Medieval Retrowax
posted by max on February 16, 2007 at 04:18:32 PM
Dear Max,
We hope this note finds you well. Your Webby Awards entry YTMND.com in the Viral category, has moved on to the next round of Webby judging. For this stage, in addition to the URL and entry information you've already provided, we now need a 2:00-3:00 minute, high-quality version of your entry, highlighting the segments or portions of your work that you feel best represent the overall piece.
Along with your original URL and entry information, this reel will compliment your entry throughout the next phases of the judging process. Should your entry eventually be honored, this clip may be:
* Used to showcase your achievement to Webby Voice Voters and the public at large at Webbyawards.com.
* Aired live at The Webby Film & Video Awards in New York City in June 2007.
* Used to promote your achievement in broadcast, traditional and other forms of media.
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Your task, should you choose to complete it, is to create a 2-3 minute high res video that highlights why YTMND is so awesome. Due to me only being notified about this today, we have until Wednesday. Try to upload a copy somewhere and email me at max@ytmnd.com.
If you make the best video your work will possibly be broadcast at the webbys and you will also receive a free print of every shirt I ever sell in the future.
EDIT: This video obviously needs to be work safe, and the goal here is to highlight YTMND's good side, not a fad compilation that no one outside of the site would understand. The goal here is to make something that other people can "get".
We hope this note finds you well. Your Webby Awards entry YTMND.com in the Viral category, has moved on to the next round of Webby judging. For this stage, in addition to the URL and entry information you've already provided, we now need a 2:00-3:00 minute, high-quality version of your entry, highlighting the segments or portions of your work that you feel best represent the overall piece.
Along with your original URL and entry information, this reel will compliment your entry throughout the next phases of the judging process. Should your entry eventually be honored, this clip may be:
* Used to showcase your achievement to Webby Voice Voters and the public at large at Webbyawards.com.
* Aired live at The Webby Film & Video Awards in New York City in June 2007.
* Used to promote your achievement in broadcast, traditional and other forms of media.
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Your task, should you choose to complete it, is to create a 2-3 minute high res video that highlights why YTMND is so awesome. Due to me only being notified about this today, we have until Wednesday. Try to upload a copy somewhere and email me at max@ytmnd.com.
If you make the best video your work will possibly be broadcast at the webbys and you will also receive a free print of every shirt I ever sell in the future.
EDIT: This video obviously needs to be work safe, and the goal here is to highlight YTMND's good side, not a fad compilation that no one outside of the site would understand. The goal here is to make something that other people can "get".
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"All I say is that if you have have an alt, and I think I've got like 10 by now. Just
don't cast any votes with them and you're all good." = I agree non voting alts are harmless, however if you have a bunch of them you cant assume you wont get deleted in a batch dupe deletion... its not safe to assume theres checks in place to differentiate between votehacking dupes and experimental/joke dupes.
All this chaos...being what I believe most people call an '06er, I haven't known YTMND as long as others here. Still, I don't think I've ever seen the site as alt-ridden as it is now. Then again, with the new mod system coming up, I can only hope that this is like an invasion of the Putty Patrol before the Power Rangers step in.
So this whore named munter makes this completely pathetic site...pastes Brian Peppers' head into that whale-penis picture. He gets angry at someone who posted in there, I tell him that his site involved minimal work, he gets pissed and downvotes all of mine. Huh. That kind of pisses me off. Too bad it doesn't really matter to anyone but myself.
Yeah, I messaged him explaining how I was just trying to help him out since he's a new guy and all. Gave him some site-making advice, and also told him that, since his account's two and a half weeks old, he hasn't yet developed the testicles to be able to downvote a user's sites and get away with it like that. I try to be a nice guy, but I get pissed at people like that. Funny thing is that within a week he'll probably be gone, and I'll just have another pile of downvotes.
If you mean some sort of automatic revenge downvote tracker, I don't know if it'd be easier to write something in for that or to just have users report excessive revenge downvoting to the mods, then have said mods check vote histories and/or spy and manually send a warning or eventually a vote suspension.
Agreed. Under the new mod system, my case, for example, wouldn't matter, really, unless this guy started revenge downvoting others. Actually, I think he did hit the other guy who commented with one star, but whatever; as I said, chances are he'll be gone sooner or later. Just hoping at least four-fifths of the mods are sane. At least by YTMND's standards of sanity.
