Tomorrow Untrodden
posted by max on November 05, 2010 at 01:26:07 AM
Greetings.
I've taken the next few weeks off from work to have another YTMND development drive. This will include much-needed maintenance, bug fixes and a few new features. In addition to this, I've been working with Big Spaceship over the last month working on a new design, which I'll be implementing as well. If I have the remaining time, I'll be fixing up the admin panels and possibly adding some new mods.
So this is your chance to complain about anything (aside from the design) that's been bugging you recently or stuff you've been dying for.
I'll keep you guys updated over the next few weeks in between eating handfuls of adderall. Please provide useful feedback and bug reports. While I'm working on the new codebase, I'm going to be moderating with an iron fist. There will be zero tolerance for spamming/trolling/etc, so unless you want all your accounts deleted and to be IP banned at our routers, please try and behave for once.
Please do not bother me about being a moderator, when the time comes I'll make a news post about it.
I've taken the next few weeks off from work to have another YTMND development drive. This will include much-needed maintenance, bug fixes and a few new features. In addition to this, I've been working with Big Spaceship over the last month working on a new design, which I'll be implementing as well. If I have the remaining time, I'll be fixing up the admin panels and possibly adding some new mods.
So this is your chance to complain about anything (aside from the design) that's been bugging you recently or stuff you've been dying for.
I'll keep you guys updated over the next few weeks in between eating handfuls of adderall. Please provide useful feedback and bug reports. While I'm working on the new codebase, I'm going to be moderating with an iron fist. There will be zero tolerance for spamming/trolling/etc, so unless you want all your accounts deleted and to be IP banned at our routers, please try and behave for once.
Please do not bother me about being a moderator, when the time comes I'll make a news post about it.
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cmon folks, i've only been here 3 years and i come back every day. Maybe in 7 more years i'll be bitter because someone isn't using their free time to take their project to where I want it. A Louis Vuitton background doesn't stop me from making a site to the best of my ability (and that's relative to sobriety) I don't appreciate earrape, but it happens so does spam and trolls(it's the internet!) Max asking for bug reports and feature recommendations doesn't warrant an onslaught of crap thrown. You say "fuck yo couch" and I say get outta my house....
I "fell for the trap" on 1/4/2008 and thought it was another in 2009 with 2.0 launch. I waited days with hope until that news post.
We all have a difference in opinion on what's funny, witty or relevant. I've got what....34 sites and only 2 over 1k views, less than half have 3+ stars....someone said earlier that we have lots of talent here, and i agree. But not everyone has those skills, are they(I) now a part of what's killing the site? Let's just say thanks max for trying, i'll see what it's like tomorrow.
No go make something funny.
Although I am sad, I am more than willing to share her with the Army. I told her more than once that I be more than accepting if she makes the Army a career. I will highly recommend to her that she stay in the Army until they no longer wanted her. Then I can have her all to myself.
Well, see ya’ later!
Mood: Sad
Music: “Desert Rose” by Sting
Book: (None)
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?
I work 60 hours a week, which is why I don't come here as much and don't make a lot of sites.
I don't think we can bring back a larger userbase. YTMND isn't getting the publicity like it did in 2005 and 2006. It's a limiting medium and what was a novelty five years ago is now behind the times.
Most of you blame the decline to the quality of the sites. That's true. That's true when the sites are [b]not[/b] the reflection of what the users feel about a show, a celebrity, a cartoon. I've always said that noise sites are annoying to the point of scaring everyone. That's trolling. I know that, because this very same reason pushed me away from this site in 2006. YES! the same year I officially joined this site! I was much more happy when dickcream was online, because that was stuff worth watching. You also complain about the downvoting practice, which is unfair to say at least. That's trolling. You also complain about stupid fads (including the racist ones.) That becomes trolling when the entire platform becomes full of them and practically useless. That rings a bell, doesn't it?
