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"

[Grog]

We are awaiting Lowtax's signature.

Just a reminder that this retard had like four months to set up a forum identical to SA on XenForo and migrate the users, but is choosing to give bags of money to Lowtax, the guy goons all purport to hate.

Goons can't move out to a different site because nothing is more important to a goon than their reg date and post count. It gives them the right to brag about being an Internet Oldfag in an irrelevant dead forum. That's why they keep using it and paying Lowtax, the person the claim to hate.

 

[northstar747]

Goons can't move out to a different site because nothing is more important to a goon than their reg date and post count. It gives them the right to brag about being an Internet Oldfag in an irrelevant dead forum. That's why they keep using it and paying Lowtax, the person the claim to hate.

Cant you just import those things over?

 

[TurdFondler]

When SA was at its apex porting the data over was an incredible task. It would have to be done manually essentially. LowT could have outsourced the work to some pajeets but it would have cost money.

Now? You'd have to port a few thousand users MAYBE

 

[White Devil]

I think estimating SA's usership in the thousands is extremely overly generous. I'm sure it's more just hundreds with a shitload of parachutes.

I can't imagine the people who regged just for LPs are actually active in the forum at large given what a huge cesspool of mental illness it is.

 

[Ghostse]

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We are awaiting Lowtax's signature.

Just a reminder that this retard had like four months to set up a forum identical to SA on XenForo and migrate the users, but is choosing to give bags of money to Lowtax, the guy goons all purport to hate.

"There's been a small delay, Lowtax was supposed to sign the documents and send it back, but instead all we got was (another) photocopy of Lowtax's asshole. He's assured me this was a problem with his fax machine and will have the documents to me by end of day week year.

 

[AnOminous]

Jeffrey, I know you're reading this and it's been said a million times before but I bet when you buy the forum it's all gonna be cool and good and everyone will love you and not immediately accuse you of unforgivable crimes and force you to give it up for free like the pathetic faggot you are.

He's already been exactly the low effort power abusing lazy cunt LowT is and possibly worse. Meet the new boss same as the old boss.

 

[Ashen One]

Goons do this obnoxiously stupid shit all the time and it's primarily directed at other goons to try to convince them they are "chillax." Being so retardedly insular they have this weird culture of pretending not to give a shit while very much giving a shit. It's painfully transparent on the outside but somehow they all keep falling for each others' garbage.

Lol, right? Those autistic losers at the K*wi F**ms following people and laugh at things they post online by their own volition. Look, they posted something twenty seven seconds ago that just shows how obsessed they are with me, who am not even paying attention to them lmao. What? No, I'm not furiously refreshing my thread there every minute, I just happen to know that by coincidence.

Now I'll go show how not giving a shit and unaffected by this I am right now by creating a thread about it. And I'll also post something that responds to something those ki*i farm*rs said in their little terrible thread but of course I don't read there to know and even if I did I still would not care lolol. See ya later, you pathetic crayon eating, glue sniffing gooftroops.

 

[Maude Snew]

Doesn't Jeffrey already have full access to everything? He could just take the relevant shit and plug it into a less shitty forum and not give Lowtax any money. I'm not saying that's shit you just do in an afternoon but it seems preferable to paying six figured for it. Especially when you're being stonewalled like that.

 

[AnOminous]

Doesn't Jeffrey already have full access to everything? He could just take the relevant shit and plug it into a less shitty forum and not give Lowtax any money. I'm not saying that's shit you just do in an afternoon but it seems preferable to paying six figured for it. Especially when you're being stonewalled like that.

This would be what you would do if you weren't just as worthless and lazy as LowT himself. Did I say groveling nutlicker too? Because groveling nutlicker too.

 

[Dan Abrams]

Cant you just import those things over?

Yes. He could have just had autistic goons send in a screenshot of their SA profile with something to prove it's them and then just set their regdate and post count to that. Jeff could have just made his own site, done that (ensuring all goons would come over), and be done with Lowtax. Oh, and he wouldn't have had to give the drug addict wife beater that they all hate $100k.

 

[Anja Din]

I guess while lowtax can’t whine about website costs after selling it, he will assuredly still beg for “medical bills”. There is no way this guy is getting his first real job at 42.

it‘s pretty dumb that Jeffrey didn’t just start another website for all the troons instead of paying lowtax. Is that so they don’t lose their reg dates? who gives a shit?

 

[Back me up!]

Yes. He could have just had autistic goons send in a screenshot of their SA profile with something to prove it's them and then just set their regdate and post count to that. Jeff could have just made his own site, done that (ensuring all goons would come over), and be done with Lowtax. Oh, and he wouldn't have had to give the drug addict wife beater that they all hate $100k.

