Inactive Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka - Deadbeat (emphasis on "Dead") founder of Something Awful, forced out of his own community, on his second divorce, stuck his dick in crazy, "Birth Giver"

[The golden neckbeard]

I vaguely remember that. I do remember chargebacks being basically memory holed and a ton of cope around the issue. I think the jannies said that chargebacks were unfair because technically you got what you paid for, a membership, but you broke the TOS.

The TOS literally stipulated you could be banned at a whim so I dont know who's in the wrong

I got banned for umusing the pig thread tag once not realizing only rich could use it.


I also was abruptly banned for saying the nigger like 6 years after i said it

 

[murdered meat bag]

I vaguely remember that. I do remember chargebacks being basically memory holed and a ton of cope around the issue. I think the jannies said that chargebacks were unfair because technically you got what you paid for, a membership, but you broke the TOS.

The TOS literally stipulated you could be banned at a whim so I dont know who's in the wrong

I remember the kid got banned an hour after buying the membership(s) so the credit card company sided with the kid. i know people told lowtax that posting that kids info was going to get him banned from payment processors. might've led lowt to delete the thread.

 

[AnOminous]

The TOS literally stipulated you could be banned at a whim so I dont know who's in the wrong

That's essentially denying there's a contract, because a contract requires both sides agree to do (or refrain from doing) something. If one side says "lmao I'll give you an account maybe unless it would be funny just to steal your money instead" that's not a contract.

 

[White Devil]

I also was abruptly banned for saying the nigger like 6 years after i said it

I've also been banned for a post years after. They legitimately go through peoples post history looking for shit.

 

[Ghostse]

I vaguely remember that. I do remember chargebacks being basically memory holed and a ton of cope around the issue. I think the jannies said that chargebacks were unfair because technically you got what you paid for, a membership, but you broke the TOS.

The TOS literally stipulated you could be banned at a whim so I dont know who's in the wrong

The answer is that the terms of service would likely be ruled unconscionable and most credit card providers include mandatory refund periods. With physical goods and services that actually require work theres usually some discussio. In a case like this, the payment processor is likely going to demand Lowtax eat the whole thing.

 

[The golden neckbeard]

I've also been banned for a post years after. They legitimately go through peoples post history looking for shit.

Yeah it was like 6 years after i said it. Someone did a call out on people who said N word in FYAD and i was on the list and got whacked

Totaly bullshit because pre 2008ish you could openly say Nigger anywhere in the forum without worry and most people did say it unironically.

 

[ellroy]

Yeah it was like 6 years after i said it. Someone did a call out on people who said N word in FYAD and i was on the list and got whacked

Totaly bullshit because pre 2008ish you could openly say Nigger anywhere in the forum without worry and most people did say it unironically.

Goons support cancel culture because they survived their own version of it in their own dystopian online society.

 

[White Devil]

Goons support cancel culture because they survived their own version of it in their own dystopian online society.

Goons are probably the biggest hypocrites on the entire internet.

 

[Never Scored]

Yeah it was like 6 years after i said it. Someone did a call out on people who said N word in FYAD and i was on the list and got whacked

Totaly bullshit because pre 2008ish you could openly say Nigger anywhere in the forum without worry and most people did say it unironically.

I remember when they abruptly banned faggot around 2013 or 2014 and I ate a probation for it. You could say it whenever all along and then one day you just couldn't, not a gradual thing, just like literally overnight they put the rule in place.

 

[Sabrina]

talking about some mod melting down over "jannie" and unpaid mods sparked a Lowtax memory. back in 2004-2007 Some kid paid 10bux, got banned and then refunded the money. Lowtax posted this kid's paypal transaction information, his name, address and everything out of inept rage. anyone remember that? I think a sasstronaut reported it to the Visa/Mastercard.

Yes! And i believe it was the kid's mom's cc number so it was technically her dox.

 

[murdered meat bag]

Yes! And i believe it was the kid's mom's cc number so it was technically her dox.

hahah. lowt has always been an idiot.

 

[BIG BILL HELL'S]

I remember when they abruptly banned faggot around 2013 or 2014 and I ate a probation for it. You could say it whenever all along and then one day you just couldn't, not a gradual thing, just like literally overnight they put the rule in place.

Something similar happened to 'retard' along the way, too.

 

[Leonard Helplessness]

talking about some mod melting down over "jannie" and unpaid mods sparked a Lowtax memory. back in 2004-2007 Some kid paid 10bux, got banned and then refunded the money. Lowtax posted this kid's paypal transaction information, his name, address and everything out of inept rage. anyone remember that? I think a sasstronaut reported it to the Visa/Mastercard.

