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NEW RULES FOR THE WHINING: MENTION CHANFAG GET B&

The '*chanfags' are not the be all and end all of ED's problems, just a handy scapegoat. Remember, /b/ is suffering from the same influx of cancerous newfags as ED, SA, EB's and all lulz dedicated sites. As anything becomes moar popular, it exponentially becomes moar diluted with piss.

We need to focus on what to do as opposed to whining about the culprits. moot has chosen (wisely IMO) to let /b/ /b/ all that it can /b/ -for the nature of random is that random does what random wants; random happens. The AIDS in /b/ is logical.

At ED we can cap the faggotry but since our job is to document Internets phenomena such as this faggotry, we're stuck with it. The 4chan article is the #4 most viewed page on ED. Others in the Top 10 include IMMA CHARGIN MAH LAZER, pedophilia, 16 year old girl and rape, which I'm guessing can all be found in /b/tards bookmarks.

Now STOP WHINING ABOUT CHANFAGS AND COME UP WITH SOME SOLUTIONS. I favour closed account creation where an EDitor has to go the extra mile to be part of ED. We had far less faggotry all around when n00bs had to ask a Sysop for an account. Either that or have captcha be an English exam. --OldDirtyBtard<-Sysop 12:34, 25 August 2007 (CDT)

PS. I once tried to outsource our YouTube content to a YouTube sanctioned YouTubewiki I'd registered and do a reciprocal deal with YouTube. After some initial interest their lawyers killed the idea. This would have generated revenue for ED -something half of you fags don't even take into consideration; this shit doesn't pay for itself...not even close. I only mention this because one option to shut you morons up would be to 'give' Wikichan (if we could even regain their trust) all our chan content and focus on the other shit.

We would no doubt lose traffic but most of you don't care about that do you? Cos ED is funded by magic lulz baking elves. How many of you bitching have donated even $3 Canadian (as one kid did)?

--OldDirtyMudkips 13:33, 25 August 2007 (CDT)

typical chanfag lololol --Blargh 00:32, 26 August 2007 (CDT)
- typical banhammer victim lolololo --Mr Memey Meme Meme...The Human Meme (later than the above) (CDT)

The best solution is stop newfags access to ED completely, make them unable to see anything here. ED is a nice idea but its too public and open now that this thing is getting more popular, either ED changes or ED dies or the problem wont be solved.

--rKos

Alrighty then...you stand at the gate and check their *fag ID and make sure only the oldfags and the futurefags get in. I'll be at the bar if you need me. --& 18:35, 25 August 2007 (CDT)

simple, make user registration the way it used to be. that would cut back on vandalism, faggotry and so on. the problem isnt 4chan, its a bunch of people on 4chan, and various other sites. faggotry from the internet has come into our beloved ed, and shat all over everything. retards didnt JUST start coming here, in fact one of the people who caused a deal of this mess has been a longtime user of ed, or at least #ed. we need less serious buisness on the site and on irc, i know that is ironic considering the nature of this page. again, people from 4chan writing about memes is not a bad thing by any means, i myself came here from 4chan, its people from the internet bringing faggotry in, or, alternately shitting on everything. i could care less about "article quality" or anything like that, as that in and of itself is pretty faggy, we do need to go through and clean up a lot of the stub articles though. in summation, MAY THE LULZ LIVE FOREVER --Theburk 19:38, 25 August 2007 (CDT)

The Whining

i agree with this to an extent, but, what people are missing is that this isnt OUR site, this is sherrods site, she takes the legal shit so we dont have to. and lately a lot of people have been acting like retards and fagging up the place with serious buisness and retardation. ed is not 4chan, m00t may put up with that shit, but i cant expect anyone else to. m00t dosent have hundreds of fags screaming lawsuit every other day, or dmca's coming in a constant stream. i can no imagine the burden this site must be on the owners and operators. but it is our duty to lessen the flow of shit coming in. no more dox, no more shit, this site is the only thing the lulz have left, the gnaa is dead, bantown is in ruins, and now fags are fucking with ed. a lot of the n00bs come in and shit on everything, and you wouldnt go into someones house in real life and shit on their carpet and not expect them to get pissed. ed is lulz, and while lulz arent serious buisness, ed itself is. lawsuits are, and harrasment from the people who are supposed to be the users is too and shouldnt be tolerated. thats about all i have to say. --Theburk 21:27, 24 August 2007 (CDT)