I won't express my personal reasons about the decline of this website. As you can see I just made a mostly objective list of some things that are happening on this site. If you guys are really good at looking for stuff, you maybe will find a comment I made some time ago about how this site is unmoderated: you do the math. But there's something I still need to say: blaming it on a programmer seems a little convenient to me. You can complain about a centralized management of this site, but unless you don't know how much work and hours and money you have to spend in front of a computer just to make a bunch of fat asses satisfied, you shouldn't even mention who codes this website.
You also know that by voting you have a responsibility to be reasonable and make this website healthy. I wonder why almost nobody pointed it out!
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.
OH I REMEMBER WHAT I WAS GOING TO SAY NOW
[i]GONNA GO BACK IN TIME FOR THIS STORY[/i]
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
OKAY FUCK THAT STORY
ummmmmmmmmmmm
yeah
just, just keep on making sites don't worry about anything the site will turn out just fine I promise
I know everyone wants the new design, but my priority is fixing bugs, getting the admin panel back up fully, and finishing off the unfinished features. I want the next release of YTMND to be a lot more stable than 2.0.
Someone is still suggesting or wishing some particular users as mods. I believe that moderators don't actually have an opinion on what they're moderating, they just follow a specific set of rules, so that they can reduce any misunderstanding. For example: a mod has to remove any picture containing people with a specific eye color.
Finally, I believe YTMND is less than a social network and more of a showcase. Imagine a big empty stage, open to everyone. There are enough microphones for anybody and you can:
A) jump on stage and make the sound you want contributing to a supposed "wall of sound";
B) make a mess.
It's all about what choice you believe you're making.
Also, I have to expand the (hidden) comment "A" that is apparently the last, in order to see any reply to "A" and the other (real) last comment "B" that is not a reply to "A".
... I think I just made a bug report!
Thanks for creating my favorite website, max. Happy New Year.
I've taken the next few weeks off from work to have another YTMND development drive. This will include much-needed maintenance, bug fixes and a few new features. In addition to this, I've been working with Big Spaceship over the last month working on a new design, which I'll be implementing as well. If I have the remaining time, I'll be fixing up the admin panels and possibly adding some new mods.
So this is your chance to complain about anything (aside from the design) that's been bugging you recently or stuff you've been dying for.
I'll keep you guys updated over the next few weeks in between eating handfuls of adderall. Please provide useful feedback and bug reports. While I'm working on the new codebase, I'm going to be moderating with an iron fist. There will be zero tolerance for spamming/trolling/etc, so unless you want all your accounts deleted and to be IP banned at our routers, please try and behave for once.
Please do not bother me about being a moderator, when the time comes I'll make a news post about it.
Don't change a damn thing. Its too fucking funny to watch everyone spaz over a silly internet joke site. OMG you voted 5 on that crap site? OMG you have alt accounts? OMG, you're a troll! OMG! OMG! OMG! I'm going to throw a motherfucking TANTRUM AND DOWNVOTE!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! OMG I'm going to do that with all 50 alt accounts and PM all my friends to do the same. OMG why won't this user just quit and leave? OMG!!!!!
Without that sort of drama I'd have to do something more constructive with my life, like masturbate or get a job.
-GaryGnu
"Mom! Billy is touching me!"
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"But mom, Suzy touched me first!"
[i]Mom ignores the childish argument[/i]
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[i]the children continue their childish argument until mom finally comes in and tells them she bought them both new bicycles (the bikes are kinda shitty though)[/i]
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[i]the kids are distracted by their new bikes for a short while, and suggest to their mom gifts she can get them that might be better next time[/i]
"Mom, billy tried to break my bike"
etc.
etc.
[site maxdestroysytmnd:site]
Going back a couple weeks, here's another comment page with massive amounts of cheating:
http://ytmnd.com/sites/953046/profile
Umfuld is simply spewing out his hate for me, calling for a ban or a deletion. And his excuse is because I'm not voting the way he thinks I should on specific sites. He can call it trolling if he wants, but there is such a thing as freedom, so he doesn't really have a case. And he complains when I bring his name up...well, you've banned him from commenting once before, so you probably know that he does this type of thing all the time too - bringing up people he hates in conversations. Me, lacrossestar83, DarthWang, wisdumcube (2008-2009 era), etc.
