Bigot Brigade Something Awful and Friends - The roller-coaster train-wreck embarrassing downfall of a Web 1.0 giant and its tick offspring like from Cloverfield

[OwO What's This?]

It'll be fun to see the patreon money dwindle while lowtax sucks tranny cock more and more desperately, setting fire to his own forums in the process. Couldn't have happened to a more deserving guy.

imagine if stone toss turned out to be shmorky

would we be able to cope with a reality that funny

 

[Null]

Dear leader @Null you seem to be running a effective forum. How would you handle a community issue like this?

Depends if it were an SA thing or a KF thing. On KF I'd make fun of everyone involved until they left on their own or adapted into being less shit. On SA I can't even imagine. I'd start by removing every staff member, institute a policy of "mind your own fucking business", reverse every ban in the last 5 years, and do absolutely nothing as the lone admin for an entire week to see what problems actually crop up that need staff to deal with.

 

[FunPosting101]

Man this is such an absurd and hilarious shitshow, if you had told me back in the early 2000s that the place I used to lurk on(never bought a membership for various reasons)would be overwhelmed by an angry horde of transexuals I would have made the perfectly sensible assumption that you were making a ridiculous and over the top joke, but here we fucking are a few days from 2020 and I'd guess that fits since hindsight is always 2020 or some shit.

Lowtax was always something of a lazy fucker, so him letting his forum go down in flames shouldn't really surprise anyone in retrospect. Still though, fucking trannies did it? How the fuck do you make being a sellout even lamer then it normally is?

 

[Ghostse]

On SA I can't even imagine. I'd start by removing every staff member, institute a policy of "mind your own fucking business", reverse every ban in the last 5 years, and do absolutely nothing as the lone admin for an entire week to see what problems actually crop up that need staff to deal with.

But if you did that, people would start immediately posting nigger, tranny and faggot, possibly unironically, while also using 𝗋𝖾𝗍𝖺𝗋𝖽 as a pejorative. Do you know how many triggered people there would be if that happened? Some posters are still literally shaking from when the removed the rules on GBS in 2013.

Also that's some big fucking talk for a man who's forum isn't running on poorly documented custom spaghetti fuckfuck code that was written by a guy who didn't seem to be all that good and won't return your calls anymore.
Climb off down off your Xenforo 2.gay high-horse where search is free and actually works, and you'd know what's its like to run a real forum, one with a code base from the 90s, where deleting posts crashes the entire database or if someone is on too many ignore lists it makes the php queries grind to a halt.

 

[Null]

Climb off down off your Xenforo 2.gay high-horse and you'd know what's its like to run a real forum, one with a code base from the 90s, where deleting posts crashes the entire database or if someone is on too many ignore lists it makes the php queries grind to a halt.

I know you're mostly being sarcastic, but when I was working on Next one of the things I had to do was import the existing code for 8chan to the new system. I ended up writing this massive import script (pretty sloppily, but still).

infinity-next/infinity-next

Infinity Next is an imageboard suite utilizing the Laravel framework. - infinity-next/infinity-next

github.com

Lowtax needs a few custom extensions (mostly for fencing off stuff behind a paywall), but really importing something like a forum from codebase A to codebase B is not so hard.

 

[OwO What's This?]

I know you're mostly being sarcastic, but when I was working on Next one of the things I had to do was import the existing code for 8chan to the new system. I ended up writing this massive import script (pretty sloppily, but still).

infinity-next/infinity-next

Infinity Next is an imageboard suite utilizing the Laravel framework. - infinity-next/infinity-next

github.com

Lowtax needs a few custom extensions (mostly for fencing off stuff behind a paywall), but really importing something like a forum from codebase A to codebase B is not so hard.

none of their volunteer coders have ever been able to piece together CSS that hides broken admin buttons which cause instant database corruption when you push them lol

 

[I don't like jews]

Plot twist: CascadeBeta is the troll account of Uwe Boll who felt like beating the shit out of lowtax emotionally this time

 

[Ghostse]

I know you're mostly being sarcastic, but when I was working on Next one of the things I had to do was import the existing code for 8chan to the new system. I ended up writing this massive import script (pretty sloppily, but still).

infinity-next/infinity-next

Infinity Next is an imageboard suite utilizing the Laravel framework. - infinity-next/infinity-next

github.com

Lowtax needs a few custom extensions (mostly for fencing off stuff behind a paywall), but really importing something like a forum from codebase A to codebase B is not so hard.

