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I apolagize for being negative, however I do not intend to "Pay". I love this website, one of the reasons is because it's free. I don't want YTMND to sell out like everything else i've loved in the past. Seems the trend wont end. Also, I have a lot of YTMND's that are inner jokes with my friends. Obviously they've ranked really low, but my friends and I find them hilarious. It's too bad they'll delete because of downvoting...

I really want a YTMND hoodie. It's so cold here. :(

Max, I've been coming to YTMND since they were individual sites with seperate domain names. I personally think the paid users idea is good, but for the love of God don't make it a recurring payment. It's the one thing that stops me from signing up for almost anything. I don't want the extra hassle. One thing you might consider, for paid users, is the ability to choose between the corner image and the ! # system that we all loved so much. (Globally, not just for their sites.) I'd also like to see a loader for those sites that always have "Refresh" in their titles. I have absolutely no idea how you would implement this as I don't know if there are any calls you can make from within the browser to get loading status data but it's a thought. Here's another one I just thought of: Make SURE that people are required to type in their image and sound origins before the site creation system will allow them to submit. That's about all for me.

Well..You have sure been busy Max. As far as paying for extra features, Im all game, Pending on how much you wanna charge and how you wanna charge it (Yearly, Monthly, Quarterly). I know its not set in stone, But some of the things up there qould do nothing but Add to this site. Some, like the Moderatior Ques, Would take away from it. If you worried about content of YTMND's, (Meaning you dont want a huge flasted penis showing up when someone clicks on a link to "The New Picard Song" or something), You might consider More Mods? Anything but Mod Ques. That would do nothing but cause frustraition and confusion. And we both know that if one of those things happen, these guys tend to Riot.

Hey Max: If you want to farm out some programming work (i.e. session class wrappers, db class wrappers, etc), let me know.

Hey Max: If you want to farm out some programming (esp. wrapper classes and/or ajax GUI design), let me know. Gratz on putting the Baumans in their place, btw.

I am not a lawyer, but I am also the webmaster of a website, and I have recently been threatened with a lawsuit over a comment one user made about another on my forums. According to the lawyers I have talked to, Communications Decency Act 230 will protect you, but only if you are a content provider and not a moderator. If you create the moderation queue as you propose you will become liable for the content that users create here. You do not want that, and YTMND users do not want that. It only takes one overzealous thin skinned knuckledragger to destroy this whole thing for everyone.

And there should be a generic sounds list so that the server doesn't have 50000 copies of fad songs stored on it. Also, a silence option if for some reason you don't want sound on your site.

I've got this idea to help out people who want to show off their YTMNDs but have no way to do so, a "shout-out" box on the first page with 10 YTMNDs, if a user "shouts-out" their YTMND it'll be bumped to the top of this list and will only dissappear when the list is filled again. Another idea!: Instead of letting users upload any image as their profile image why not use something like Gaia Online where all the Avatars are different yet alike (bennetton rly?), something like, i dunno, a 9x6 ASCII (colored) text box that can be edited by users, like this: by default: 888888888 888888888 888888888 888888888 888888888 888888888 it would cut a lot on image space not to mention make www.ytmnd.com and even more unique site.

btw: another thing that scraps the lower end of my femur is that when i organize my, or another user's, ytmnds it always organizes from in rising order when 99.9% of the times i want to see either the top rated, top viewed, etc.

All looks brilliant (even for those who won't pay) but the auto-deletion due to score seems a bit scary. Not only will some famously low-rated sites disappear, but it seems so unneeded with the more reasonable deletion criteria implemented. I'm very good about deleting the sites I have made that are flops, but I kind of want to see all the classic failures still in place. Wow, this website is going to look like (gasp) a normal website!

nooooo i want the old forums backkkkkkkkkk :'( but i do understand your points max

ya, there's sites that deserve 5's, but I don't 5 them because I don't really want them on my favorites

Okay, when half the sites I access are a black screen, and I'm forced to weed through Picard, Conan, WoW, and MATHPWND, you can go straight to hell as far as garnering $$$. "Show this to the old woman?" Sponsored? Are you f*cking high? I love this site more than any other, even though people bust my balls for it. But for chrissakes, this auto-delete bullsh*t is just dumb. I don't want this place reduced to Blue Balls and sites you think are cute that amount to having the humor of a test pattern. I understand that you have a rough task everyday running this site, and you do it out of love rather than it being lucrative, but if you want YTMND to self destruct, just come out and say so. Let's not overthink things...especially since this site began with something incredibly moronic and silly. It's hard to swallow the idea of you considering yourself the arbiter of fine intarwebbing in light of that.

hey I REALLY like the T-shirt idea for raising money for the site, kinda like Halo did with their fight the flood T's...except we wont donate the money. We could either get a poll going of the design to go with, or use the Sean Connery one, or even use a design from one of the "all the fads" ytmnd's... just a thought, but I know I wanted to buy a Fight the Flood T just because it was badass, but it was too late by the time I had heard about it. Well...one problem might be the whole profitting off of someone else's image. You'd have to look into that I guess.