u r rite. Sherrod and ajt do a hell of a lot for us and for the lulz. What can we do? janus zeal de su contribs
Things seemed a lot better when account creation was only done by sysops on a per contact basis. Maybe that should be enacted again as a stop gap measure to get things under control again. Lateral 22:06, 24 August 2007 (CDT)
- Werd Lateral...we are discussing this on the admin list as we speak. Fear not...sing after me..."At first I was afraid I was petrified..."

--OldDirtyMudkips 22:55, 24 August 2007 (CDT)

- I support this too, for what it's worth. I go on internets hiatus for a while and everything goes to shit D: I hope everything gets sorted out soon; much love to ajt and sherrod! -Cirrus 02:41, 25 August 2007 (CDT)
I dont know. I emailed a few admins to gain an account before but that didnt work, so signed up for an account during the "sign up yourself" days. Though on another note, stuff has gone down hill. Laterly alot of people have even been signing up just to bitch about other people. I thought there was a rule some where that states you cant write articles on people you know outside Ed, or the inernet in general. Though l'm glad this is been brought to our attention before its to late. --Jericho 22:22 25 August 2007

IAWTPokchu, chanfags are ruining our site. I mean, good people can come from 4chan, but they're few and far between. The vast majority of them are like the vast majority of 4chan ie senseless faggotry. 4chan and the other assorted chans work fine on their owns, the problem is that chanfags go to other sites and forget that it isn't 4chan. Thanks to centuries of being blamed for /b/'s shit, ebaums now thinks it's part of the trollosphere (lol), so we're getting fags from there who are even lower quality than a genuine channer. That's the main problem facing ED IRC. The main problem on the site is a combination of the above with a bunch of butthurts. ED's visibility these days is attracting butthurts and people with hueg vendettas to use the site as some kind of dueling ground. This is unfunny and lame. The site is for internet drama that matters. I don't write articles about the guy who honked his car horn at me earlier, because it's not funny and nobody but me would give a shit. But that's what these assholes are doing with the site. They're building slums in ED, and like slums, the only way to fix these vast swaths of shitty articles is to get rid of them or change them completely. I think we need to go back to requiring people to come to IRC for a trial by fire before they can get an account. It would also stop b& butthurts making new accounts so easily. -- Mori 10:52, 25 August 2007 (CDT)

I agree, ED was becoming a fucking wikichan kind of shit, and this has to stop. *chans do have their place as the source of Truly Epic Lulz (you gotta agree, there IS some serious lulz among all the retardedness) but they shouldn't have the same attention than say, DA, LJ and all those other lokcows. However, changing things because of lolsuit threats?!? I think the only changes must be towards furthering the lulz. Lulz stays, anti-lulz goes. Lolsuits are irrelevant.--Tannark 11:55, 25 August 2007 (CDT)

ED exists to catalogue Internets, drama, and lulz. Bad, old, forced and legit memes are part of this and as just valid as much of the DA, LJ, YT and other site specific faggotry. I find most of the DeviantART and the YouTube crap to be just as facepalm. The problem is people editing who don't have the skills, lulz, wiki, or a basic command of the English language. That many of these come from the chans is part of the problem but -in a way- that is also worth documenting (as we are here). --OldDirtyMudkips 13:17, 25 August 2007 (CDT)