Nothing on U&C right now's above a 4, except for one site marked NSFW, currently at a 4.03. Funny how just a week or so ago, when the blue stars were gone, we were complaining about overinflated site ratings. The top of today wouldn't even come close to the bottom then. Long story short, downvoters need a neverending series of nutshots.
Guchehair aside, I seriously think the whole Up and Coming system is flawed and needs a complete overhaul. The sheer size of the site, combined with the omnipresence of dickish downvoters means that one of two normal, everyday downvoters can cripple your site to the point where it'll be off the Newly Created list before the upvoters can undo the damage. I don't have any specific ideas, but there needs to be another tier between Newly Created and Up and Coming, somehow.
Necro, especially with people like JoshCube or TwistedBarney spamming recently created with a zillion of the same site lately things pop off before the cavalry can come to udo mass alt users. the front page "Worthwhile" has been kinda useless lately does anyone else agree? maybe cut that sh*t in half and make 'recently created' 50% larger would be good.
How's this for an idea: Sites remain on Recently Created until they get a minimum of ten votes. You can't make a new site if you have one currently on the list, making it harder to site spam. Make the section expandable so that new sites don't knock the old ones off the list, they just make the list one longer.
It's as if Worthwhile only changes weekly...sometimes monthly. I think the 1-minute refresh was much fairer. All the sites meeting the Worthwhile requirements got views (sometimes 500-1000 a week if lucky) each day from the original cycle. If Worthwhile was like that again...I also believe getting into Up and Coming should be harder. Four 5s and you're in. It's how JoshCube started that STUPID card fad. His alts made it look popular with ease and people jumped on the bandwagon.
it is very important everyone in the world be subject to our ethnocentric point of view. once we allow people from other nations and religions to look and edit the same sites as us the terrorists win. I swear when i saw that site i was waiting for a giant pic of Colbert or a link to the Onion to reassure me it was satire. if it didnt have such political overtones that people would inherently get upset over it would be the perfect target for a terrible internet raid.
"Did you know that faith is a uniquely Christian concept? Add to the explanation of what it means, and how it does not exist on other religions." - take that Muslims and Jews! you dont have faith! you have weird-other-commitment-to-belief-without-evidence-defined-by-some-other-word-because-we-want-this-one!
Anyone pick up the new Hanson album? It's only available in Japan (U.S. version isn't out until May) so I had to import it. I was kind of disappointed. Several songs seem kind of lazy and uninspired, as if they are leftovers from the last album just shoveled in here. However, the last three songs on the album all have Zac on lead vocals and are really good, probably the best on the album.
To all of you looking to pick it up - I highly recommend importing the Japanese release as it has two bonus tracks (including two of the three I just mentioned). The U.S. one looks to be really underwhelming. Funny how they've changed through the years, Taylor isn't even really the lead singer anymore! I give Hanson's "The Walk" (Japan edition) 3 out of 5 stars. Their worst album to date, but still worth a listen, if for no other reason than the last few tracks.
You guys are pathetic, Ive never seen a pop-up ad in 3 years of viewing ytmnd. Especially Not even now!, you guys must really have lame outdated or whack @ss browsers. Srsly, do yourself a favor and download Firefox Mozilla 1.5 or above, do some remedial adblocking and you're all set. Wow, it's amazing you can even use the internet.
the big lying thing about conservapedia is that its not just a 'conservative' wikipedia, it has to be a conservative CHRISTIAN one, and the most imporant tenets of the site revolve around religious issues. i've already found talk pages where they are blasting the sh*t out of each other assuming they'd all agree with each other, just relying on ad hominem attacks. its awesome.
i've noticed a trend on teh internets. liberals seek out easy targets and feast on them in packs, then when an intelligent, true conservative comes in and wipes the floor with them, they all scatter and go look for more easy targets. I don't think libs care about winning arguments (after all, what's winning an argument if truth is subjective?) as much as they just like being cyncical. It makes them feel smart, which is honestly how they view themselves.
