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

[kiwilurkin]

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How Did This Phoenix Tech Company Achieve a Staggering 36,000 Percent Growth? A Mistake Had a Lot to Do With It

They started with a swimsuit calendar. Their first big move didn't work out. Today, they're running the No. 1 company on the Inc. 5000.

www.inc.com

 

[Leonard Helplessness]

What ad platform did Bogan name drop she was signing SA up for on one of her business woman posts?

Freestar. It was Freestar. This is hilarious.

Lowtax patched in a bunch of shitty ads, Jeffrey of YOSPOS patched them back out without asking him. Time to pop some fucking corn.

 

[Dog-O-Tron 5000v5.0]

How Did This Phoenix Tech Company Achieve a Staggering 36,000 Percent Growth? A Mistake Had a Lot to Do With It

They started with a swimsuit calendar. Their first big move didn't work out. Today, they're running the No. 1 company on the Inc. 5000.

www.inc.com

Sounds like the sort of quality company Savvy Businesswoman Bogan would do a business with.

 

[MirnaMinkoff]

Sounds like the sort of quality company Savvy Businesswoman Bogan would do a business with.

Freestar. It was Freestar. This is hilarious.

Lowtax patched in a bunch of shitty ads, Jeffrey of YOSPOS patched them back out without asking him. Time to pop some fucking corn.

Jesus, she and Lowtax are fucking hilariously stupid and lazy. As even goons pointed out she’s paying a scammy middle man company for ad bidding (plus tracking!) she could get do for free via prebid and others.

FreeStar: When you’re too stupid to set up header bidding yourself.

 

[Invoke-Mimikatz]

The high cost of free labour.

 

[MirnaMinkoff]

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How Did This Phoenix Tech Company Achieve a Staggering 36,000 Percent Growth? A Mistake Had a Lot to Do With It

They started with a swimsuit calendar. Their first big move didn't work out. Today, they're running the No. 1 company on the Inc. 5000.

www.inc.com

The high cost of free labour.

No shit.

The amazing part is that Lowtax could get better advice on header bidding from plenty of goons, and even Jeffery, than BPD digital native business woman Bogan.

Folk Style Fisting is right that real time ad bidding will make Lowtax’s (and SA users) life hell.

Bogan obviously temped at some shitty firm that used FreeStar and figured it would solve all of the Taxman’s money problems. The genius idea of make more traffic, more scammy annoying ads, profit!

There are obviously plenty of goons with experience with web marketing or even just header bidding platforms. Why wouldn’t he just ask them for some advice?

Also, please tell me this means he gave admin access to Bogan Lay. I mean if Lowtax claimed he didn’t do it, and Jeffery didn’t know...then that must mean Bogan got the keys to the mighty SA kingdom to allow that shit to queue up on SA, even better on accounts ppl paid extra to be ad free.

 

[Trip Chesterton III]

Also, please tell me this means he gave admin access to Bogan Lay. I mean if Lowtax claimed he didn’t do it, and Jeffery didn’t know...then that must mean Bogan got the keys to the mighty SA kingdom to allow that shit to queue up on SA, even better on accounts ppl paid extra to be ad free.

My first assumption was that he did it himself and just lied about it. I mean it wouldn't be hard to implement the script, but as far as I can tell Logan is a "Marketer" and not a tech person. But I dunno, I am old. Do they teach web design in high school these days?

And like, not that you need to be a coder to paste a script, but I am a tech person who works with marketers, and the marketers I work with are clueless with regards to even basic code

 

[X Prime]

I looked up header bidding, and all it made me want to do was destroy the entire internet ad industry.

Thank God for uMatrix.

 

[Something Awful]

lmao, Burt was experiencing some cognitive dissonance for a second there

but now everything is alright, the struggle is finished

He's such a company man, he still can't fucking comprehend that he's working for a useless pill-popping, wife-abusing piece of shit.

 

[MirnaMinkoff]

My first assumption was that he did it himself and just lied about it. I mean it wouldn't be hard to implement the script, but as far as I can tell Logan is a "Marketer" and not a tech person. But I dunno, I am old. Do they teach web design in high school these days?

And like, not that you need to be a coder to paste a script, but I am a tech person who works with marketers, and the marketers I work with are clueless with regards to even basic code

What I assumed was Bogan would basically hand over the access info to the trust worthy fellows at FreeStar to set it all up for her. Zero chance Logan could have done it herself. If she had even a bit of tech savvy she wouldn’t be using shysters like FreeStar to do this in the first place.

You’re are correct that it would be unusual for her, or any marketer, to know anything about code or even how to paste in a script. So either she had FS set it up for her or Lowtax is lying.

 

[Something Awful]

Lowtax made a thread.

"help how does computer work, i dont understand anything, what is going on. where are my pills"

 

[I can't imagine]

Lowtax made a thread.

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"help how does computer work, i dont understand anything, what is going on. where are my pills"

I'm not sure which option makes him look worse: somehow thinking this wouldn't be incredibly noticeable to his users and doing it on purpose, or him managing to be so incompetent after decades of experience that he actually did this by accident.