I think a lot of the problem is that we're allowing articles to exist that really shouldn't be here at all. We've all seen the pointless articles that basically amount to 'LOL dis heer guyz a furee' without any actual drama or humor being attached to it. Sherrod and Co. do a lot for us by maintaining this site's existence, and I think it's up to us a userbase to give them some sort of reason to make sure they keep doing that by being responsible for maintaining the sort of quality we'd like to see around here. I think we need to be a lot more aggressive in trying to get rid of shitty articles, and making sure that the articles that we do want to keep are of a decent quality. I know that there's a pretty decent sized portion of the userbase that's just starting up college again (I'll admit to being one of that group) but I think if we seriously all just spent 5-15 minutes a day hunting through articles with the help of Random Page and making a real effort to point out the most flagrant faggoty articles then we'd probably be able to drag up the quality a hell of a lot. I think most of the real morons we've attracted probably aren't going to spend overly much time here, and probably won't check to see that their pet page against the mean kid who bullied them in high school has been deleted. So really I guess what I'm trying to say is that we just really all need to be responsible for making sure that ED continues to be the sort of awesome place that we all know it can be, and maybe should collectively put some effort into it. Gowain 14:13, 25 August 2007 (CDT)

Irony

I find the irony behind this hilarious, the drama is pathetic, as I was on IRC in the final hours.

I hope you realize everyone we've pissed off (read:alot) is laughing their balls off at our punny site drama and elitism (even though I agree the newfags are annoying, just ban them so they can't write articles and move on).

ED is better than this shitty shit. —The preceding comment was added by Pinworm45, who is too much of a fucking retard to sign his or her own posts. IT'S 4 TILDES (~), NOT ROCKET SCIENCE.

The 4 lines above me were written by a faggot. Son Kevin 00:53, 25 August 2007 (CDT)

Yeah but it is gloriously ironic. Somebody add it to irony. And someone start cataloguing the drama for an article ED Gets Pwnt By Irony:August 2007.

--OldDirtyMudkips 13:10, 25 August 2007 (CDT)

What I find ironic is you actually fuckin care about what other people say about us lol......

You don't think ED is above this then?

How can we possibly make fun of other forums and websites pathetic drama when we ourselves are not above it? --Pinworm45 00:56, 25 August 2007 (CDT)

We aren't above it, however sometimes the time comes when serious business is in order if we are to continue with our holy mission of the lulz. --Drunkenlazybastard 00:57, 25 August 2007 (CDT)
Fair enough, I agree the unfunny people with their "over 9000" are extremely annoying, but why not simply b& so they can't make articles? Shutting down IRC is akin to a typical myspace whore deleting her account because she can't take it anymore </3.--Pinworm45 01:02, 25 August 2007 (CDT)
- What I find ironic is you actually fuckin care about what other people say about us lol...... We archive lulz dipshit not sentiments about this site... I f you actually think we fuckin care about opinion you are wrong lol (*cough* 9/11 article, *ahem* V-tec just got kicked in yo, *wheeze* Chevy the training dog).... If you write nothing but lame-ass memes in a string to show off that you think that you sit at the /b/ cool kids table at lunch, then you can gtfo. And if there are more than 5 of you congregating or loitering in the same place ED reserves the right to b& you and your uncyclopedia friends. Lulz arent a commodity, they are a luxury.... It just so happens that we are the Ft. Knox of that shit. Search elsewhere on snugglenets, will you find a more fertile ground of lulz? No. You won't. So we aren't going to stand by some non-existent virtues you made up. We dont care. Go back to Wikipedia with your ethics and see if they will let you follow their rules and catalogue drama. Either that or go to Ultraviolet News Network and philosophize about the unlimited freedom you have there while tending to the 13 piece of shit articles they have/had there. Wiseblood 16:05, 25 August 2007 (CDT)
- The main problem with IRC was that there had been an influx of chanfags and newfags who contributed nothing to the site, or in many cases didn't even have an account. The ED IRC was originally meant for sysops to discuss matters pertaining to running the site, however it basically turned into #4chan. We are currently discussing what course of action to take. --Drunkenlazybastard 01:08, 25 August 2007 (CDT)
  - Why not password or invite only protect #ed then have a public channel on IRC?--Pinworm45 01:18, 25 August 2007 (CDT)
  - Even #4chan requires registration NINJA 13:16, 25 August 2007 (CDT)

