Golden Brown
posted by max on 2007-09-26 14:57:06


hey folks,

I bet you've been wondering what I've been up to lately. I know I've been keeping pretty quiet, but I promise I've been extraordinarily busy. I've been trying to keep on top of people exploiting the system, I even added batch delete to the admin site. In the last week I deleted over 600 accounts, so you probably saw a lot of scores normalize.

The catch is that I haven't really been working on YTMND all that much. I've been working on a new website. Well, two actually. As a lot of you know, I never made YTMND expecting people to actually use it, beyond say 10-20 people. This time around, instead of taking six days to make an entire site and then spend the rest of my life fixing the various exploitable odds and ends and restructuring how everything works to make it scale, I'm actually designing as much as I can up front.

The first site is sort of generic, and probably won't be open to the public in any form that you'd want to use it. It's a scalable media store for websites like YTMND, or anything that requires hosting and organization of lots of small files. I hope to move YTMND over to use it once it's finished. For anyone interested in the technical aspects, it's a lot like MogileFS, Amazon's S3, and GoogleFS. It's a fairly large challenge on many levels.

Warning, this is where I get wordy:

The second site I'm waiting to announce until it's more developed. To get your brain churning, I've long held that most sites on the internet are more or less the same. Flickr, Youtube, YTMND, 4chan, Forums, "Blogs", etc. It's all the same media, but with different feature sets and organizations. Inherently, large communities form around these things which are usually obvious. Smaller sub-communities form as well, but are usually unnoticed or unknown.

Sites such as facebook aim to turn communities of people who know each other in person into an information sharing network. On the internet communities don't work like that, there are always people coming and going, alumni and "noobs". There will always be a larger number of people lurking than there will be participating. In most cases when you open up a system that allows anyone to participate, you end up getting more garbage and as a community gets larger, that becomes painfully more apparent.

I've always avoided "social-networking" as I feel like most of it's bullshit marketing drivel and when it comes down to it, the sites provide more useless garbage (SEND THIS FROG GIFT TO YOUR FRIEND FOR $1!!!) than they do actual usefulness. I don't care if you are posting this twitter(tm) message from your toilet. I don't want to know what you are listening to right this second. I don't want to read your profile. I don't want to browse your self-censored "wall". I want to sink my teeth into; something worth looking at.

This is why I'm not rich. I don't see the point of adding a facebook or myspace plugin even though it would bring millions of new people to YTMND, the kind of people that look at and click ads, as well as the kind that ruin communities.

I think YTMND ended up as an extension of how I feel in that aspect. YTMND users are what they make. Your profile page shows your sites, your comments, etc. It isn't the description of you that you wrote yourself, your avatar, your birth sign or your religious views, because I don't care about any of those things. If you want to show people who or what you are, do it using what's available.

This has caused a lot of people to create alts, and in most cases (where people aren't using them to upvote themselves) it's to separate styles and remove the associations with their main account. I find this sort of amazing, because outside of having knowledge through the admin system, I'd never match a lot of the people to their alts. It's almost like two completely different people. So how do you allow people to participate without the desire to split into multiple personalities? Or the burning need to create tons of accounts in order to prop their original account up to be seen by more people?

I feel like IRC is a perfect example of how real internet communities work. You have a plethora of people involved in multiple sub-communities at once, most of which have nothing to do with the name of their communities (or channels in this case) but grew into different groups of people that share the same space. How these communities start is less important than the fact that at a certain point, most smaller internet communities don't have an underlying theme beyond the people that make up the community itself.

So to summarize, I'm taking everything I've learned about the internet and more importantly managing (hah!) a large internet community and using it to create a new site where I'm going to avoid large communities like the plague. I want to create a site for people who want to see the internet as it really is and has been for the last decade: raw and uncut.

Do you remember when Intel was concerned with making better processors, not "mashups", back before a stupid phone caused an avalanche of contemptible, biased hype, like when paying 1.6 billion dollars for a business that will almost assuredly cost more to host than it will ever make was still a ludicrous idea, back when introverts ruled the internet?

Me too. This is who I want to cater to, this is who I've catered to on YTMND: myself.

So what does this mean for YTMND? Not much, yet. I'm still popping back and forth, but ultimately I think it means I'm going to give a lot more control over the site to mods, which I think is a good thing (assuming I pick good mods). Anyway, there will probably be some downtime this weekend as I will be in Chicago moving servers around, I may even pop in on lulzcon if I don't think it will cause me physical harm. Stay tuned for more updates semi-soon.


