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First off, thank you for taking time to explain all of this. I know given the circumstances, it's hard for you to realize my sincerity here; but seriously, thank you.<br /><br />Secondly, I think we're at a point where we can continue discussing this like two civilized human beings without resorting to name calling. We've both done it, and I apologize.<br /><br />I'm sorry if I can't relate to being a YTMND super star and that you're a specific target. I'm sorry if I've fallen into the same category as the other trolls.<br /><br />That said, I can relate to Max. I am a web programmer myself. Dealing with spammers/bots is a tricky business. Without going apeshit crazy with capchas and/or similar technologies, there's very little he can do about them. He probably doesn't want to worry you, as you are a dedicated user, and he may or may not want to come off as incompetent--I'm not saying that he is--not necessarily having a good answer. It's kind of sad, but spammers are a fact of life. <br /><br />I could go on for pages about spammers, but I digress..............

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I suppose all I would have to do is post a picture of the Edmund Fitzgerald, along with the music, and then have Kramer pop up in the picture saying racist stuff and then Obama somewhere in there and then something about Belfour.

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Here's my feedback.<br /><br />Your site is basically a looped YouTube video with different audio, right? You didn't make the video, and you didn't make the audio. I'm cool with that as long as you can make something new with it. For me, this isn't much different than the original video. Yeah, the audio is [i]technically[/i] different, but it doesn't really change the concept. It's still a time-lapse of Noah aging. So this rates about a 2 for me. If you are interested in how I generally vote on sites, have a look at the comment section for [u]rip-nujabes.ytmnd.com[/u].<br /><br />I'm not really a good representative of the average YTMND voter, though, so I'll try to address what others might think of this site. Some will automatically downvote this because the Noah thing is old and we've seen it all before. Some will automatically upvote this because the audio and image make sense together. Some will automatically downvote this because it's not funny to them. Some will automatically upvote this simply because of They Might Be Giants. Some will automatically downvote this because it's "stolen."<br /><br />I'd like to also point out that a site like this would probably have done pretty well back in 2006/2007, what many consider to be the "Glory Days of YTMND." There were a lot of users who were more than happy to give 5's to anything that was halfway entertaining. Not to mention that there was far more traffic back then, meaning that rather than getting a measly 3 votes and 105 views, you'd probably have at least 20 votes and 1,000 views. Times have changed, and this place has become a bit more barren. It's much harder now to have a successful site than it used to be, in my opinion (others would disagree with me on that, though).<br /><br />Anyway, sorry to go on for so long; I get long-winded sometimes. If you ever want more feedback or

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A. If you actually had 20 people (not fucking alts) that were dedicated enough and supportive enough to 5-star all of your sites, good for you. I doubt you'd be able to muster up such a dedicated audience however. If you did, they'd already be active YTMND-ers. I still wouldn't consider that vote abuse. That's one vote per person per site. The way it SHOULD be.<br /><br />B. I don't visit YouTube on a regular basis, but on occasion if there's a site I like, I will "thumbs up" (or whatever the system is, i can't remember). Just because I don't visit YTMND regularly, does that make my vote any less relevant?<br /><br />C. Alt/vote abuse aside, I believe in the YTMND system. I believe that regardless of how many dedicated users you have on your side your site will garner a rating that is appropriate. You may not like the rating you get, but that's just how life is. Deal with it. Learn from your mistakes and improve over time.<br /><br />D. This really isn't about me or my wife, but what she chooses to do with her account is her business. I'm aware of the apparent bias she displays towards my sites. I try not to share my sites with her without first letting the site take its natural course in RC. Regardless, she is supportive of all my efforts nonetheless and I couldn't ask for anything less.

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wow. look at all the gay up in here.... this is the most glaring example of retardation and circle jerking. well, back to see if there's anything funny today.

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If it weren't for hyperspeed.ytmnd.com and keyspace.ytmnd.com getting such phenomenally high scores, I'd completely agree with you. However, these two sites choke up just as much if not more than your site here, but they managed to sit on Top Rated all week. Why is this? I don't know exactly, but I do think success here at YTMND has a lot to do with chance, and there are two things that make your odds worse. The first is that it's 2010, Year of the Downvoter. The second is that you make art sites, which are not well received by many members of the community (they think this place should be all about humor). This is my theory, anyway.

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Yeah, he understands all of that. The problem is that there seem to be a lot of folks who don't, so he felt it necessary to spell out exactly what "Conan" means. Unfortunately, the masses don't care.<br /><br />The only retards here are the voters.