I am however sick of seeing Furry articles. It seems like the only thing that's on the front page of ED anymore. Son Kevin 01:03, 25 August 2007 (CDT)

Agreed, have you looked at the furry series template recently? It's fucking bloated. I think some furry articles should stay, but honestly, considering how fucked up most furries are we could fill an entire site with JUST that as content. We should reserve making furry articles for those who go above and beyond the perverted drama whore call of duty. --Drunkenlazybastard 01:08, 25 August 2007 (CDT)
- Agreed, some can be funny like LittleMoon (more otherkin, same point applies) who claims beyond any doubt that she's a dragon, and is against homosexuality and pedophilia despite being 19 and writing homosexual pedophile stories and drawing Shota, but reading "hey guyz this guy likes to dress as an animal, lulz" over and over gets old. --Pinworm45 01:18, 25 August 2007 (CDT)
  - I think this one's easy... Make a few more articles along the lines of "YouTube Nobodies", such as "YouTube Goodbyes" (I'm thinking about supexcellency here, who feared Anonymous after getting threating calls. From guys with mexican accents. BTW, lives in Mexico City.), for stub-class content that doesn't need more than 2 or 3 rich lines. Or, if it's really funny, make a template for stubs in the spirit of {{notcrap}} to keep unfunny templates or additional text from being added. --Aghar 08:54, 25 August 2007 (CDT)
  - Wasn't there some talk of pay-to-view/post forums being in the works? Perhaps limit access to an IRC server to those registered on the forums? Bdsuxxx 07:53, 25 August 2007 (CDT)
    - Why dont we treat ALL furfags like the wastes of skin they are? Why favor some furfags over other furfags? By doing that, it just looks like they are using ED as another place to spread some more furry drama and take out revenge on their little furry enemies. I say any article that deals with a feud between furfags needs to go.Loldongz 21:06, 26 August 2007 (CDT)

I concur entirely

If ED continues down this slippery slope, we're going to turn out worse than Uncylopedia. I mean, we're not even allowed to post powerwords (WTF??) anymore, that's bad enough as it is. We don't need bitches coming from all corners of the internet to fag this place up.

That being said, I feel that as a proud contributor, I have not done my fair share for this website, and I am deeply sorry and regret any faggotry I may have caused either intentionally or inadvertently.

Coffee 01:12, 25 August 2007 (CDT)

Well, it has been against ED policy since '05 not to post power words ON SITE. That being said, it is ok to post a link to an off site place which has dox and powerword. If you want to help ED out with general stuff, but don't have any new material to write, you can help ED out by doing some OpenTasks. --Drunkenlazybastard 01:23, 25 August 2007 (CDT)

power words can be understandable, despite having no basis in lawsuits, I'm guessing ED gets served a lot, and even if they win (which they will), it still costs money to have a lawyer. Or perhaps I misunderstand.--Pinworm45 01:20, 25 August 2007 (CDT)
- We have never properly been sued, the closest we came was when purelily tried to file against us, but filled out the paperwork incorrectly. However, that being said, girlvinyl (the person who runs this site) does have to constantly deal with lots of shit to keep this running. --Drunkenlazybastard 01:23, 25 August 2007 (CDT)

Well, the question is whether ED is about documenting drama or creating it. I was under the impression it was the former, in which case it's totally logical to forbid dropping dox. Furthermore, internet drama and IRL drama are two different things. It never happened to me, but I'm sure it must be pretty tough to be harassed IRL. I mean it's fine to laugh at people for taking the internet too seriously, because well it's just the internet, but IRL is another matter. While it makes sense to say "Mr. XYZ should stop taking the internet so seriously and get a life... a little offence in an AIM convo? Big deal!", it's pretty ludicrous to say "Mr. XYZ should stop taking stuff so seriously... a few phone calls from strangers in the night? Big deal!". Real life is serious business, really. Clapaucius 05:03, 25 August 2007 (CDT)