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2007-09-26 12:02:55 1st
 
also chicago style pizza what?
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2007-09-26 12:04:11 2nd
 
Oh man, there's this place called Giordano's in Chicago. It's all over the city, and there are also a few spots in Florida. I'd recommend checking it out, it isn't bad.
+6
 
2007-09-26 12:06:07 5th
 
I am from chicago. The sauce on top of the pizza is so good.
+5
 
2007-09-26 12:07:39 8th
 
The entire time I lived in Chicago I craved NY style pizza. Now that I'm in NY again, I'd kill for a Chicago style deep dish pie. Instant lactose intolerance.
+1
 
2007-09-26 12:07:53 10th
 
Get a 5 5 5 Deal, three medium one topping pizzas for five dollars each at Domino's
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2007-09-26 12:08:44 12th
 
pepperoni stuffed crust ftw
+1
 
2007-09-26 12:14:14 14th
 
"Oh man, there's this place called Giordano's in Chicago. It's all over the city, and there are also a few spots in Florida. I'd recommend checking it out, it isn't bad." Isn't bad? Giordano's pizza is ambrosia on bread. Also, this new site is intriguing, even though I still have no idea what it is. But if it means passing more control to ytmnd mods, then HOORAY NEW SITE!
+4
 
2007-09-26 12:22:05 29th
 
pizza in chicago? Connie's.
-2
 
2007-09-26 12:23:04 31st
 
No lie, Giordano's is like an orgasm in your mouth...only less salty.
+10
 
2007-09-26 12:23:07 32nd
 
Connie's?! Pfff, you're now banished from the city limits.
+2
 
2007-09-26 12:23:48 33rd
 
WH04
+4
 
2007-09-26 12:25:11 36th
 
If you want pizza in Chicago, your choices are Giordano's or Gino's East. There are no other acceptable options.
+3
 
2007-09-26 12:25:47 37th
 
lou malnatis the end
+1
 
2007-09-26 12:28:02 43rd
 
Brooklyn style or Philly Cheesesteak Pizza?
+1
 
2007-09-26 12:28:02 44th
 
jesus i need sparknotes or something for this entry, can someone summarize this so i don't have to read it
-1
 
2007-09-26 12:33:17 53rd
 
ok i just went ahead and read it. i still dont know whats going on.
+3
 
2007-09-26 12:34:39 54th
 
Whoah! He just stole Max's pizza!
+7
 
2007-09-26 12:40:03 56th
 
uno
 
2007-09-26 12:40:52 57th
 
chicago style pizza rules to be honest
+1
 
2007-09-26 12:41:50 59th
 
Whoa... he just stole that guys pizza!
+5
 
2007-09-26 12:44:25 61st
 
But what I really miss is Ricobene's breaded steak sandwiches and Hot Dougs...
+2
 
2007-09-26 12:45:52 63rd
 
Doug Funny? Did you just call him hot?
+1
 
2007-09-26 12:48:11 65th
 
razor gater
-2
 
2007-09-26 12:50:04 67th
 
Ricobene's does have good food, but their pizza is meh.
+3
 
2007-09-26 13:13:53 82nd
 
Golden Brown - The Stranglers SEE SNATCH.
+2
 
2007-09-26 13:14:24 83rd
 
Max, this is why I loke YTMND. You don't want to be like all of the other popular websites... you want to be original. You're not in it for yourself... you know this won't be bringing you lots of money. If this news post was a YTMND, I'd 5 it. By the way, we're all still waiting on your epic RRRRR!
+1
 
2007-09-26 13:15:38 84th
 
ya, i live in chicago and pizza is life. Well, that and the cubs/bears.
+1
 
2007-09-26 13:18:24 85th
 
Loked After Dark?
+2
 
2007-09-26 13:43:49 109th
 
Nice ideas max, I only hope they will work...
 
2007-09-26 14:11:52 116th
 
and super cheap beer+hotdogs
-1
 
2007-09-26 14:23:38 121st
 
;D what is this, I don't even
+3
 
2007-09-26 14:44:11 128th
 
Man, it's been a while. I was starting to get antsy.
 