AND THE NEWS COMMENT PAGE IS REALLY FUNNY<br /><br />I was going to count but i'm willing to bet only around 20 ytmnders control the tides nowadays. And i'd say out of those 20, maybe 7 are legitimate posters with good taste.<br /><br />OH I REMEMBER WHAT I WAS GOING TO SAY NOW<br /><br />[i]GONNA GO BACK IN TIME FOR THIS STORY[/i]<br /><br />I deleted my votes a few years back, might be 2 or 3 now i'm not sure, anyway I deleted all my votes because I knew my personal tastes in sites was pretty uhh how do you put it, I won't say bad because i'm not going to jump right on and insult myself here but lets just say there were some noise and troll sites that I enjoyed, and I only accumulated like 500 votes within 4 years anyway and I was just 5 gray star voting anyway so<br /><br />OKAY FUCK THAT STORY<br /><br />ummmmmmmmmmmm<br /><br />yeah<br /><br />just, just keep on making sites don't worry about anything the site will turn out just fine I promise

Okay, at the risk of sounding like I'm complaining, I honestly was not expecting very much, but I'm still curious about this. My latest site got a 4.57 and only 200 votes. How did that happen? 300 used to be the amount that kicked you off Up and Coming, and if you managed to get in Top Rated too you could probably get over 1,000, but that was way back when, I know. Users have left, but for some reason there's still discussion going on in the news. So I figured I'd ask you guys what you think.<br /><br />Suddenly we have tons of users and now we seem to have a max of 200 browsing the front page every week. What happened here? Is this Hill Valley or is it Hell? What do you think caused all the users to leave? How do you think we can bring back a large userbase?

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there is nothing in here about me because all of my info is already public. shameless self promotion www.johnshaw.org

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Is there like some sort of forum where you all go and talk amongst yourselves? Totally feeling left-out.

That sign says "Applesauce". No, no, no, I'm kidding. It says "Applause". Ray, do me a favor. Can you flick that once? Alright now remember you're all a big part of the show so the better you are the better Larry is. Alright, there we go. This is exciting, isn't it?

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i just started reading this retarded thread about "trolls" and i probably won't finish.<br /><br />but hear this. "troll" is one of the most useless, childish, close minded terms i have ever heard. fucking "trolls." there are no real trolls active on ytmnd. superdreamkilla, in a minor way. problem solved.<br /><br />[i]real[/i] "trolls" are not low-norms who argue and harass each other on comment pages and vote 1 on each others sites. no matter what encyclopedia dramatica tells you. real troll faggotry crosses mediums. that means their actions have consequences beyond someone getting pissed sitting at their computer. there are plenty of examples you can google if want to.<br /><br />take max, the biggest troll of all. dustin diamond sued him. that means max had to actaully got to court. like, outside his house. people get furious with max and his website and threaten him. so what does he do? he posts phone messages on his website so people can laugh and edit them. max is a troll and an awesome one. no one on this list is a troll.<br /><br />the term "troll" is beyond gay. i think everyone needs to just figure out how to deal with the most petty, i repeat *the most petty* forms of harassment. it's just text people. text. there are insults in text form and comment threads like this get created and you all feel bad. fucking retards.

rodheh. you suck. all you people suck.<br /><br />joey, btape isnt a mod. there hasn't been an admin page since 2.0 launched hence he has had no special mod insight or capabilities.<br /><br />rodheh, you chose btape only on reputation. his a activity dwindled before you even joined. same goes for my join date. i just happened to have communicated, reasonably, believe it or not, with more people here. hence, i have a better understanding of this place as a decrepit social circle. and believe it or not, provoking people in comments and harassing PMs isn't an indication of much of anything beyond how silly someone can get with the internet.<br /><br />getting more in depth with your dumb list, all the users you chose are either your meebo/comment buddies or a few stragglers who post nothing and (as it just so happens) haven't taken the time to call you out and explain how far off you are (heh). yes, we need as a mod:<br /><br />lax83 - a user who has posted the most ear rape sites and exclusively votes of friend-sites or people who 5 him (sorry lax, love your antics but it's true). lets make lax a mod so he can create the sites he regulates while he regulates them.<br /><br />eightbitprodigy - a user who presumably is your buddy. i can't imagine who else would be. jimmm? but yeah, 8bit, a relatively newer user who makes some nice sites sometimes but who cares. he has proven (like nearly everyone else on this list) unreasonable user bias. non mod in my opinion.<br /><br />wisdumcube - a user who rarely visits anymore and only expresses hate and regret for ytmnd. also who gets in more petty fights than i do.<br /><br />kekko - a nice guy. brings a non-american stance. mode? sure. also, he is gay and thinks im hot. sure, sure :) i would love a homosexual mod to scare off all you homophobic retard users who hear FAGGOT.wav and experience their balls crawling up inside themselves with laughter. my vote is for kekko, faggots.<br /><br />

all I have to do is type "y" in my search browser and it's the first thing that comes up. Also, you can just make a tab for it in your own browser. I like how the Spy is kind of an Easter Egg. not everybody knows about it. let's keep it that way so we don't get all the idiots in there going "ASL???" "ANY HAWY GIRLS PRESS#348923"