Want to fix YTMND? Get rid of the alts, get a new contest started, and rejuvenate your razor with your Razor Gator.
Thank god, I possessed the restraint to not take shots at any of the 10 remaining active users, or provide condescending advice that was poorly worded and/or too abstract to understand that would prove to be embarrassing for my self-image!
...Oh wait, fuck.
Well, I'll just pretend that everything in the news except the comment that was rated +13 doesn't exist.
...Oh man, one of those comments is rated as low as uncircumcised's!?
What is it about ytmnd that brings out the crazy? Well, I guess it being a dumping ground of the worst behavior on the internet produces a sort of psychosis in certain people that causes the observer's mind to mentally wretch in pure terror at the absurdity of the world that its users have created, which produces the delusion that it might be a good idea to get involved (even ironically) and that everything you say isn't totally ridiculous given the full context of the situation.
I... need to go.
I've taken the next few weeks off from work to have another YTMND development drive. This will include much-needed maintenance, bug fixes and a few new features. In addition to this, I've been working with Big Spaceship over the last month working on a new design, which I'll be implementing as well. If I have the remaining time, I'll be fixing up the admin panels and possibly adding some new mods.
So this is your chance to complain about anything (aside from the design) that's been bugging you recently or stuff you've been dying for.
I'll keep you guys updated over the next few weeks in between eating handfuls of adderall. Please provide useful feedback and bug reports. While I'm working on the new codebase, I'm going to be moderating with an iron fist. There will be zero tolerance for spamming/trolling/etc, so unless you want all your accounts deleted and to be IP banned at our routers, please try and behave for once.
Please do not bother me about being a moderator, when the time comes I'll make a news post about it.
nobody gives a shit about what you have to say. You post your inane shit EVERYWHERE and half of the comments on this news post are your FUCKING IDIOTIC RAMBLINGS AND SHITTY SITE LINKS.
Just shut the fuck up already. SHUT UP! Take a look at the ratings on your shitty comments. Nobody wants to read your horseshit.
SHUT THE FUCK UP. Just SHUT UP. SHUT. UP.
max had the right idea when he comment banned you, and it obviously should have been a permanent thing. You contribute nothing to this site. You are probably YTMND's most pathetic, worthless user. And THAT is really saying something.
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Cocks?
in before uncirc doesn't do it because he knows everyone will make fun of his voice, gr33nscr33n doesnt do it because pde10 is there, umfuld would never let his voice be heard in fear of someone recording it, lacrossestar spamming it with noise, rodheh eating mexican food, comradvolk playing music, me probably talking about something gay like final fantasy, max not being there, steakman insulting everyone, and special guest appearance HALO1GAMER says some few words and no one remembers who he is but me so they just kick him out of the chat
and don't tell me to go to the fucking ytmnd vent, it's the same people that were in there when it was first created talking about the same old shit, they don't even have anything to do with ytmnd they are just a group of internet addicts talking about 4chan and porn
i mean shit the comment chains we get now are novel length, might as well give a place for people to just make "THIS THREAD IS ABOUT HOW UMFULD SUCKS DICK" so they can complain without shitting up comment pages
You are one of those guys that is kinda smart, but absolutely needs someone to whip them every single day to produce anything...ever.
All your whining about leg cramps and pills is just baby talk too, get some god damn exercise! You are just making excuses for yourself.
PS, if you ever wonder why so many bitching sessions occur on this site, it is because of you. Your general neglect as regards what, for some, is a social and creative outlet, has disenfranchised many worthy contributors, and turned many others into whining, pedantic, knee biters.
Max, it is all your fault, and you suck because of that. Do something about your extremely misleading "latest" post, you lazy cunt!