carol of the bells
posted by max on December 25, 2006 at 12:00:01 AM
seasons greetings pals
As I sit here just finishing my christmas eve dinner of spare ribs and chow mein, I felt the need to give you all a little update of what's been going on at YTMND headquarters.
It's been a long year, and I don't think I've accomplished as much as I would have liked. I hope to change that this year. The last few months have consumed me in a duty I am not only not very good at, but something that causes me to die a little each time I have to deal with it: advertising.
As the site grows in size and cost, advertising becomes more and more of a requirement in order to keep enough money coming in to pay the bills. I've been trying to manage this all on my own and honestly not doing very well, I should stick to programming.
Luckily, I signed up with Federated Media who will be representing all of YTMND's ad space. This means in the coming months as I slowly leave more and more up to them, I can get back to coding. I know the site is riddled with bugs, broken features and horrible abusive users.
I aim to change that, and my first order of business is to launch a new moderation setup which includes a couple hundred new moderaters. I will go into this more in a future post, so if you send me a private message asking me to be a moderator, I'm going to delete you.
Anyway, that's all I have to say for the time being. Stay safe this xmas/new years. I'll be back in the new year to make a fresh start of YTMND.
As I sit here just finishing my christmas eve dinner of spare ribs and chow mein, I felt the need to give you all a little update of what's been going on at YTMND headquarters.
It's been a long year, and I don't think I've accomplished as much as I would have liked. I hope to change that this year. The last few months have consumed me in a duty I am not only not very good at, but something that causes me to die a little each time I have to deal with it: advertising.
As the site grows in size and cost, advertising becomes more and more of a requirement in order to keep enough money coming in to pay the bills. I've been trying to manage this all on my own and honestly not doing very well, I should stick to programming.
Luckily, I signed up with Federated Media who will be representing all of YTMND's ad space. This means in the coming months as I slowly leave more and more up to them, I can get back to coding. I know the site is riddled with bugs, broken features and horrible abusive users.
I aim to change that, and my first order of business is to launch a new moderation setup which includes a couple hundred new moderaters. I will go into this more in a future post, so if you send me a private message asking me to be a moderator, I'm going to delete you.
Anyway, that's all I have to say for the time being. Stay safe this xmas/new years. I'll be back in the new year to make a fresh start of YTMND.
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Before you start freaking out, here's my idea:
(This one's directed pretty much towards the staff, but I'm posting it anyway)
PLEASE NOTE:
I will NOT be getting rid of the forums. They will be migrated should we choose to do this. Speaking of the forums, my vBulletin license expired quite some time ago, so no upgrade. Sorry 'bout that. I'm going to try and get the patch for the security hole that allows the spambots to spam up the place. Try and deal with it for a little while longer.
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Reading max's news post and all of these people proclaiming that 2007 will be a golden year for this site and all its problems will be fixed and we will be mentioned up there with youtube and perezhilton.com really need to take a step back and evaluate where we really are. I mean, does this site even deserve more views? Are we doing enough? Well, I don't think so. I think we all know how to fix it. Needs more giraffes.
these guys are all alt accounts http://ytmnd.com/users/direstars/votes
http://ytmnd.com/users/splinterdips/votes
http://ytmnd.com/users/poofs/votes http://ytmnd.com/users/samisuream/votes
http://ytmnd.com/users/hawkboyz/votes http://ytmnd.com/users/venompoke/votes
http://ytmnd.com/users/jasper439/votes of this guy: http://ytmnd.com/users/catwatch/ He has at least 14 more of them that I didn't see.
Dear Max, since you been ignoring my emails like a f*cking jackass i'd like to tell you something; some of these downvoters are getting worse by the day and i am tired of flavor-flav leaving sh*t like this in peoples ytmnd's "http://www.yourfilehost.com/media.php?cat=video&file=dear_penis.wmv, YEAH BOYEE!!!" hes worse then dr-l337 when he first appeared on ytmnd. it would be nice to have some of these downvoters and some of these un-honest ytmnd'ers on here removed and fix errors cuz no one can live with
Dear Max, since you been ignoring my emails like a f*cking jackass i'd like to tell
you something; some of these downvoters are getting worse by the day and i am tired
of flavor-flav leaving sh*t like this in peoples ytmnd's
"http://www.yourfilehost.com/media.php?cat=video&file=dear_penis.wmv, YEAH BOYEE!!!"
