Tomorrow Untrodden
posted by max on November 05, 2010 at 01:26:07 AM
Greetings.
I've taken the next few weeks off from work to have another YTMND development drive. This will include much-needed maintenance, bug fixes and a few new features. In addition to this, I've been working with Big Spaceship over the last month working on a new design, which I'll be implementing as well. If I have the remaining time, I'll be fixing up the admin panels and possibly adding some new mods.
So this is your chance to complain about anything (aside from the design) that's been bugging you recently or stuff you've been dying for.
I'll keep you guys updated over the next few weeks in between eating handfuls of adderall. Please provide useful feedback and bug reports. While I'm working on the new codebase, I'm going to be moderating with an iron fist. There will be zero tolerance for spamming/trolling/etc, so unless you want all your accounts deleted and to be IP banned at our routers, please try and behave for once.
Please do not bother me about being a moderator, when the time comes I'll make a news post about it.
I've taken the next few weeks off from work to have another YTMND development drive. This will include much-needed maintenance, bug fixes and a few new features. In addition to this, I've been working with Big Spaceship over the last month working on a new design, which I'll be implementing as well. If I have the remaining time, I'll be fixing up the admin panels and possibly adding some new mods.
So this is your chance to complain about anything (aside from the design) that's been bugging you recently or stuff you've been dying for.
I'll keep you guys updated over the next few weeks in between eating handfuls of adderall. Please provide useful feedback and bug reports. While I'm working on the new codebase, I'm going to be moderating with an iron fist. There will be zero tolerance for spamming/trolling/etc, so unless you want all your accounts deleted and to be IP banned at our routers, please try and behave for once.
Please do not bother me about being a moderator, when the time comes I'll make a news post about it.
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May I suggest we make a new contest à la Jon Stewart's rally? Something like "Contest to restore Dogginess" or similar. A contest in which we, the 99.99% of the community, are fed up of the constant stream of shit delivered by the other 0.01%. I think a fun contest like that would help reconnect our community and make it a little stronger.
When I say this, I mean to make a limit so people can stop site spamming.
http://weneedchange.ytmnd.com/
[u]Examples of what you can do:[/u]
A user can only make an X amount of sites in a day
A user can only make a site every 10 minutes.
A user can't make a site that they already used the name for. (Let's say a use made a site called "Sauce", well that user can't name another site called "Sauce" again.) And a user can't make 2 sites with the same audio, pictures, and content.
some people in "the forum where the current state of the site is being discussed" are trying to figure out ways to solve the "personal sites" problem and the group voting problem. ok, these are problems i guess, but they are inevitable problems. or, inevitable symptoms of an online community. if you're trying to find concrete solutions to these problems, aren't you trying to limit
1) the user's right to post what they want
and
2) the users right to vote how they please
aren't number 1 and number 2 the most basic ideas that allow ytmnd to be ytmnd? wouldn't it be kind of fascist to try and regulate them?
i guess i [i]would[/i] like to see this place grow up and become more like FoD or other places like that. that's what will save it.
i guess i'm agreeing with you. not that i was ever totally against you on the subject. 100% of my responses to you here were for the sole purpose of being a wiseass and making you respond. especially my above comment about fascism.
so yes, i would like a more rigid front page format, but i also wouldn't want to totally loose the internet-garbage aspect all together.
plus, i really want to see all kinds of real life user related stuff, like what cereal max ate for breakfast or what toilet paper brand feels the best on fourest's butt. like, if i could see a fourest-uploaded pic taken from the view of him sitting on the toilet, and you can see the opened Charmin Ultra Soft pack sitting next to the tub and like fourest's leg is blurry in the bottom corner of he pic, haha! that would be awesome.
if you could upload .txt files or microsoft word files, that would be cool. i wanna read poetry, short stories, emails, journal entries, whatever. if a user made it, i wanna see it.
everything i said is a lie. not the fat pirate part, unfortunately. i was fingering her butt and eating her out. i'm still waiting for my lips to break out and the roof of my mouth to turn to liquid.
Also it would be nice to have random ytmnd back and working; random.ytmnd.com goes to a site once "unviewable."
Also i can vote on most sites while they load, so i don't have to view them. I usually do view them, but if my internet is going slow, then i don't.
FIX:YTMND needs to rise back to its glory days of 05/06, but i guess that falls to the users making good content.
I like to imagine this site as a place where you have fun, reflect and discuss about what people feel important to share. Do we really have to fight against each other, for things which don't even concern our role in this community? Do we have to scream and offend, saying the obvious most of the time? Do we have to judge, condemn and bash just because we think we have a right to say whatever we want?
I live in a place where school books used to be regulated by the "government" and still there's a lot to complain about openness. Stephen Colbert often jokingly says "Freedom isn't free." Maybe he's right, if you think about it. We have been given a chance to express ourselves, by a sole person. Let's not spoil this opportunity, we cannot take anything for granted. For the sake of this community, behave yourself. All of us. Me too.
Oh my god, why have I been on ytmnd for over 3 years. Jesus Christ.
Anyway, here's the thing: trying to instigate positivity and productivity from the apathetic/pathetic masses of ytmnd is meaningless. Most of the users active in the community are trolls or mental cases, or something in between. Of those listening who are not part of the problem, 90% of them have observed the community climate and have independently reasoned something to the affect of what you have said, so they don't need to hear it, and don't get involved ever. They are the type of people that intuitively avoid any and all pissing contests, and are very self-assured, of both their stature and penis size, but because they are non-interventionists nothing gets improved. The other 10% tread lightly and are fucking awesome. Or at least, this is what I tell myself.
however, i'm just not going to post them right now. what would be the point in that? it sucks i have to wait.