I think I read most of the comments in this journal post twice. I feel very concerned about the situation that is creating here. I sense so much hate, whether it is staged or not. I don't want to talk about me, but I have to tell you this: I'm quite a sensitive person and I visit this site maybe 20 times a day. I like to see what people share, I like the funny stuff, but when I look harder I read the comments, I see downvotes driven by pure hate, jealousy or even for no reason at all (dare I say "just for fun".) And since the site is up again the negativity is palpable more than ever. I'm even experiencing it firsthand, thanks to a user who doesn't act like his/her blood is flowing to his/her brain. As Max said in a post in 2007 (I'm paraphrasing,) freedom of speech is ok, but when the shit hits the fan you have to spend a lot of time cleaning the fan. And a soapy sponge is not enough.<br />I like to imagine this site as a place where you have fun, reflect and discuss about what people feel important to share. Do we really have to fight against each other, for things which don't even concern our role in this community? Do we have to scream and offend, saying the obvious most of the time? Do we have to judge, condemn and bash just because we think we have a right to say whatever we want?<br />I live in a place where school books used to be regulated by the "government" and still there's a lot to complain about openness. Stephen Colbert often jokingly says "Freedom isn't free." Maybe he's right, if you think about it. We have been given a chance to express ourselves, by a sole person. Let's not spoil this opportunity, we cannot take anything for granted. For the sake of this community, behave yourself. All of us. Me too.

The only thing that makes sense is high quality streamed videos in HTML 5 or flash. I don't know enough about media platforms/plug-ins to get specific though. We can solve the dilemma of losing some essential gif qualities by integrating a looping feature (where the creator can set if a video loops or not).<br /><br />I like the gif too but honestly no one outside of ytmnd cares about it. People kind of view it as amateurish because it denotes the geocities era of the internet, so it makes a bad first impression. The gif just hasn't quite attained the cult nostalgic status that 8-bit graphics/chip tunes have, unfortunately. <br /><br />Like I said, ytmnd might lose its identity, but that identity doesn't really sell anymore. YTMND became popular because it filled a vacuum that was there until everyone figured out that youtube existed, not because it prided itself on forcing creativity through size/color limitations (as noble the concept may be).<br /><br />Of course, ytmnd shouldn't get rid of the gif completely, because you really can't, unless you want to ripe out the foundation of this website as well as all its content. Mainly I just think it should be tucked away in its own little area, where it is not the sole attraction.

there should be a section on the new front page where users can post pictures of themselves. like, it could be called "Pick List" and we could like, post pics from facebook or just mirror pics or like pics of whatever. i was edward cullen for halloween, and i've been dieing to get my costume pics onto ytmnd. i looked really good. i had sex that night. with a big fat pirate in the bathroom at a party. that is not a lie.<br /><br />plus, i really want to see all kinds of real life user related stuff, like what cereal max ate for breakfast or what toilet paper brand feels the best on fourest's butt. like, if i could see a fourest-uploaded pic taken from the view of him sitting on the toilet, and you can see the opened Charmin Ultra Soft pack sitting next to the tub and like fourest's leg is blurry in the bottom corner of he pic, haha! that would be awesome.<br /><br />if you could upload .txt files or microsoft word files, that would be cool. i wanna read poetry, short stories, emails, journal entries, whatever. if a user made it, i wanna see it.<br /><br />everything i said is a lie. not the fat pirate part, unfortunately. i was fingering her butt and eating her out. i'm still waiting for my lips to break out and the roof of my mouth to turn to liquid.

you have good points there. yes, i've been to funny or die. it's great, but the one thing that i always liked about ytmnd is that its more user oriented. all the garbage has always been part of the fun for me, but yeah, it certainly keeps away lots of users.<br /><br />i guess i [i]would[/i] like to see this place grow up and become more like FoD or other places like that. that's what will save it.<br /><br />i guess i'm agreeing with you. not that i was ever totally against you on the subject. 100% of my responses to you here were for the sole purpose of being a wiseass and making you respond. especially my above comment about fascism.<br /><br />so yes, i would like a more rigid front page format, but i also wouldn't want to totally loose the internet-garbage aspect all together.

