlement. If new accounts couldn't vote, it would also remove the incentive to create alt accounts.
4. New users can be "fast-tracked" to voting privileges by contributing to the site. The best way would be to have a new user "vouched" by an older user, but you could also set up something that analyzed a user's sites and comments and measured it against some criterion (maybe something like how Featured Users worked). Moderators could also decide to promote an account.
1. [b]Get some fucking moderators.[/b] There are some good people that actually waste their free time here and would be fine curators of the site. I know you said not to ask about moderators, max, but you know what? I'm asking. This place needs them. Sorry, but you can't just wish away trolls.
[i]max, you've talked about making this site "self-moderated" but I think it would actually be easier on you to delegate the responsibility to others. If you still have some ambition to implement self-regulating mechanics on this site:[/i]
2. Add an algorithm to the voting system so that users who tend to "5" or "1" everything gets their votes "down-weighted" over time. Your 10,000th "1" vote isn't as much of a downvote as the first. It wouldn't just be a simple count of "number of 1-votes"; it would compare number of 1-votes to number of total votes and analyze the user's vote spread to determine if someone is a "downvoter" or "upvoter" or someone that only votes "1" or "5".
3. Restrict the voting privileges of new users. Voting should be more of an earned privilege, and less of a lazy entitlement. If new accounts couldn't vote, it would also remove the incentive to create alt accounts.
4. New users can be "fast-tracked" to voting privileges by contributing to the site. The best way would be to have a new user "vouched" by an older user, but you could also set up something that analyzed a user's sites and comments and measured it against some criterion (maybe something like how Featured Users worked). Moderators could also decide to promote an account.
1.) What exactly do you think moderation will do? All moderators could do in the past is mark sites NSFW. What exactly is so rampantly ruining the site that requires intervention?
2.) This has been discussed at length both in news posts and on the wiki. I don't want to get into the game of using the behavior of a user, their voting habits, or anything else to change the value of votes. A vote is a vote, and that isn't going to change.
3 + 4) This is something we've discussed in the past as well, but it ultimately punishes new members of the site much more than it would stop alt-voting. Using a time-based gating system would just get people to plan out alts and using an activity-based gating system would end up spamming the site. The easiest way to remove incentive for making alts is by deleting the main accounts of people who make alts to vote, which we've been doing.
2.) This has been discussed at length both in news posts and on the wiki. I don't want to get into the game of using the behavior of a user, their voting habits, or anything else to change the value of votes. A vote is a vote, and that isn't going to change.
3 + 4) This is something we've discussed in the past as well, but it ultimately punishes new members of the site much more than it would stop alt-voting. Using a time-based gating system would just get people to plan out alts and using an activity-based gating system would end up spamming the site. The easiest way to remove incentive for making alts is by deleting the main accounts of people who make alts to vote, which we've been doing.
Not all of us think sites have to be funny? Not all of us are in the right place. This is a humor site. Are you retarded? Go to youtube you liberal control freak fascist.
Yeah I 1'd your unfunny site the other day. Don't let that get you down. If a site has value, it's not contained within the rating, you ratings whore. A site exists for its own sake.
Yeah I 1'd your unfunny site the other day. Don't let that get you down. If a site has value, it's not contained within the rating, you ratings whore. A site exists for its own sake.
Here, now let me go on a rant. I'll be serious for this one.
There's been some good points made, but when the fuck have you forgotten that the main spectacle never showcased "good" and "funny" sites that anyone across the internet can enjoy?
[i]What sort of malarky have you been deluding yourselves with?[/i]
i thought ytmnd is a single meme with it's own dumb universe.
oh, right. i forgot, it's a special place for our special pop culture jokes also special inside jokes and with art.
[i]sorry, you're all only relevant to each other[/i].
ppppptttttttttt
and that's it from me.
There's been some good points made, but when the fuck have you forgotten that the main spectacle never showcased "good" and "funny" sites that anyone across the internet can enjoy?
[i]What sort of malarky have you been deluding yourselves with?[/i]
i thought ytmnd is a single meme with it's own dumb universe.
oh, right. i forgot, it's a special place for our special pop culture jokes also special inside jokes and with art.
[i]sorry, you're all only relevant to each other[/i].
ppppptttttttttt
and that's it from me.