Ahhh but you forget: Goons are lazy. Jeffery needs that url of forums.somethingawful.com to get the people that show up but are too lazy to go move to a new off-shoot, change bookmarks, etc.

 

[Ghostse]

He's already been exactly the low effort power abusing lazy cunt LowT is and possibly worse. Meet the new boss same as the old boss.

Lowtax is an absentee father and forum-lord. Jeffery has been running shift years, and is currently running shit. New boss is very literally the old boss.

 

[Silas]

Ahhh but you forget: Goons are lazy. Jeffery needs that url of forums.somethingawful.com to get the people that show up but are too lazy to go move to a new off-shoot, change bookmarks, etc.

When SomethingSensitive.com was in the middle of being transferred, we used SomethingSensitive.org temporarily. They threw the biggest baby-whining shitfit when we moved over to the .com and OMG I WAS USED TO .ORG


... so I changed it to forum.somethingsensitive.com just to fuck with 'em a bit more haha

 

[Nutritious_Banana]

Yes. He could have just had autistic goons send in a screenshot of their SA profile with something to prove it's them and then just set their regdate and post count to that. Jeff could have just made his own site, done that (ensuring all goons would come over), and be done with Lowtax. Oh, and he wouldn't have had to give the drug addict wife beater that they all hate $100k.

But then it isn't SomethingAwful-brand SomethingAwful, it's just another gemwric offsite. How would anyone know that you're THE "Fluffsexual" who made that thread about painting miniature soldiers that spawned FIVE whole pages!

 

[Spunt]

Doesn't Jeffrey already have full access to everything? He could just take the relevant shit and plug it into a less shitty forum and not give Lowtax any money. I'm not saying that's shit you just do in an afternoon but it seems preferable to paying six figured for it. Especially when you're being stonewalled like that.

On the other thread it turned out SA used 14 Terabytes of bandwidth in August, which seems an awful lot for a dying forum that doesn't host its own images.

 

[Goodbye Horses]

Doesn't Jeffrey already have full access to everything? He could just take the relevant shit and plug it into a less shitty forum and not give Lowtax any money. I'm not saying that's shit you just do in an afternoon but it seems preferable to paying six figured for it. Especially when you're being stonewalled like that.

That would be straight-up theft. Not that it wouldn't be funny watching Jeffery of Poz trooning out to get sent to a women's prison.

 

[TurdFondler]

LowT wouldn't do a damn thing except for pity post and chug wine if Jeffrey stole the forums.

The multiple terabytes of data thing was addressed over and over on SA. I don't know how true it it. Basically the forum is a holdover from much earlier tech. It can't run on a VM, or VMs and it doesn't do anything fancy like caching. Every page refresh sends the user a shit ton of data. It was the norm back in the day, which made hosting forums a lot more expensive than now. Somehow special cells and other junk really impact this in some way (FYAD, probated posts etc). It's a monstrous contraption incapable of being optimized without starting from scratch.

Or, more likely, there's 3 gigabytes of user data and the rest is because mods are trading CP thru messaging.

 

[cuddle striker]

I think estimating SA's usership in the thousands is extremely overly generous. I'm sure it's more just hundreds with a shitload of parachutes.

I can't imagine the people who regged just for LPs are actually active in the forum at large given what a huge cesspool of mental illness it is.

Average SA poster; joined in 01, only because you couldn't see anything without paying, and I had a bill to spare. Posted once or twice, gave up, read archives. I think most of the userbase has been in gawk and lurk mode since 2016 or so. For me it was 2015.
I have no interest in the site now and never got into the humor of it very deeply. It was an interesting place to read about crackheads, for a while. I look at the forum now and at the archive and feel that most users are/were similar to me. Paid once, never thought about it again.

I can't remember for sure when I signed up but I did pay for archives at some point. Someone else paid for platinum for me, I gave them advice in one of my 2 posts there.



I think you're right, and there may be thousands of registered users but only a small number are active these days. Very few would pay to get back into that site, if any. There's nothing to enjoy there. I'm not sure why it's even worth selling. What's to buy? The archive, maybe. Maybe. It's past the peak. What does the buyer think he's going to do with it?

edit: saving a life that night
That guy is on another site, he's not using heavy drugs any more. Good for him. His profile last posted on SA about 6 months after my last post.

 

[Baggywrinkle]

I said it before - goons are that fat lady who got fused to her couch after sitting in her own filth for years. They will never leave.