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By "both these sites," you mean this abbreviated clip, and the one on break.com from which someone literally stole and made a YTMND without changing or creating anything new.<br /><br />I understand that this isn't really all that funny. In fact, it's pretty cold hearted, since it's just some kid crashing into a pole. This is more or less a contrast to my other site, [site haaawbog:site], where there is a happy ending (the child is OK).<br /><br />The moral of the story is, this site and my other one are just minimalist examples of actually doing something new, and not just regurgitating something from somewhere else. If I wanted to watch someone get hurt, I'd go to cracked. I come to YTMND see art and creativity in its crudest albeit often humorous forms.

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Word is, there haven't been any good sites here lately.<br />Truth is, they're all flying under the radar because of downvoters.<br /><br /><br />I hate to think of how much work you put into this.

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THIS GOES OUT TO REALICIDE, THEE MOST INFLUENTIAL PUNK BAND TO EVER COME ACROSS IN A LIFE TIME. I ATTENDED ALL THOSE PHILLY SHOWS AND HANGED OUT WITH THE BAND AFTERWORDS AND PARTIED WITH MY FRIENDS, THAT WAS A STRONG PART IN MY YOUTH. FOR THEM TO QUIT IS LIKE MY YOUTH HAS DIED. REALICIDE EFFECT EVERYTHING HOW I LOOK AT MUSIC AND LIFE ITSELF. THERE WILL HARDLY EVER BE A BAND AGAIN AS POWERFUL AS REALICIDE. IT WAS THE COMMUNE WITH FRIENDS AND MUSIC, AND TO BASH THE ONES WHO TRIED TO STOP IT AND WAS A SCARED OF IT. IT WAS A REVOLUTION IN SENSE, PEOPLE TOGETHER AND NOT CONSUMED. THERE I MAKE THIS YTMND BRIEFLY FOR THE DEPART OF REALICIDE, TRYING TO SURVIVE IN A ROBOT WORLD. I MISS YOU ROBERT, YOU CHANGED HOW THE WAY WE THINK AND ACT. R.I.P

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your site to me simply asserts that there are jewish equivalents of nazis and klansmen. Which may be true. But that is different from all jews being evil.

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i'm going to post my above post right here, in case people are only scrolling to the bottom of this page to read the newest comment:<br /><br />HAHAHAHAHA mik3m you fuckin faggot. you are the king og too-cool-for-ytmnd-school fake "i dont care" statements. you told me in a PM that you just post shit here and if there a feature that could make all your sites "private" then you would make it so no one can see your sites.<br /><br />right, which is why you loaded all your ytmnd rap songs onto a torrent then made a site about it here.

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HAHAHAHAHA mik3m you fuckin faggot. you are the king og too-cool-for-ytmnd-school fake "i dont care" statements. you told me in a PM that you just post shit here and if there a feature that could make all your sites "private" then you would make it so no one can see your sites.<br /><br />right, which is why you loaded all your ytmnd rap songs onto a torrent then made a site about it here.

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I do agree. He or whoever is responsible for your banning/unbanning from doing various things should have the courage as well as the basic courtesy to tell you why they are punishing you for whatever. I remember this one website by the name of FSTDT (which has become real bitchy lately) at least made some attempt to provide reason and state their objections to things you might have said. (well, maybe not all the mods there)<br /><br />Whoever did what they did to you at YTMND acted in a cowardly manner when they would not even state their problems with you.

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actually Uncirk, that seems to be true for fourest but not quite so for fearcondom.<br /><br />fear often makes sites that fall flat but occasionally makes a site that is very well received. on a loose timeline, they seem to have put out a relatively equal amount of "worthy" sites and "unworthy" sites. at least when it comes to the ratio of actual humor/bad jokes internet people like.<br /><br />the difference is (i can only gather from what many have explained to me, even his closest ytmnd buddies) that fourest seems to promote his work with almost as much passion as he puts into it. i've heard stories of massive msn/aim friends lists, mass emails, who knows - reddit/digg type websites? considering his "karma" site got onto Attack of the Show with relatively low fourest rating/views, i can only assume he has made some strong internet connections from being e-famous. he must be in the top 5 e-famous ytmnders. i did an experiment where i took a few days to post various ytmnd links in the appropriate AotS forums, and they all got deleted and replaced with "please post only video" or something. so, fourest getting onto attack of the show reeks of an in connect, whether his own or someone who just likes his work.<br /><br />fourest whoring out his crap has been one the main things people here have criticized him for. including me. i love poking fun at fourest! especially when i put some actual effort into a fourest-headpaste parody site. but really, if anything i admire his ability to successfully get his work around. it's not cheating, it's not cheap, it's not violating some "too cool for ytmnd school" mentality suggesting that everyone needs to toss their sites out there and rely only on community voting. one of the most important things for any kind of artist to figure out is how to raise awareness of their work and maximize exposure. <br /><br />you wouldn't scoff at your favorite tv show bec