hes worse then dr-l337 when he first appeared on ytmnd. it would be nice to have some
of these downvoters and some of these un-honest ytmnd'ers on here removed and fix
errors cuz no one can live with
Max, want some PI? 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592307816406286208998628034825342117067982148086513282306647093844609550582231725359408128481117450284102701938521105559644622948954930381964428810975665933446128475648233786783165271201909145648566923460348610454326648213393607260249141273724587006606315588174881520920962829254091715364367892590360011330530548820466521384146951941511609
So... tonight I was out and I didn't even feel like staying because my favorite bar has been hijacked by nerdboys and trollgirls and I tells ya I feel like one of the billy goats gruff the way they keep taking over the dance floor with their sobriety and their "we don't need alcohol to have fun" bullcrap.
But then I had five Washington Apples and the bar owner gave me a tub of homemade New Year's hummus and I felt a little better, but I couldn't help wondering, did he think I was mad last night when I left early? Ever since that overdose my stomach is really sensitive and the thought of repetitive motion made me queasy.
So now I'm all anxious... it's been like this for months. I can't have a functional life because every night I'm waiting for that phone call, that text message that means bad, wrong things will happen. And sometimes I hate myself for it. And sometimes I wonder if he ever broke up with that girl he started seeing a few months ago... but it's been a year and a half with me, doesn't that mean something? And I can't talk to anyone about it because it's supposed to be some stupid secret.
It's not like I'm a bad person, I'm just easily tempted. And I thought, you know, new year, turn over a new leaf, fish or cut bait but there aren't any other alternatives, it's either take sh*t from an uncaring *ssh*le or nothing, just more and more jerks trying to hit on me... and now that the pretty girls aren't coming to the bar anymore it means more creeps for me, hoo f*cking ray.
From: sexymofo (block sender) 2006-09-04 16:30:58 I find it hilarious that the YTMND community has failed to identify me after so many clues (and one very large substantial clue taking the form of an entire site) that I conveniantly left lying around almost hap-hazardly.
I am enjoying this mistaken identity confusion and I look forward to seeing what kinds of conclusions this little community is going to conjure up.
It is funny and ironic how the internet can provide you with so much information, yet mistake you for someone on the other side of an entire continent.
Unlike so many people here I am already 3 steps ahead, planning before planning. The people here, especially the close-minded individuals who refuse to believe I am anyone other than this "Blake" fellow, have inadvertently played themselves right into my hands where I want them.
I wouldn't be shocked if Heather was Lohan. After all Heather Chandler was one of the Heathers and the Heathers director's brother directed Mean Girls and Lohan was in Mean Girls and I don't get much sleep so everything I say will be in one long incredibly unbroken sentence moving from topic to topic and stuff like that and I desperately need to get layed et cetera. also c*cks.
The Clock Tower is a turret clock structure at the north-eastern end of the Houses of Parliament building in Westminster, London. It is popularly known as Big Ben, but this name actually belongs to the clock's main bell. It was raised as a part of Charles Barry's design for a new palace, after the old one was destroyed by fire. The tower is designed in the Victorian Gothic style, and is 96.3 metres (316 feet) high.
the following need to be banned = JoshCube and all his alts (f*g), TheManWithNoFace (for poorly attempting to be like sexymofo), Qnslaught (f*g), Dr-L337 (Dr-L337), and HarrisonGantz (f*g). also, we need to limit voting to those who have made YTMNDs so alts made for the purpose of downvoting cannot vote.
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http://theyjustfadeaway.ytmnd.com/ - raises very good points about what the new layout has done to old sites. one thing i still dearly dearly dearly miss from the old layout is clicking 'top rated' on the front page and seeing every site there by rating as far as i wanted to go... now anyone has to wade through the digest, and most people simply dont. its been a failure thus far to be honest. for example i have a 4.58 site that got less than 50 views yesterday, as opposed to in the past having 4.15's That over time got 30,000 views by people easily navigating through the front page 'top rated' search mode.