2007-09-26 15:09:55 131st
 
Gino's > Giordano's
+1
 
2007-09-26 15:18:51 137th
 
A site for the black market? wut? weaponBay?
+1
 
2007-09-26 15:39:14 144th
 
i miss ricobenes. king size breaded steak sandwich ftw
+1
 
2007-09-26 15:40:30 146th
 
other than the food, i dont miss living in chicago
 
2007-09-26 16:20:52 160th
 
wat is the new what
+1
 
2007-09-26 16:22:06 161st
 
Chicago pizza is overrated. The best pizza is from Upstate New York.
-3
 
2007-09-26 16:23:24 162nd
 
Woah! He stole Chicago's style pizza!
+1
 
2007-09-26 16:30:49 163rd
 
f*ck chicago.
-2
 
2007-09-26 16:49:40 169th
 
It's a Pizzone.
+1
 
2007-09-26 17:11:14 175th
 
hola
+1
 
2007-09-26 17:27:16 178th
 
But I'm a vegan!
+4
 
2007-09-26 18:24:16 198th
 
I want in on the new page circle jerk. i have payed my dues.
 
2007-09-26 19:31:52 207th
 
Max if you are staying in chicago... Just visit Grubhub.com It basically lists all the restaurants in chicago that deliver to you. They have restaurants on there that deliver to 4am. Also they are rated using the 5 star system with reviews. I use it all the time.
+1
 
2007-09-26 20:00:34 220th
 
BROOKLYN
+1
 
2007-09-26 20:12:51 222nd
 
Giordano's is awesome, but clear some time in your schedule for trying to squeeze all that cheese out of your colon.
+3
 
2007-09-26 20:14:39 223rd
 
Lou Malnatis = win
+2
 
2007-09-26 20:28:13 225th
 
oh Max, dont leave us. I gotta let you know Max, I know your intentions are noble, and they're great, hell if I was in your position, I'll probably do the same as well. However, you gotta understand, what is the internet? (as we know, a series of tubes) Why is OVER 9000!!! so popular? Because of the people. We've grow to love ytmnd, I personally collect sites, I vote on them, then I copy them from my internet history and put them in a folder. YTMND is the only place that mixes humor and message.
+6
 
2007-09-26 20:35:45 227th
 
Sure that newer people will come and epic fail at understanding what it's all about, but people come and go. Why instantly make it so that those people will not understand our humor? By completely excluding them, because you think people are bad, which they are, you've created a wall, you've decided what to do before those people have a chance to defend themselves. Bringing more people isnt a problem, because we will deal with them when they create problems. We're all 100% behind you, Max.
+6
 
2007-09-26 20:46:19 229th
 
What is a city but its people?
+8
 
2007-09-26 21:04:50 232nd
 
F*CK
+1
 
2007-09-26 21:52:46 238th
 
~ I dub this the Greybrown wall. I claim it for Spain! ~
+2
 
2007-09-26 22:36:55 247th
 
ban fourest
+3
 
2007-09-26 22:42:09 248th
 
Genios pizza bitches!
+1
 
2007-09-27 04:34:06 253rd
 
Max is creating a new internet! Free p1zz4!
+1
 
2007-09-27 06:08:10 255th
 
I don't know what idiots are saying that chain restaurants make the best pizza in Chicago. Pizzaria Uno, and that is final.
-3
 
2007-09-27 07:31:18 262nd
 
i prefer the sand paper crust, deep dish makes me feel like im eating a casserole or something
+1
 
2007-09-27 10:16:27 271st
 
Giordano's sucks. Lou Malnatis (or even Rosatis in the burbs) all day.
+1
 
2007-09-27 11:25:19 278th
 
max if you show up at lulzcon make sure you bring a taser
+1
 
2007-09-28 17:23:43 319th
 
Golden Brown fried chickunz
+1
 
2007-09-28 19:09:56 321st
 
You HAVE to go to the http://www.chicagopizzaandovengrinder.com/ 2121 NORTH CLARK STREET 773-248-2570 Pizza Pot Pie, no other place has it, it is soo good. Good Salads too, and Mediterranean Bread. You can get deep dish pizza anywhere. Another good place is Pizzeria Uno on 29 East Ohio and Pizzeria Due on 619 North Wabash Avenue. The birthplace of the Deep Dish.
+1
 
2007-09-29 03:57:15 327th
 
This might be the first and only time in my life that I agree with Father-McKenzie. Lou Malnatis is superb.
+1
 