 

[Leonard Helplessness]

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Gee, I wonder where the fuck this code could have come from.

And Richard is trying to convince everybody that this shit just mysteriously appeared on the forums?

 

[Affluent Reptilian]

Jeffrey of Yospos dives on the bomb for Lowtax, his lord and savior.

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Jeffrey is a bit spineless but I actually prefer him to most of the other mods/admins we've had, and get the sense if not for the awful culture of SA being what it is he wouldn't be out there punishing wrongthink and carrying water for troons.

Of course, he still does that now even though none of this should really matter to him, so he's not entirely off the hook, but I can't despise him in the same way as guys like FaU, Jose, etc.

 

[Sabrina]

Right now, you have a woman who thinks filing a 1099 on behalf of a non-employee constitutes a "contract" and her solution to revitalize the site is to...post articles? There are many sites that do this better, that have an audience, and are relevant, that have also gone under and tanked because in general print media is legacy media without a specific hook or very targeted audience.

1099-MISC workers are often called "contractors" but that doesn't mean what she thinks it does. It is, also, illegal to have contractors work for free same as actual employees. Nothing would happen to him unless enough people got shafted and both had the sack and knew who to complain to though.

My first assumption was that he did it himself and just lied about it. I mean it wouldn't be hard to implement the script, but as far as I can tell Logan is a "Marketer" and not a tech person. But I dunno, I am old. Do they teach web design in high school these days?

And like, not that you need to be a coder to paste a script, but I am a tech person who works with marketers, and the marketers I work with are clueless with regards to even basic code

She's a digital native that means she's good with computers!!!

Edit: also looked up what an adware "fingerprinter" is and well:

New Adware Screenshots Your Desktop, Takes PC Fingerprint

The Faster Internet adware takes a screenshot of your computer display without you knowing and logs data on your PC's configuration.

www.digitaltrends.com

 

[Intelligent Calcium]

Lowtax made a thread.

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"help how does computer work, i dont understand anything, what is going on. where are my pills"

"Good news, goons! The database has become sentient and copied over some ad code because it was lonely, but it's fixed now. No you can't see it or speak to it, but it says you should give more money to my Patreon."

 

[AnOminous]

lmao, Burt was experiencing some cognitive dissonance for a second there

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but now everything is alright, the struggle is finished

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He's such a company man, he still can't fucking comprehend that he's working for a useless pill-popping, wife-abusing piece of shit.

So has this painfully unfunny useless cunt taken over the job previously held by FagsAreUseless as shittiest mod?

 

[Pissmaster]

1099-MISC workers are often called "contractors" but that doesn't mean what she thinks it does. It is, also, illegal to have contractors work for free same as actual employees. Nothing would happen to him unless enough people got shafted and both had the sack and knew who to complain to though.



She's a digital native that means she's good with computers!!!

Edit: also looked up what an adware "fingerprinter" is and well:

New Adware Screenshots Your Desktop, Takes PC Fingerprint

The Faster Internet adware takes a screenshot of your computer display without you knowing and logs data on your PC's configuration.

www.digitaltrends.com

Yeah, that's modern spyware for you. Freaky shit like that, among with ransomware and malicious cryptominers are what you get with poisoned ads these days. Anyone who knows about adblocking software but refuses to use it because they actually buy into that "plz support u're favorite websites by allowing ads!!!" cockamamie is asking for it.

Which more or less makes up everyone who's still sticking with SA because fuck knows why.

 

[northstar747]

So has this painfully unfunny useless cunt taken over the job previously held by FagsAreUseless as shittiest mod?

No one could ever match fags are useless BS is annoying and angery and cleary likes to wave his stupid dick around but FAU was just awful.

FAU had stages like lowtax. First he would be the cool approachable admin, then when reality didnt conform to what he wanted he would then try to ape wacky zanny monkey cheese, then he would move into "THIS IS BAD THIS IS A BAD POST YOU ARE A BAD POSTER BAN BAN BAN!"

He could ban a dude for pounding vietnamese poon, but not for pounding his step son.

I've not checked the forums for some time how is the purity spiral going or did the troon running off to bread and roses. combined with the lowtax drama shut it down?

 

[School of Fish]

Yeah, that's modern spyware for you. Freaky shit like that, among with ransomware and malicious cryptominers are what you get with poisoned ads these days. Anyone who knows about adblocking software but refuses to use it because they actually buy into that "plz support u're favorite websites by allowing ads!!!" cockamamie is asking for it.

Which more or less makes up everyone who's still sticking with SA because fuck knows why.

It's why cybersecurity is so important these days.

If you don't want to get hacked or doxxed then it's important to take the time to buff up your own online security so that if something happens such as an attack happens then at least you will be protected (password managers, privacy browsers, and maybe even consider finding a good Linux distribution when you can too).

And Lowtax is just like the many old geezers that don't really know shit about computers anyway.