Trashfire The adezero & aediot breakup trashfire - Now also mediating the trademark dispute between aediot and the other ED guys

aediot said:
I think the internet needs more fear
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Yeah but that's not going to work for a lot of reasons. The Internet is significantly different from how it was when I first started using it, and when you first started using it. People aren't easily scared anymore. You'd have to start doing illegal things, and that greatly reduces the humor value and reach of your content. It's also not profitable. Comedy online has moved mostly to video. Shock has basically been eradicated by social media companies, but CatboyKami trolling Omegle in blackface is also video content.

What Sherrod DeGrippo wanted was honestly not that stupid (modernization, profitability, sustainability), but the way she went about it ruined the site forever. In current_year, you do need a more business oriented approach to operating a website if you want to stay online at all. There are things I have to concede to higher powers that I may not want to, but which are necessary to keep the site open and growing. ED never found its footing after Sherrod because it refuses to accept this reality.

The forum is like a mullet: business in the front, party in the back. There are some easily understood expectations from a thread that have to be taken seriously. If those expectations are met, we can all have a good time and be complete retards. It comes down to me, however, to decide what those things are and how to try and encourage people to do what's needed. That's the business side an admin has to take on.

It helps that the site is its own thing that I've always managed (since the rebranding, at least) and can forge its own identity. When you take an existing property and try to reframe it as something else, you're fighting against expectations held by everybody and set by people before you. Ultimately, you no longer have any say in what an 'Encyclopedia Dramatica' is, as evidenced by the fact that a lot of the old users don't like you and run their own competing version of 'Encyclopedia Dramatica'. The identity of ED is so fractured, I actually own encyclopediadramatica.is myself, because there was discussion if I should host it at some point.


TL;DR: Either take it seriously or don't take it seriously. Everyone seems to take this shit very seriously but pretend not to. The identity of Encyclopedia Dramatica already exists and you can't make it something new. You might as well just make your own thing with some nuance.
 
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putrid said:
You haven't clocked shit, you have 0 evidence of me being trans other than your desperate attempts at insulting me LOL
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"Y-you don't have conclusive evidence of that!" not even "IT'S NAWT TROOOOOOO" truly the last gasp of someone who's been found out

Don't worry though hon, if you keep hanging around with such high caliber individuals I'm sure you'll also get your nudes plastered everywhere by a jilted ex eventually, and then you'll have your proof for or against! But hey, why quit while you're ahead right?

aediot said:
I have plans to both create new lolcows as well as terrify existing ones, obviously I keep the list of people I'm selecting a secret because I don't want them to ban themselves off the internet before we can have our fun
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Look at this tough little leaky twink heading out to TERRIFY some low functioning retards! Wow I wish I could be half as cool, but instead I'll just have to settle for not leaving a poop snail trail everywhere 😩
 
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Null said:
Yeah but that's not going to work for a lot of reasons. The Internet is significantly different from how it was when I first started using it, and when you first started using it. People aren't easily scared anymore. You'd have to start doing illegal things, and that greatly reduces the humor value and reach of your content. It's also not profitable. Comedy online has moved mostly to video. Shock has basically been eradicated by social media companies, but CatboyKami trolling Omegle in blackface is also video content.
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I'm not here to make the site profitable, only makes the website grow in size and new users

It would be nice to recoup costs to some extent sure, but I'm actually so wealthy on my own two feet that I can fund a lot of shit and tank a hundred lawsuits if need be

I know people aren't easily scared anymore from traditional means, but I have plans in play for that too
Null said:
What Sherrod DeGrippo wanted was honestly not that stupid (modernization, profitability, sustainability), but the way she went about it ruined the site forever. In current_year, you do need a more business oriented approach to operating a website if you want to stay online at all. There are things I have to concede to higher powers that I may not want to, but which are necessary to keep the site open and growing. ED never found its footing after Sherrod because it refuses to accept this reality.

The forum is like a mullet: business in the front, party in the back. There are some easily understood expectations from a thread that have to be taken seriously. If those expectations are met, we can all have a good time and be complete retards. It comes down to me, however, to decide what those things are and how to try and encourage people to do what's needed. That's the business side an admin has to take on.
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I'll keep this advice in mind, but outside of growing the name and reputation of the property the other two aspects don't really much concern me for reasons I stated above
Null said:
It helps that the site is its own thing that I've always managed (since the rebranding, at least) and can forge its own identity. When you take an existing property and try to reframe it as something else, you're fighting against expectations held by everybody and set by people before you.
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I completely understand this as well, but reviving a dead property does have perks to starting something fresh especially in today's age that do (and have) actually helped me get the site back on its feet a bit

I don't expect more or less any of what I'm doing to pay off for years to come because I really think it'll just take that long for the old impressions of the site to fade with the new ones beginning to take

Null said:
ltimatelylylylyly, you no longer have any say in what an 'Encyclopedia Dramatica' is, as evidenced by the fact that a lot of the old users don't like you and run their own competing version of 'Encyclopedia Dramatica'. The identity of ED is so fractured, I actually own encyclopediadramatica.is myself, because there was discussion if I should host it at some point.
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In my eyes all that matters is who's standing last, which is exactly what I intend to do

The old users have given up their right to claim that "they are the site" in my head because they have failed at keeping it relevant and nobody thinks encyclopedia dramatica is alive anymore because of them
Null said:
TL;DR: Either take it seriously or don't take it seriously. Everyone seems to take this shit very seriously but pretend not to. The identity of Encyclopedia Dramatica already exists and you can't make it something new. You might as well just make your own thing with some nuance.
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I do take it very seriously actually, I've never pretended not to and it won't ever feign like I don't

The only thing I don't take seriously is how much insane fun it is in the process of making retards cry
 
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aediot said:
Your website having an admin that has self admitted to spreading child porn honestly denotes any opinion of me you might have
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aediot said:
I've already publicly stated it would get released as a last resort, mostly because I know she would hate it and I'm not here to damage anyone but her
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Just fuck off already faggot, no one gives a shit about you or your ex, the only thing that gives a shit is the napkins falling out of your ass, you pathetic bitch.
putrid said:
I'm just having fun
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As for you, you'd barely qualify as a -3 out of 10 if everyone wasn't already convinced that you're a fucking tranny, get a life and dilate harder.
 
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