In more recent times, Null bought an SA banner ad linking to this site and it was automatically removed from the ad rotation without ever once displaying. My recollection from the MATI streams discussing it is that Null repeatedly emailed Lowtax about the issue, and after not getting a single response, asked his bank for a chargeback. The chargeback was granted, and Lowtax (who still owned SA at the time) proceeded to cry on stream about getting hit with a chargeback fee.

That incident was made all the funnier by the fact that Lowtax completely ignored the problem until it affected his bank balance, despite having been given ample opportunity to fix the problem more cheaply by just checking his fucking business email. The site automatically eating customers' money like a broken vending machine didn't matter to Lowtax until he checked his bank balance and there'd been money taken out, leaving him with less to spend on pills and mail-ordered pies.

On top of that, my understanding of the chargeback process is that from the merchant's point of view, the process starts with the withdrawal: The bank pulls out the money and gives the merchant a deadline to explain why the transaction should be valid, and the merchant's refutation of the chargeback is accepted, the merchant gets the payment back. Lowtax couldn't be assed to respond; instead he just got on stream and cried about the mean, unfair Kiwifarms chargeback until people donated money to him.

 

[Sabrina]

Yeah I've only had chargeback letters sent by mail, and keeping up with that is a problem for lazy manchildren because it doesn't beep at you and nothing happens if you don't pick it up immediately (until the box is physically full). Lowtax probably would have lost in that interaction because the ad was never posted, but he'd also need to provide the proper documentation to have any chance at winning it, and all of these things constitute work so he's never going to do any of it.

Trying to remember from my past jobs if a chargeback actually came with a fee which would be something like $30 that is typical for bounced checks, or if it just carries a regular cc charge fee, which usually have different rates depending on if it's a sale, a refund initiated by the seller, or other fees like the customer's credit card declined, but all of these scenarios cost a matter of cents. As in less than 10 cents per transaction.

Tens of thousands of dollars per month in revenue and cries about losing $30 charged for an ad he didn't run and something like 7.5 cents in fees.

 

[Maude Snew]

I seem to remember him complaining about "sizeable chargeback fees" every time something like that happened but I don't happen to remember any concrete amounts he mentioned or if he did at all. I will also not go back through his streams to confirm.

 

[Autistic Joe]

Maybe instead of dollars they charged him in Goldbelly pies, that would definitely explain the butthurt.

 

[Hongourable Madisha]

I never thought I'd see something worse than moofwear.

Dontrel the Dolphin wasn't funny a decade ago and it's not funny now. Let the forced meme die already, right alongside the terminally unfunny Goku Pants thing.

Goku Pants was funny in the context of the thread: it was some neurotic troon whining about how he'd commissioned a shitty webcomic about his plights but set in some cyberpunk world, and the artist had apparently screwed him over and now he wanted goons to draw it for him. The artist showed up and said he was hurting her business and showed he'd been a shitty customer. The Goku Pants thing was one goon taking the piss out of the guy and saying he could draw cartoons by drawing Goku's pants. But yes, the goons ran it into the ground like everything, and it became a boring meme. A picture of Goku's pants isn't funny, not without the story of the whiny entitled troon and his webcomic behind it.

 

[White Devil]

Goku Pants was funny in the context of the thread: it was some neurotic troon whining about how he'd commissioned a shitty webcomic about his plights but set in some cyberpunk world, and the artist had apparently screwed him over and now he wanted goons to draw it for him. The artist showed up and said he was hurting her business and showed he'd been a shitty customer. The Goku Pants thing was one goon taking the piss out of the guy and saying he could draw cartoons by drawing Goku's pants. But yes, the goons ran it into the ground like everything, and it became a boring meme. A picture of Goku's pants isn't funny, not without the story of the whiny entitled troon and his webcomic behind it.

Nowadays it'd be considered transphobic.

 

[Spunt]

Search is down right now (it's just like being on SA!) but I think that troon has a short thread here. Their SA username was Spoonfulofbromide, if anyone can get search working on their end.

 

[Hongourable Madisha]

Search is down right now (it's just like being on SA!) but I think that troon has a short thread here. Their SA username was Spoonfulofbromide, if anyone can get search working on their end.

That's the one! I forgot he was obsessed with Shredded Moose of all things. Here is the Goku Pants story, I just Googled spoonfulofbromide and Kiwi: https://kiwifarms.net/threads/spoonfulofbromide-liz-davis.3579/

And his main thread: https://kiwifarms.net/threads/robert-wayne-stiles-liz-davis-rika.3763/