We don't permit powerword for your own goddamn protection, and to save the site grief. You are responsible for your contributions, sure, but ED doesn't want to have to deal with legal shit that has only to do with a contributor. Ie, call someone's online handle a name, there's no damage. Slander someone under their real name, there might be. K E K E K E_{Talk to me} ^{Listen to me.} 22:47, 25 August 2007 (CDT)

I hope it imporves

i have gone thru this site many times learned the ways of the lulz, before I began typing. I hope that I am new I am not considered a newfag, as I am not much of a /b/tard and actually don't edit articles if I don't have anything funny to say. I agree though and have noticed a lack of lulz in the more recent article and hope the situation improves as people realize there not funny. In the mean time I Promise I will put effort into my articles and wont be unfunny and help fix the damages the newfags have made.

-insanet

Thank you for that sentiment. It's not so much of a problem with people being from 4chan and being /b/tards, so much as it seems that the majority of their user base are terrible at writing articles and just end up taking a shit all over ED. We appreciate the fact that you actually took the time to lurkmoar without jumping right in half assed. We are working on improving the the situation, hopefully this will be remedied. If you need any help with articles don't forget to read the style guide, check out articles that have been featured as articles of the now, or leave a question on mine or another sysop or respected contributors talk page. --Drunkenlazybastard 02:03, 25 August 2007 (CDT)

The same goes for me. I've only been an EDiot for about a year, but i've notice a descend in the hilarity of the new articles. I've done my lurking and only edited articles that I knew about or could add some thing useful/lulzy (ie, the gook article). I just hope these newfags don't ruin it for the rest of us just plain new guys. I'll do my part to make ED as good as it was when i first found it. For the lulz. -Kagemaru026 15:21, 25 August 2007 (CDT)

gg pokchu

I agree with the article. Chanfags are ruining this site tbh. also i spilled root beer on my shirt :( --Blargh 02:14, 25 August 2007 (CDT)

Lol, you need some ethnic cleansing brand bleach to get that kind of stain out of your whites ;) --Drunkenlazybastard 02:16, 25 August 2007 (CDT)

You're absolutely right. I started lurking a good while back, and ED was pretty epic then. Every article, even ones that would normally insult you, were funny as hell. Not anymore. But I noticed its not just the new content that's crap-tastic, a lot of funny, somewhat original, stuff being overwritten with stuff I'd expect from urban dictionary or Uncyclopedia, which is an atrocity in and of itself. Tito 02:21, 25 August 2007 (CDT)

unfunny memes

"Over 9000" and "an hero" basically replace earlier unfunny memes "at least 100", "last thursday", and "7/11". Ritegroic 03:19, 25 August 2007 (CDT)

All memes are fucking stupid. I would appreciate it if nobody used memes in their articles unless it's fucking necessary. --Blargh is now a meme 19:19, 25 August 2007 (CDT)

Happens to everyone

Something becomes too popular and there's a flood of new people. Then you get the people who came just before the flood complaining about how XXXX used to be good. I actually wouldn't mind if it went back to people asking to get an account created. The other option is to try and teach the new people how to be lulzy. Seriously though, No more furry articles? They're all the same and they're fucking gay. I'm starting to think that furries are just doing shit so they could get their own articles. EDIT: One of the biggest concerns for ED is that we don't get elitists. I fucking hate those faggots. Been on a website for 3 months and think they're top shit. Son Kevin 03:21, 25 August 2007 (CDT)

I've noticed that a lot of them when they get an article are like LOL TOOK YOU GUYS LONG ENOUGH. Whether they are actually amused or trying to cover up their butthurt is debatable. --Drunkenlazybastard 03:28, 25 August 2007 (CDT)
- It's totally fucking gay, seriously. I'm sick of reading about furries. They are getting wayyyy too much attention. I think they love the attention. While some may get butthurt, I think others crave it. I think we need to stop feeding the furries. EDIT:If my spelling is off and/or grammar is off, it's because I never went to bed and I'm fucking tired.Son Kevin 03:33, 25 August 2007 (CDT)
  - New LJ Killer coverage will have to wait until the next recession. It's amazing to watch what people will do once they can't afford medication. --Aghar 09:04, 25 August 2007 (CDT)

Enough is enough!