2007-09-29 16:41:59 335th
 
lol wut
 
2007-10-01 16:11:21 355th
 
Lou Malnatis. Yes.
+1
 
2007-10-02 10:36:17 359th
 
went to lou malnati's. the "butter crust" hit my stomach like an atomic bomb. was delightful.
+2
 
2007-10-03 11:44:51 370th
 
Now you can't say F-M has no taste!
+2
 
 
2007-09-26 12:16:08 16th
 
..
-4
 
 
 
 
 
2007-09-26 12:20:27 25th
 
ellipsis'd
+5
 
 
 
2007-09-26 13:10:21 79th
 
.......
-6
 
 
 
2007-09-26 14:38:00 125th
 
Not even worth a combo breaker.
+9
 
2007-09-26 16:03:47 150th
 
:
-4
 
2007-09-26 17:22:48 177th
 
. . .
 
2007-09-26 18:06:48 194th
 
C-c-c-combo Breaker!!!
-2
 
2007-09-26 18:08:53 195th
 
Why? BECAUSE I"M A GIANT PENIS
-3
 
2007-10-11 16:34:04 402nd
 
I admire your honesty...
+2
 
 
2007-09-26 19:05:02 205th
 
NO! I CAN'T SPEAK ENGLISH VERY WELL!
+3
 
2007-10-24 17:52:13 462nd
 
ENGLISH MOTHERF*CKER DO YOU SPEAK IT!
+1
 
2007-09-26 12:07:06 7th
 
Never a frown with golden brown.
-1
 
2007-09-26 15:27:43 141st
 
Awesome song
+1
 
2007-09-28 18:10:32 320th
 
Awesome implications.
+2
2007-09-26 12:07:50 9th
 
Cool. =)
-3
2007-09-26 12:08:38 11th
 
-4
 
2007-09-27 05:58:22 254th
 
-1
 
2007-09-27 10:30:42 272nd
 
There should be something that instantly bans people who put nothing useful in a comment.
+1
2007-09-26 12:09:31 13th
 
Posting this YTMND news post reply from my toilet.
+4
 
2007-09-26 16:13:57 153rd
 
pics plz
+4
 
2007-09-27 14:24:24 284th
 
lawl.
-1
2007-09-26 12:14:39 15th
 
I support this new venture.
2007-09-26 12:17:21 17th
 
When do we get avatars? =(
-6
 
2007-09-26 12:41:32 58th
 
Missed the point completely / 10
+1
 
 
2007-09-26 12:29:32 47th
 
you're who i'm trying to avoid.
+41
 
2007-09-26 12:30:13 48th
 
hims and the noid. You HAVE to avoid the noid. He steals your pizza's freshness.
+10
 
2007-09-26 12:31:38 51st
 
And delivers sermons on the sanctity of deliciousness.
+3
 
2007-09-26 15:24:34 140th
 
if you put ketchup on your Bratwurst (which i know you're gonna have cause Brats OWN) i will put the 'ax' in Max.
+2
 
2007-09-26 17:51:34 189th
 
why the hate :(
-6
 
2007-09-27 22:37:47 300th
 
URtheMANnowDAWG's comment is full of win.
-2
 
2007-09-28 11:27:11 312th
 
are you now, or have you ever been a noob?
+1
 
 
2007-09-26 18:31:20 199th
 
bootlicker.
+1
2007-09-26 12:19:03 22nd
 
If I see that f*cking prarie dog one more time I'm going to go on a shooting rampage.
+4
 
2007-09-26 13:27:46 91st
 
I hope you're not talking about me
+3
 
2007-09-26 13:45:44 110th
 
wouaoouaouuuuaoouuu I was raised by a cup of coffee...
2007-09-26 12:19:38 23rd
 
جمهورية مصر العربية
-2
 
2007-09-26 12:20:49 27th
 
nice copy + paste dumbass
-3
 
2007-09-26 12:22:28 30th
 
Well, now we know Arabic font is no longer feasible on YTMND.
+6
2007-09-26 12:20:15 24th
 
in before most
-3
2007-09-26 12:20:41 26th
 
nsfw!
+1
2007-09-26 12:20:51 28th
 
Who the f*ck uses alts?
+6
 
2007-09-26 12:24:19 34th
 
nazi's
+2
 
2007-09-26 12:26:19 39th
 
Secret nazi fourests
+15
 
2007-09-26 12:26:48 40th
 
who the f*ck uses alts?
 