I'm a Goldwater Republican, which is like a normal Republican, except not a religious zealot. So that means I have to vote Democrat, in order to protect my right to choose abortion. It's so sad that political divisions have to be completely black-and-white due to that one issue, but as a total f*cktard, I should not breed. Doing my damned duty to society at large includes being able to have access to birth control and abortion on the off chance I might get laid.
that is, everyone thinks they're smart, but are at the same time being considered stupid by someone else. Once you realize the average person is probably not that different from yourself since you yourself are just one person picked randomly from the masses, you're on your way to having a realistic view of yourself and the world around you.
Honda, you have to have a real politically thin skinned if making fun of Conservapedia made you rant like that. I'm rather liberal and two of my most well known sites are base level attacks on well known liberal icons. get a sense of humor about yourself for christsakes, or at least retaliate against an equally decent target like wikichix.org, feminists who decided it was important to make their own site since someone said 'hairdryer' belonged under 'womens studies'
Their self-titled debut Blaque debuted #53 on the Billboard 200 albums chart and went platinum. Two of the singles from the album, "808" written with R. Kelly and "Bring It All to Me" featuring JC Chasez of *NSYNC, reached the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. The album also featured a cover version of "Time after Time" originally recorded by Cyndi Lauper. Their only single to be nominated for a MTV Video Music Award was "I Do" for Best Editing.
Okay, let's try to make up a formula that will express how gay MS is, where x = underaged twink prostitutes with meth habits to feed (never thought anyone would find out about THAT, did you?!?), y = time Sitsu has spent driving around Canada ISO x, and the limit of his gayness is approaching infinity.
While we're expressing our most passionate opinions... Anyone who has never heard of The Guardian Legend should be slapped. Anyone who hates The Guardian Legend should be shot. Federal law should require people to learn the trick for collecting multiple Blue/Red Landers in a row in Zanac before calling themselves a "l33t shmupz0r" or "master of all gaming" or something of that sort. and I like red hair as much as (maybe more than) boobs.
"I did not blow Scott Stapp, I just stole his cocaine when he was trying to take his
pants off." - well he told me exactly where the tattoo of Michael Damian was on your ass, and he was right, so there must be something more your'e not telling us. i have no reason not to believe him. he loves Jesus, and lies about blowjobs make baby Jesus cry.
Pardon me for interrupting, but I must say this is the most pointless, idiotic, f*gtastic thing I've ever seen. Everyone in this room should probably suck an udder or something. Cuz seriously, this is no better than a puddle of cow pus. Sitsu gives it to Heather in the ass, and I throw my c*ck into a tank of acid and watch it disintegrate. We got that? Now let's have some world peace and sh*t.
I don't think I can ever be with a man again, since Sitsu's f*ggoty whore ways mean that most men in North America have been forcibly raped by him at knifepoint, and anyone who's been with him gets SuperHerpes, which give you AIDS. I guess I am going to have to be a lesbian from now on thanks to you, you f*cking f*ggot.
Sitsu, so making legitimate wikipedia contributions is "taking this sort of thing way too seriously"? You mean politics, or religion, or encyclopedias, or maybe the "Tex-Mex" article i once edited? Wow, you must have really been raged to have posted my WP contribs which you talked to me about in PM many months ago after googling my name when i raged you before. lol
My brain cannot handle the level of f*ggotry ITT right now. I swear, Sitsu, if you get any gayer you're going to make a black hole of gayness into which all of existence will be sucked, like the odious vaccum of your c*ck-loving mouth. I think you've just changed my opinion on gay marriage. Mighty Mighty Bosstones are godawful. get AIDS.
Proof Sitsu loves men? I once heard him say he regularly jacks it to a picture of ANN COULTER. ANN COULTER. I'll let the record speak for itself here. Jesus CHRIST you fat ugly f*ggot, don't you know she wants your kind sent into camps and reamed to death? Although if all my gay friends had to go in order for you to be finally destroyed, I would give them all up to end your reign of f*ggot terror.
My cat just looked at your ugly picture on your real myspace (I am leet myspace searcher) and coughed up the biggest hairball ever, proof that Sitsu rapes cats. The poor dear has been traumatized for life because it's INSTINCTIVE to fear Sitsu's four inches of fury. Or four inches of FURRY AMIRITE? Sitsu also posts drawings of Catboys to his secret real devArt page. I will find lnx.