I have had it with these motherfucking channers on this motherfucking site! Everybody strap in. I'm about to rape some fucking accounts.

Anyway, a-fucking-men to that, Pokchu. Repeating memes does not constitute humour, and too much of ED is redundant and/or unfunny. And, as another EDiot noted, there are too many fucking furries. Incredibly detailed descriptions coming in on the front page, case after case of "drama" involving a poop-eating dragon who allegedly copied another poop-eating dragon's art... seriously, WTF? Furries are trash, okay, let's have an article about how they are trash. But let's NOT have eight thousand and ninety-nine SPECIFIC articles about eight thousand and ninety-nine furries who are ALL trash anyway. I mean who reads that shit, apart from fucking furries? Does anyone seriously give a fuck about a screencap demonstrating beyond doubt that a 30-year-old virgin, who likes to pretend he's a winged zebra, has TOLD A LIE ONLINE? Stop the presses.

In fact, it's pretty much the same with *chan memes. Is it necessary to have a huge page, complete with a gallery of image macros, every time some retard finds a string of 3 random words vaguely amusing? Just focus on the general principles, and have a few examples to illustrate. The meme page is cool, because it seems to discuss how memes work and stuff (I know jack shit on this subject, though), but efforts should go towards enriching it rather than posting meme after meme in a string of epic unfunnyness.

Sorry for the lecture, I'm not that much of a contributor but strongly feel ED has good potential and much of it goes to waste. People confusing trolling and spamming/ruining/posting dox. People thinking ED will earn them some e-recognition. People being fucking faggots. Time for a lolocaust amirite?

Clapaucius 04:50, 25 August 2007 (CDT)

Then we'd have what? Maybe 3 Articles? spasm 08:59, 25 August 2007 (CDT)
- GEE YEAH BECAUSE IT'S NOT LIKE 98% OF OUR CONTENT IS YOUTUBE DEVIANTART OR LJ RELATED. OH WAIT IT IS MAYBE WE DON'T HAVE TO RIM 4CHAN'S ASS ALL THE TIME --Blargh 00:28, 26 August 2007 (CDT)
I know what you mean, ED is not an ocean of piss. But the other side to that is we inherit a lot of memes and stuff from /b/ that actually are funny, and if we don't hold some kind of gratitude to Anon like we have in the past, ED becomes a meme stealer, like gaia or lolcats.NINJA 11:04, 25 August 2007 (CDT)
- Shut up Clapaucius. --OldDirtyMudkips 13:01, 25 August 2007 (CDT)

lol lets make a wiki site...

... and then bitch about the obvious flow of retards (including myself). lol we didnt see that coming!

I LIKE THE WAY YOU THINK SIR. If you'd only to learn how to sign your posts I wouldn't call you a faggot. lol.

--OldDirtyMudkips 12:58, 25 August 2007 (CDT)

actin liek yo shit dont stank...

like you guys have never tried to "x"-out a picture of a program window.

More Baleetplz?

Instead of trying to fix up crappy articles that the newfags create, should we just add the baleetplz template? --Wilds 05:38, 25 August 2007 (CDT)

- I second this question. I've seen shit loads of articles about either furries, or tartles with at most 4 sentences. The users they're about aren't even worth it! Its either 13 year olds trying to be cool by making their own page, or someone butthurt over some furfag stealing their ideas. GogglesTan 06:17, 25 August 2007 (CDT)

agree on this one, since i've created my account here, ive seen a stream of crappy stubs being added on an hourly basis. this fucktardia has to stop.--CNasTadpole 06:24, 25 August 2007 (CDT)

- mecha hitler is not a stub damn you its hilarious! ur just jelous cause ur jewish and black.
I don't click the random page button anymore because I'm afraid of being traumatized by another crappy article. ;_______; DO IT.跳痛黑鬼陰莖 (throbbing nigger cock) 08:50, 25 August 2007 (CDT)

IRC or .com?