2007-09-26 12:29:20 46th
 
TAG TAG TAG, ALT IST MEIN TAG, ALT IST MEIN TAG
+2
 
2007-09-26 13:30:58 96th
 
keyboards do
+7
 
2007-09-26 19:32:22 208th
 
F4's?
+2
 
2007-09-27 17:02:20 288th
 
i am volume
+1
2007-09-26 12:24:47 35th
 
sweet dude!
-2
2007-09-26 12:26:18 38th
 
KHAN STAPLER
-1
 
2007-09-26 17:28:36 179th
 
But I'm a vegan!
2007-09-26 12:27:07 41st
 
There once was a man fro Nantucket.
-5
 
2007-09-26 19:33:22 209th
 
He lived his whole life in a bucket.
-1
 
2007-09-26 20:38:11 228th
 
He looked hole, like a little brown mole... crawled back in and said "F*ck it"
+3
2007-09-26 12:27:58 42nd
 
Yep, im just gonna say Good Job max, now go drink some grey goose. I cant pay though, im a broke college student
2007-09-26 12:28:33 45th
 
But seriously, what's the difference between your idea and the use of forums, or a customizable social network-creator like ning.com?
 
2007-09-26 16:16:36 156th
 
it wont be run by n*gg*rs.
2007-09-26 12:31:07 50th
 
I wonder what you think of Livejournal. Most people on there tend to be in smaller groups, and watch only the groups that interest them. Sure, the whole site is devoted to the lives of individuals, but there are very few asshats, compared to other sites (and when an asshat does pop up, you just block them from commenting, and then the rest of the community does the same).
+1
 
2007-09-26 12:50:47 68th
 
the only people i know on LJ are asshats.
+3
 
2007-09-26 17:49:24 187th
 
LiveJournal is like deviantART without the art. deviantART is like deviants without the ART.
+1
2007-09-26 12:31:52 52nd
 
Remember to include punch and pie.
+3
2007-09-26 12:35:40 55th
 
Wow, something on YTMND made good sense. F*cking golden age or what?
2007-09-26 12:42:11 60th
 
Good luck
+1
2007-09-26 12:45:05 62nd
 
Texture-like sun, lays me down, With my mind she runs. Throughout the night, no need to fight. Never a frown with Golden Brown.
-2
2007-09-26 12:50:57 69th
 
Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
+1
 
2007-09-27 08:16:03 264th
 
interesting relevant philosophical point there. is it a quote? where from?
 
2007-09-27 19:58:56 291st
 
the fountainhead, BLEH!!!!!!!!!!!
 
2007-10-17 04:14:46 443rd
 
Was it not obvious? His name is f*cking Howard Roark.
2007-09-26 12:52:13 70th
 
I look forward to future innovations.
+2
 
2007-09-26 12:58:46 74th
 
Me too.
+1
2007-09-26 12:54:00 71st
 
Maud system.
+1
2007-09-26 12:55:16 72nd
 
ohok
2007-09-26 12:56:51 73rd
 
something...
2007-09-26 13:05:24 76th
 
You see, thats why I don't use my myspace at all: Because I don't give a sh*t about everyone elses, annd thus see mine as equally pointless.
2007-09-26 13:07:03 77th
 
84th
-1
2007-09-26 13:07:30 78th
 
i am very excited to be here!
2007-09-26 13:12:42 80th
 
I can't wait to see the final result.
2007-09-26 13:13:16 81st
 
ytmnd has been dead for a long, long time.
+1
 
2007-10-02 16:57:35 361st
 
I've got some...new sites!
2007-09-26 13:19:13 86th
 
hmm sounds interesting.....: )
+1
2007-09-26 13:20:31 87th
 
bonus for posting Group Enemy again.
2007-09-26 13:21:41 88th
 
About time for an update
2007-09-26 13:21:52 89th
 
also c*cks
-1
2007-09-26 13:24:41 90th
 
-------------Max, thanks for posting the phone number & email of that guy with the 210 alts. That was a fun 24 hours. What ever happened to your idea of a WALL OF SHAME to punish those sort of people?
+3
 
2007-09-26 14:15:54 118th
 
we dont need a special place to honor trolls. the ytmnd wiki is bad enough in promoting garbage.
+1
 
2007-09-26 14:36:56 124th
 
What ever happened to the idea of an updated WALL OF FAME.
 
