diary of a madman
posted by max on December 05, 2006 at 06:42:41 AM
Greetings,
Now I know it's been a while since you've heard from me, but don't let that fool you, I've been busy!
Read more for info on all the new junk I've added.
New Site Creator/Editor
I've been working on this for a while and am pretty tired of it, as such it hasn't received a lot of testing, so I expect it to be pretty buggy for a few days. If you encounter reproducible errors, post here or send me a PM.
I've also added a "Holiday YTMNDs" content box, if your site has a keyword like: christmas, kwanza[a], ha[n]nukah, chan[n]ukah, etc, it will be in the running for this box. As always, keyword abuse is grounds for site deletion, so don't try and cheat.
I am also working out a new system for limiting edit changes, you can read about it here and discuss it here.
Now I know it's been a while since you've heard from me, but don't let that fool you, I've been busy!
Read more for info on all the new junk I've added.
New Site Creator/Editor
- New multiple step process for creating and editing sites.
- Stateless session allows you to begin creating or editing a site, close your browser and come back later to finish it off.
- Domains are now automagically reserved when you start the site creation process.
- Nifty uploading screen with sound!
- Dupe checking for titles, images and sounds complete with insulting warning messages.
- Color picker GUI.
- Site Preview!
- Site and User Citation: Back-reference other sites or authors and it will link them on the profile page.
- "Classic YTMND" classification for a future content box.
- Ability to set your own sites as NSFW.
- Live update of site keywords.
I've been working on this for a while and am pretty tired of it, as such it hasn't received a lot of testing, so I expect it to be pretty buggy for a few days. If you encounter reproducible errors, post here or send me a PM.
I've also added a "Holiday YTMNDs" content box, if your site has a keyword like: christmas, kwanza[a], ha[n]nukah, chan[n]ukah, etc, it will be in the running for this box. As always, keyword abuse is grounds for site deletion, so don't try and cheat.
I am also working out a new system for limiting edit changes, you can read about it here and discuss it here.
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max: re: also that's the gravediggaz 'diary of a madman', not ozzy. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ you really want me to make a newspost soundtrack?
Banning inside jokes is like banning images and sounds. 99% of the stuff on here is an inside joke... barrel roll, any current events jokes, anything that refers to a previous site (such as anything involving The King that presupposes some sort of knowledge of his ability to question all that you hold dear) etc. etc.
Also, parody is in and of itself an inside joke. You can't parody something without knowing about the original. Since it is not parody without referencing something else, it isn't a joke unless people know what it is parodying, and thus it is a form of an inside joke. Death to inside jokes = death to The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, England, etc.
The sites that change content are on the sponsored list, and they raise the average price for other sites to get on the sponsored list. This will both a.) eliminate two steady streams of sponsorship b.) reduce the average price to get a site on the sponsored list. Double whammy. Bad move, financially. Also, the points do absolutely nothing to stop a person from getting a site on the up and coming/top viewed and changing its content. That typically happens on the first day, anyways, and requires 3 points.
While it may not be apparent, YTMND requires its users to maintain a level of respect to the community and the rest of the internet. If you are planning on making a YTMND that contains any of the following elements:
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 (sush 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
Your sites may be deleted
OK, I've been trying to edit some of my sites (to get them ready for user/site back-references) and while they appear correctly, the preview image shows the third line of text as all three lines of text. Further, the very first time I edited a site, the site itself came out with the third text line repeated thrice (line 3,line 3,line 3 as opposed to line 1,line 2,line 3). Other than that, you know what you doing, take off every ' zig '.