I'm being completely sarcastic and just round about dunking on Lowtax, as Lowtax's infrastructure problems are his own fucking doing because he's lazy and strung out on pills. He's also concerned, very likely correctly so, that any change to the SA's web 1.0 UX will be met with anger and departure of some of his paypigs.

Also I understand you have better things to do than keep track of the drama of a pillhead and his dead gay forum, but Lowtax already raised $20,000 to do what you are proposing: migrate the forums from Radium's Pollock code to something that's at least newer than 9/11 (Also to get cheaper hosting for his very unoptimized VMs and update the underlying virtual server application stacks) He supposedly was flying to China and everything. Nothing came out of it other than some mild interface tweaks, supposedly moving to newer versions of apache, and what I imagine was a lot ton of ambien, as only a few months after he had the funds (just about enough time to blow $20,000 on Aero chairs, $50 mail-order pies, and a good ambien bender), right around the time people were asking questions about where the money went, he was posting about the Crumbling Spine Saga.


Actually, now that I think about with these new revelations about Logan "Stormin' Mormon" Day, I wonder who's panties he went to China to climb inside? Or was that just sex tourism? I understand they've got the girls with the cute, tiny, flexible feet over there.

 

[byuu]

I legit wonder how long it takes for Lowtax to realize that he can't and will NEVER appease these people.

He just needs to start calling himself non-binary and he can get away with everything he wants.

 

[A Logging Company]

Now that the 2010s is over is it safe to say it was the decade of the tranny? Also what do you think these social outcasts (the ones who haven't mutilated their bodies beyond repair) will latch on in the 2020s as their cause?

They are going to continue with it, but trans issues are going to be come less and less relevant. Maybe we'll have Troon Cyborgs to worry about in the future.

The inner site movement to remove FYAD is symbolic if you think about it. This whole situation is like a microcosm of what has been happening over the past 8-10 years. For better or worse, SA was the premiere edgy humor site on the internet, with FYAD being such a part of its identity, a Vice article about SA even has FYAD in the title. To remove FYAD would be equivalent to disowning SA's past. I'm even seeing people bring up a link of the day that targeted some trans woman over a decade ago. I mean, what did these people complaining now expect when they signed up, it's Something Awful for god's sake.

I can at least say I never gave Low-T 10bux, and only went there to watch Smorky's old animations.

 

[The Grognard]

You know, I wonder how much personal data Lowtax has and if SA is GDPR compliant?

 

[Null]

if SA is GDPR compliant

Imagine ever once in your entire life giving a single solitary fuck what some faggot paper pushers in Europe think about your website.

 

[plattschwanz]

Plot twist: CascadeBeta is the troll account of Uwe Boll who felt like beating the shit out of lowtax emotionally this time

The funny thing is that Uwe Boll now owns a restaurant that received overall positive reviews from food critics, he even joked how those were the only positive reviews he ever got for his work. He moved on with his life while Lowtax is still dependent on internet autists visiting his dead web 1.0 forum, still stuck in his own ambien-fueled purgatory.

 

[Ghostse]

You know, I wonder how much personal data Lowtax has and if SA is GDPR compliant?

That depends; is credit card numbers in a text file GDPR compliant?

Hilarious as it would be, GDPR would be extremely toothless against Something Awful as it has no EU presence to fine.
Now, PCI Compliance on the other hand.....
(except I believe they use a 3rd party for handling CC deets, and they are likely compliant with both)

 

[Blimp]

none of their volunteer coders have ever been able to piece together CSS that hides broken admin buttons which cause instant database corruption when you push them lol

Storytime: people really underestimate how much of a fuck-up Radium was. Isnoop hung around one of the file forums back when he still posted, and during the period where he attempted to save the day after Radium and "Kendra" ragequit, he mentioned scouring his self-sucking devblog in an attempt to understand TITAN and some of the hackiest code he ever saw, so I wanna assume Lowtax still throws this link at anyone attempting to have a go

Web development. Systems administration. Lobsters? It must be TEAMBARRY.COM!

The main reason why BYOB existed was so he could have an active forum to test shit on and fuck with, along with guinea pigs for wacky per-user forums bullshit. He had a really obnoxious posse there, and Lowtax joining-in TEAM BARRY was one of those events alongside Fauxtesting that cost him what little FYAD cred remained, it was only when they switched the BYOB and FYAD stylesheets on a whim did he start to go into the negative. Was all of this worth it if it meant Titan was going to absolutely own Jelsoft?