2007-09-26 17:01:57 172nd
 
I want money-hats sweet ass!<3
 
 
2007-09-26 13:30:19 93rd
 
Basically he's saying he's shutting down YTMND, and it's all your fault.
+3
 
2007-09-26 13:52:47 111th
 
Oh I'm sorry I was too busy reading that article about groupthink.
+2
 
2007-09-26 19:37:11 211th
 
1984 reference = +5 non-conformity points
+1
 
2007-09-26 21:52:23 237th
 
heatherchandler is the best troll i know that uses their full name
+9
 
2007-09-27 06:53:44 259th
 
This is clearly an alias, please leave all the poor Heather Chandlers out there alone... my name is totally different. I thought your sister liked "Heathers" max, ask her about it. 80s girl trolling is awesome.
+1
 
2007-09-28 08:41:33 306th
 
HeatherChandler's real name is Marv Buttinski. He's a 43-year old private security contractor from Reminderville Ohio who works a night shift at the Aurora Road Radio Shack in Solon four nights a week, staked out in a beige 1987 Subaru Justy to keep the local skate punks from waxing up the curbs and chipping the new park benches. He enjoys mini golf, base jumping, and cleaning his gun collection while watching fat porn. He's a Libra.
+6
 
2007-09-30 17:04:07 346th
 
heh u said butt
+1
 
2007-09-30 19:01:18 348th
 
>gr33nscr33n Been one of the first posts that have made me laugh in a long time
 
2007-10-03 11:38:16 369th
 
Hello Tyrannosaurus Allen, I have AIDS
2007-09-26 13:30:52 94th
 
I like the number 100, but I doubt I'll get it
-2
2007-09-26 13:30:56 95th
 
get rid of the whole featured users feature. the users featured are always rejected piles of horse c*ck
 
2007-09-26 13:36:50 102nd
 
The featured users feature features featured users featured on the featured user list.
 
2007-09-26 13:37:30 103rd
 
featuring sh*tty feature c*ck
 
2007-09-26 19:37:05 210th
 
Welfare?
2007-09-26 13:30:59 97th
 
dude c*cks
-1
2007-09-26 13:32:25 98th
 
Max, how do you intend this "community" idea to work and not make it some sort of giant circle jerk? Because putting a size limit would be, IMO, not that great, and the limiting of illegal activities would also be hard to control (IE Child Porn, Orkut thing). Would these different small communities have some sort of communication or would they be cut off?
 
2007-09-26 13:33:03 99th
 
shut ur hole
-2
 
2007-09-26 17:39:43 184th
 
more like Ogrish thing
2007-09-26 13:36:08 100th
 
This news post is a large wall of text with no content.
 
2007-09-26 13:42:28 108th
 
I'm very content.
-1
2007-09-26 13:36:18 101st
 
"avoid large communities like the plague" What? As soon as you announce it every jackoff here will go running there trying to be the first at everything. Spreading all the crap that YTMND and other internets have spurted out and sh*t it onto that site. Don't you consider YTMND a big community? I'm sure its at least 99x bigger than any IRC channel you consider to be a "real" one. I think if you had any hope for this project to be an actual success, you wouldn't have told YTMNDers about it.
+1
2007-09-26 13:37:35 104th
 
YTMND user groups would have the same effect on this site as you discuss for a potential new site. Gathering users together into a group with assorted features such as "Member Sites" "Member Recommendations" etc. without taking away from ytmnd as a whole or each site. All it does is provide a more convenient and passive system for the active supplements that people typically use (like #?!) to pass along ytmnd related information.
2007-09-26 13:40:31 106th
 
introverts 4tw
+1
2007-09-26 13:42:14 107th
 
I want a site where we can anonymously share ungodly amounts of porn, but with threads that don't get deleted. (insert CP joke here)
-2
 
2007-09-26 14:35:12 123rd
 
also screw this reply voting thing
+1
 
2007-09-26 21:54:49 239th
 
i know exactly what you want, in all honesty i've been looking at more *chans than i ever planned to when i started this project.
+1
 
2007-09-27 11:51:34 280th
 
4chan, 7chan, 12chan, 420chan
 
2007-09-29 17:16:29 336th
 
max, you can't wash that kind of mental filth away, can you?
 