Small problem with the T-Shirt idea... aside from the website logo, EVERYTHING else on here is copyrighted (At least anything that people would recognize/buy), and they'd want a piece of the profits for the T-Shirts, I'm sure (or just skip a step and sue you for making money off of them without permission), so I think we might want to save that for a last resort.

If there were a assets->.swf conversion in the uploading, wouldn't Macromedia want some huge expensive license fee ?

This sounds really good, much better than the auto delete feature for sites with an average vote of less than 2.5. I think the "# !" should be an optional feature available for people who have a YTMND account, and the "YTMND" logo should be the default view for anyone. (Including people logged in who haven't chosen the "# !" view option. Alot of these options are good ideas, but I think the flash sites should be optional for those who want a site where a refresh should be nessisary. People sometimes download the image or sound to modify it. I think you mentioned some sort of fix for this in the last post. But I'm really liking the weighted voting.

http://opentmnd.sourceforge.net/ C'mon, you know you want to. p.s. thx

max you put so much work into this i jsut wanted to say thanks for creating something so addictive to take away my pain. and tell E-Bum he can rot in hell

I demand that only moderators ban downvoters like tehpwner2. Plus I want an alternative to pay OTHER than Paypal!

It sounds good and everything, one thing that i would add if i were you is a better rating system. Don't get me wrong, the 5 star method is good but kinda too low of a range. What i mean by this is that about 2/3's of the sites are 3 or 4 star sites. This means that you have thousands of ratings that are 3.56,4.57,3.89,4.23,3.76,3.39. For a better rating system, use the old school 1 through 10. With this said in mind, it would be easier for users to view the high rating sites that they want to. If you had the ten star raiting system like i said, you can view all the high rating videos which would be in the 8's, 9's, and 10 area and would be very easy for user's to find. Everything with the 5 star rating system is good but like i said before, not a large enough range to rate these sites. Thats all i gotta say and if you want to see a really funny video, type in "Ernie commited Suicide" its a good site...later Max

Max... You're the f*cking man now dog!!! I mean wow! you made me so f*cking happy. These are things i've always wanted to on YTMND.com! It's like you took all the feature I always wanted and more, And make something so great.. All my repect and love has gone to you Max. Thank you.

tehpwner: "they're upset that someone told them the truth about their site." - oh screw you and your 'truth', with people like me you've put a grudge in your head that isnt there and just 1 everything in site. inkdrinker is honest, you're not. you get off on being the one everyone hates and its just sad. i dont hate you, i just think you're pathetic, and the reason you dont make sites is because, unlike inkdrinker, you probably couldnt make a good one if you tried. if you gave a crap about ytmnd you'd make one despite getting it downvoted to hell... you can make fun of Chav-Slayer all you want but theres a reason you had your account deleted.

^i agree with you there. i like my Runaway YTMND and everything... but I know I have sites better than that... when a newspaper clipping about a ytmnd fad in a student newspaper is a bigger deal than supporting something new... problem... its why i had to bribe people to be in "lounge club"... at least its something new. i dont want to compare to WWF/WWE wrestling because someones jsut going to say 'huh huh wrestling is gay'... but i think it holds water: wrestling was able to get big in the late 90s becuase since there were smaller arenas, characters got over easier... smaller crowd = easier to get a chant going and make someone stand out. YTMND is like wrestling in the sense that characters need to 'get over' for a fad to be thrive. Milton or Khan or any of this stuff wouldnt survive long being introduced today, just as in wrestling new characters dont do well in WWE because their crowds are too big for a chant to stand out... now things get chewed up and spit out in weeks. remember Marguerite Perrin?

I'll admit to being an upvoter, as you say... but it's not for the reason you say... it's because of those climbing score needs. I want my favourite sites to get higher and that's why I vote 5's for them. Alas, a problem that perpetuates a problem, I suppose...

And for once I agree with KingCrimson. A "Top Users" list is going to lead to more bitter kids backstabbing each other to climb the list, and more people being rewarded for sub-par work because they're recognized on the list. Being recognized ANYWHERE on the front page is your ticket to undeserved accolades. But every improvement and tweak is just a stopgap measure to dealing with the real problem: the place is just too damn big to sustain a creative culture. As I'm posting, ALL FIVE top 5 are related directly to YTMND. We've got so many people that the lowest common denominator is pushed all the way down to "YTMND." It's the only thing we all have in common, so it's all that succeeds anymore. Do we really want a site where 100% of the content is totally self-referential?

no top users list... ever been to that RateMyBody site? ranking users will not only create bitterness, it will cause top rated people to probably whore themselves out for votes so they can keep their spot... "top users" - bad bad idea... if YTMND wants to create some users hall of fame or something, do it in wikipedia, not here.

the flash will be a double edged sword. it will make it more difficult for users to make duplicate sites by just saving pictures and sounds from others, but it will also prevent legit users from downloading sounds and pictures they want.

sounds like it will take a long time. but most of it sounds good. how much are we takling about if we want to sign up as a paid member becaue ill be willing to.