TEAMBARRY.COM » Titan Roadmap

Purchase system framework. Purchase controller superclass (framework for “purchase phase” actions), credit system, gift certificate rework, account status page, stub controller class for empty “checkout”

People were getting doublecharged for Awfulmart orders that nobody knew were placed, and were banned for asking why their Jeff K mousepad was nowhere to be found in QCS. Once Awfulmart was "fixed", most of the classic merch people actually wanted to buy was gone, and filled with a lot of Lowtax's experimental shit nobody wanted, like Flat Falls tees and Moofwear, which even FYAD knew not to wear in public. Handre was hired to sell his amusing/horrifying video game art on a positive note, and was then permabanned a year later for othering LF. Mega64 left after the first couple runs of the DVD, and as of now, the only thing you can actually buy is forum shit, as all of the merch is sold via Amazon printing and Teespring

Purchaseable features implementation. Implement individual features that can be purchased, along with the associated UI work: registration, name change, title change (self, other), archives, no-ads, platinum, emoticons, sticky threads, banner ads, gift certificates

Archives and plat were absolutely worthless buys because they didn't work even BEFORE Titan, and continued to not work long after. Search was broken, and continues to die. Archives were busted to the point where archives.somethingawful.com had to be forced somewhere into the main forums, and a lot of REALLY old threads are MIA. These were again things that Radium would ban you for if you tried getting answers in QCS

Admin queue for purchaseables. Approve purchase requests for forum features

See above, admins had no idea what was going on with purchases half the time

Subscription system. Awfulnet. Other surprises!

Subscribe to fucking what? And Awfulnet was a giant mistake to the point where it isn't even archived. The first big mistake was that it was a platform for EPG, it started off as a normie SA hub to promote My Tank is Fight, a book he thought would overtake Alphabet of Manliness in sales, lmao. It also didn't last long enough to promote Your Neighbor is a Dragon either, because if people don't read the frontpage, they especially don't read EPG's page. The only "surprise" Radium was around for was that WKUK promo with a $555 prize, with a special contest board for goons to make with the early GBS humor

New user profiles, options, ignore list, purchase system integration. Replace old user profile page, new options interface, new ignore list structure/interface. Get rid of buddy lists or improve them?

The profile page today is the exact same profile page from 2006, complete with ICQ and AIM sections, it's just more rounded, you can identify as a porpoise, and can keep track of your upgrades

New private message system. Duplicate existing functionality but introduce new interface. More “email-like”, less clunky, better notifications (get rid of javascript dialogue). Real folders. Optional AJAX.

The most Wes Butan of code flexes: changing the UI. PM's are the one thing that's never changed, or have been completely fucked either, so grats

 

[Manah]

I'm surprised nobody's complained about the 'porpoise' gender option.

 

[Ilmseil]

I was just about to mention that. How DARE Lowtax joke about the serious issue of being queer nonbinary?!?!? "Ally for two decades" I can't even

 

[repentance]

The inner site movement to remove FYAD is symbolic if you think about it. This whole situation is like a microcosm of what has been happening over the past 8-10 years. For better or worse, SA was the premiere edgy humor site on the internet, with FYAD being such a part of its identity, a Vice article about SA even has FYAD in the title. To remove FYAD would be equivalent to disowning SA's past. I'm even seeing people bring up a link of the day that targeted some trans woman over a decade ago. I mean, what did these people complaining now expect when they signed up, it's Something Awful for god's sake.

FYAD has been unpopular with the SA community at large for a long time now due them shitting up other forums with their concern trolling and their invasions. They've also been perceived as untouchable due to them being over-valued by admins in general and Lowtax in particular.

With fewer active posters than ever, they're vulnerable and while the wokes actively want them gone, plenty of non-wokes don't give a damn if FYAD disappears.

That Lowtax is deleting front page articles and SApedia entries is an indication of the direction in which he intends to "re-brand" SA. He's too stupid to realise that FYAD is only the begnning and that if he capitulates over FYAD then troons will just switch their attention to the removal of "problematic" mods and posters from other forums - including forums which have far more posters than FYAD or TGRS.

If SA is Lowtax's legacy, it's amazing how willing he is to erase it.

 

[Ebonic Tutor]

I choose now to live as a trans woman

If you didn't just make this up, Logan Day really is trying to teach him how to PR in wacky-zany mode.

 

[The golden neckbeard]

I self identify as a 1960s soviet era jet fighter.

I don't fit into your jet stereotypes or non-binary mechanical gender norms