2007-09-30 19:04:45 350th
 
Once a chan hits your retina everything you take in is meticulously stored in your subconscious, just waiting for the day some pimply Albertsons f*ck doesn't bag your yogurt right.
2007-09-26 13:59:29 112th
 
I want to sink my teeth into; something worth looking at. semicolon semicolon semicolon semicolon semicolon semicolon semicolon semicolon semicolon semicolon semicolon semicolon semicolon semicolon semicolon semicolon semicolon semicolon semicolon semicolon semicolon semicolon semicolon semicolon
 
2007-09-27 13:07:49 283rd
 
I was thinking of the line from Joseph Conrad's 'Almayer's Folly', "Do you hear? I had it all there; so; within reach of my hand."
+1
2007-09-26 14:00:39 113th
 
pizza metro on Division st's 'garbage' pizza is super good.
2007-09-26 14:10:29 115th
 
ytmnd needs more picture sound and text and less f*ggy short films
2007-09-26 14:15:30 117th
 
read it all
2007-09-26 14:18:09 120th
 
Sounds good... nay, ideal. 10/10.
2007-09-26 14:30:22 122nd
 
Sounds interesting. I've never been into having profiles and wanting to know the substance behind people. If I want to know you better I'll contact you. Anyway, I think I want to be a mod. I never wanted to be one before, because I thought it would ruin the fun of this site for me, but now I want it. Now I want to be one.
+2
 
2007-09-26 15:40:06 145th
 
I feel the same way. When max released the news post and said anyone wanting to be a moderator should make a site I made 2 completely sarcastic sites providing no actual merit as to why I should actually be appointed mod. However as time passes I can see there is a big mess to clean up on YTMND just about every time of the day and I think that my approach to YTMND as a whole is mature enough to handle the task of moderator unlike you know who.
 
2007-09-26 15:42:55 147th
 
^ lol another CreepPipe Attack Campaign!
 
2007-09-26 19:00:42 204th
 
I sudder to think that Fourest could become a mod based on his popularity alone. I know he wants to be one. I know I can come off as being a prick (a lot of people don't catch on to my sarcasm), but I'm not a petty, vengeful person. I wouldn't pull an adverb and flag a site as NSFW because I didn't like it. Hell, I'm twice the age of most of the users here.
+2
 
2007-09-28 08:48:26 307th
 
If fourest became a mod I'd become the most obnoxious troll here yet.
2007-09-26 14:39:31 126th
 
Great news post. I agree 100% with your opinions on social networking features, max. I'm glad you see YTMND's lack of them as an advantage. YTMND should remain focused on user created content, not the users themselves. To be is to do. Do be do be do...
+4
2007-09-26 14:42:43 127th
 
yay... tell me more about the new cool stuff
2007-09-26 14:53:26 129th
 
alright. but for some reason, i just have this weird feeling that someday, sooner than i'd like, something bad will happen to this site. Not saying any fault or blame or anger, just sayin' that I have a weird feeling.
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2007-09-26 14:59:43 130th
 
"Golden Brown" isn't referring to the Stranglers song. It actually stands for Gold & Brown, aka Money & Ass. The two things of yours that he wants the most.
 
2007-09-26 17:48:33 186th
 
Anti-semite.
2007-09-26 15:10:04 132nd
 
I like how you are thinking about giving more control over to the mods, mainly becuase its really hard for there to be one super mod regulating everything than it is if more control is distributed between lower mods so that your job is a helluva lot easier, especially since your working really hard on your new websites.
2007-09-26 15:12:22 133rd
 
Good luck max.
+1
2007-09-26 15:16:15 134th
 
Informative post on the current state of affairs relating to the site. Thank you for your effort.
+2
2007-09-26 15:18:11 135th
 
Hmm... I am intrigued by these new sites of yours as well as your plans to fix up ytmnd. Oh well to be honest, it is not of significant interest to me as of yet. I am only here reading your news because I have a big headache from playing Halo 3.
+1
2007-09-26 15:18:44 136th
 
This is a GAME - and I just fell for the TRAP.
2007-09-26 15:23:11 139th
 
i like the pizzone
2007-09-26 15:29:18 142nd
 
Good luck with those other projects Max, good to see your taking on other things other then Ytmnd. Not choosing to selling out is the best possible step anyone with fame/power could do. Bravo.
2007-09-26 15:30:41 143rd
 