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[u]More than you ever, [i]ever[/i] wanted to know:[/u]<br /><br />I was really teetering between a 3 and a 4, which is something I do a lot. If you look at [user Lastimero:votes] where the line between the two are, you'll see that this is actually in the top third of all the sites I've voted on, so that's not too bad at all.<br /><br />As for how I generally vote, I'm part of what seems to be a small minority of users who don't vote based on just the content of a site. I look at the creativity of the idea presented, the effort put into it, and how much different from its source material a site's content becomes by moving to the YTMND format. Originality is highly valued for me, as are good loops. I also make a point of not "upvoting" or "downvoting," which to me means voting solely to change the total score to one's liking (if I "upvoted," you'd get a 5). I could actually go on--I have a few exceptions to these guidelines--but I think you get the picture.<br /><br />In your case, you found a couple of nice images online, did a little editing, and put it to some nice music. For me, this typically falls in the 3 range unless there's a particularly clever concept at work. What could possibly bring your site to a 4 is the cohesiveness of the concept and the subtlety of the editing. To be sure, the aesthetic is appealing to me, but if I voted solely on that, I'd be giving 5's to all kinds of stuff that don't deserve it. Kind of like the thousands of users who voted 5 on anything with Daft Punk back in the day, even if it was paired to some completely irrelevant cat gif found somewhere on the internet.<br /><br />I hope I'm not coming across all high and mighty here (like Umfuld, perhaps). I know that I'm still just one vote in a sea of stars (especially since I don't believe in using alts). And in the end, stars are really just

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Fair enough:<br /><br />Eric PrairieDog Read this:<br />October 12 at 11:45am Friends Only · Comment · LikeUnlike · View Feedback (11)Hide Feedback (11)<br /><br /> *<br /> *<br /> *<br /> o<br /> Eric PrairieDog<br /> For reasons I can't disclose, I am leaving YTMND for the time being.<br /><br /> tell superdreamkilla to stop spamming under Umfeld and ThePostMasterGeneral, and that i no longer support it. i won't say i've been innocent (because i gave him the content... for his spamming) but 99% of the spam attributed to me since September 1st has been superdreamkilla. the spamming is getting ridiculous. it's not something i want to have a part in anymore. also, for days, superdreamkilla was trying to get me to repost that Umfuld birthday house site, but I wouldn't, so he finally did it himself at the last minute under his Umfeld account. all i did yesterday was go to class and drink a lot of malt liquor. and i'm bored of YTMND and no one wants me here anyway, so there's only one real solution, isn't there? i quit<br /><br /> peace -lurgSee More<br /> October 12 at 11:45am · LikeUnlike · 1 personLoading...<br /> o<br /> Eric PrairieDog Yeah, I'm a genius. Now, to get rid of superdreamkilla.<br /> October 12 at 11:51am · LikeUnlike · 1 personLoading...<br /> o<br /> Karl Schipul I think you take some things too seriously<br /> October 12 at 12:09pm · LikeUnlike · 1 personLoading...<br /> o<br /> Aaron Harrison poland<br /> October 12 at 12:21pm · LikeUnlike · 1 personLoading...<br /> o<br /> Gaz MayorsOffice Connolly internet is serious business<br /> October 12 at 12:23pm · LikeUnlike · 1 personLoading...<br /> o<br /> Lacr

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I just finished watching roughly 80% of your sites. I did this because a) I like this site and wanted to see if you had more like it, and b) I've seen comments of yours that seem to indicate that you are a misunderstood user and I was curious why.<br /><br />Regarding (a), I didn't find any site I liked nearly as much as this one, at least not in the same way. The ones I liked most from what I saw were the sites involving rod and the sites with static landscape-y pictures with mood music. All my votes pretty much landed in the 1-3 range.<br /><br />Regarding (b), if it's not already clear, I don't get your work. Is there any definition to it? Or is it just art being art? Because if it's just art being art, then I don't understand any of your objection to the artfag contest (which I loved, by the way).<br /><br />I don't know why I'm going on like this. Maybe because I want to somehow have something to show for spending all that time viewing sites I didn't really like. Maybe because it's late. I don't know. I should just end this now awkwardly.