They have a site like you want with raw/chaos. Its called 4chan
2007-09-26 15:48:12 148th
 
Interesting sociological take on the interweb
2007-09-26 15:51:30 149th
 
admittedly i only skimmed through what you wrote very very quickly and saw crap about facebook and myspace and there being more updates semi-soon. i think i have what youre looking for for that update, http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/2641/loleu1.jpg
+4
2007-09-26 16:04:10 151st
 
158th
+2
2007-09-26 16:10:10 152nd
 
Great post. I know exactly what you're talking about. May the old nerdnet live again!
-1
2007-09-26 16:15:14 154th
 
too many words = auto 1
-1
2007-09-26 16:16:32 155th
 
You know, I barely read these things, and I don't really consider myself to be part of the YTMND "community" (if it exists), but I like your outlook. 5'd. (Whoops. Habit...)
2007-09-26 16:17:05 157th
 
Oh boy
-2
2007-09-26 16:18:44 158th
 
lol just avoid the south side... i live north of it suburbs... woo!
 
2007-09-26 16:31:56 164th
 
THAT'S RIGHT THERE IS NO CRIME ON THE NORTH SIDE EVER ALSO AS SOON AS YOU CROSS CERMACK ROAD GOING SOUTH YOU ARE IMMEDIATELY RAPED
+2
 
2007-09-26 16:36:22 166th
 
^ LOL! +1
 
2007-09-26 16:36:43 167th
 
yeah that's the crip side
 
2007-09-26 16:51:38 170th
 
We don't have Crips and Bloods, we have the GD's and the VLN. Gangsters in Chicago can't spell Crip and Blood, which is why they have to use abbreviations.
 
2007-09-26 16:53:51 171st
 
Also we have a gang with the coolest name ever: The Insane Popes. That's a real street gang, you can look them up if you want.
-1
 
2007-09-26 17:56:56 193rd
 
6 down all day from da g.d.k.
 
2007-09-27 08:30:00 266th
 
just as a point of interest what do the gang abbreviations GD's and VLN stand for? could it be the "Gay Dude's and the Vagina Licking N*ggers"?
2007-09-26 16:19:13 159th
 
I'm intregued by this new site idea, but as a lowly n00b who has never used IRC, how can I get in on this? Because, on the other hand, I do remember the time long before "Web 2.0" allowed crap to be seen everywhere, and before cell phones brought it everywhere in the real world.
2007-09-26 16:32:45 165th
 
Will the new site have Ariel porn on it?
+3
2007-09-26 16:43:32 168th
 
It's like I've been waiting for this all my life.
2007-09-26 17:04:37 173rd
 
I want to create a site for people who want to see the internet as it really is and has been for the last decade: raw and uncut. ------> thank god
-2
2007-09-26 17:10:49 174th
 
This feels so relevant and so not. But Tom was on the Today show this morning and I, as some who joined myspace before it became the hit and snowballed into a phrase, was curious. Myspace is a way to show people how you want to be seen. Much like an account on ytmnd, you put what you're comfortable with. I feel screen names on ytmnd are characters, and people on myspace, are well people. still, both can lie just as easily as the other.
+1
2007-09-26 17:15:10 176th
 
YEAH YTMNDHXC4EVER
2007-09-26 17:30:04 180th
 
Are you going to fix the site anytime soon? It's not letting me create YTMNDs.
 
 
2007-09-26 22:00:08 241st
 
stop being a tool, you're better than that.
+6
 
2007-09-27 19:50:07 290th
 
No he's not
+7
2007-09-26 17:37:08 182nd
 
DON'T TASE ME BRO
+1
2007-09-26 17:37:38 183rd
 
YTMND in evolution?
-1
2007-09-26 17:39:45 185th
 
Golden Brown, Texture like sun. Lays me down, with my mind she runs. Throughout the night, no need to fight, never a frown, with golden brown.
+1
2007-09-26 17:51:59 190th
 
You're in my top 8 friends. Max!!1
2007-09-26 17:53:50 191st
 
someone's going globular! FAN-rad-ass-tastic! when can I purchase my share?!?!? TELL ME MORE!
2007-09-26 18:20:17 196th
 
Max. dude. you miss the whole point of youtube and facebook. they are simply vessels to bring in more people to advertise to. advertising is what makes real $$
-5
2007-09-26 18:23:58 197th
 
Dneeht
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