Are you saying the problem is with the newfags on IRC, the ones writing the shitty articles, or both? Many of the chanfags were brought here by blatant advertising from us (Sorry ODB :D), so I don't know what ED was expecting. I think alot of the other people have the right idea by banning people for faggotry, not just deleting fucking everything. Tekjester 08:01, 25 August 2007 (CDT)

Tekjester, advertising on 4chanarchive has nothing to do with it. Like I've said elsewhere on this TL;DR page, /b/ is suffering the same newfaggery that ED is, it just 'hurts' us moar since shit don't automatically vanish like it does on /b/. If anything /b/ is sending newfags over to ED to learn shit that they keep fagging up /b/ with. Like: "plz post Fox News link" will get you "just go fucking look it up on ED n00b."

We also want traffic as it drives up our alexa ranking and enables us to get 'better' advertising so we can sustain a site that continues to grow.

--OldDirtyMudkips 12:55, 25 August 2007 (CDT)

The chanfags

Sup guiz, real life Ninja here. Being a chanfag myself, I can't say I don't feel responsible. I came here around the time the b/-day article was made, and I think that holds true for many of my /b/rethren as well, which would mean today marks around 1 year of chanfaggotry at ED. We might not notice it, but that article was pretty high traffic at the time and introduced a lot of people here, as did our constant association with the chans afterwards.

Most of the really bad shit comes not from the /b/tards, who harbor good pron and some funny shit, but from the /i/nfidels, who make articles for the purpose of propagating raids. This truly started after /b/-day, while 7chan and the rest of the /i/ntifada were gaining momentum. Most anon can't edit for shit, but I've tried to keep the articles clean and stuff. I think the best thing to do on this subject would not be to delete fucking everything that isn't pure internets, but to make sure we are doin it right with how we document the lulz. srsly, if we just deleted every new article created that didn't have a category, that would be a whole lot of stupid shit off our hands. Also if we disassociated with the /b/tards who think ED is just another chan, we can pick and choose how much of their drama we want to pick up. wikichan should be the place for chan faggotry, not ED.

But besides all that shit, just remember that this is the summer. During the summer all the underage B& from around the US come online looking for funny shit and end up DOSing Ebaumsworld waiting for the next numa numa horsecock, go to all the porn forums looking for zomg pamela anderson, and swarm 4chan with their newfaggotry. The way it ends up is by September they all go back to school and the ocean of piss is cleansed of their shit. Don't stress about it now, things will work themselves out.

tl;dr: ED is not an ocean of piss NINJA 10:45, 25 August 2007 (CDT)

I'm with you /b/rother. The '*chanfags' are not the be all and end all of ED's problems, just a handy scapegoat. Remember, /b/ is suffering from the same influx of cancerous newfags as ED, SA, EB's and all lulz dedicated sites. As anything becomes moar popular, it exponentially becomes moar diluted with piss.

We need to focus on what to do as opposed to whining about the culprits. moot has chosen (wisely IMO) to let /b/ /b/ all that it can /b/ -for the nature of random is that random does what random wants; random happens. The AIDS in /b/ is logical.

At ED we can cap the faggotry but since our job is to document Internets phenomena such as this faggotry, we're stuck with it. The 4chan article is the #4 most viewed page on ED. Others in the Top 10 include IMMA CHARGIN MAH LAZER, pedophilia, 16 year old girl and rape, which I'm guessing can all be found in /b/tards bookmarks.

Now STOP WHINING ABOUT CHANFAGS AND COME UP WITH SOME SOLUTIONS. I favour closed account creation where an EDitor has to go the extra mile to be part of ED. We had far less faggotry all around when n00bs had to ask a Sysop for an account. Either that or have captcha be an English exam. --OldDirtyBtard<-Sysop 12:34, 25 August 2007 (CDT)
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I was going to make a thread earlier to ask anon not to be newfags on ED, but now it looks like they want to make sexy time with our bandwidth. NINJA 14:10, 25 August 2007 (CDT)

- - I agree somewhat with what they are saying on 420chan. We should not spell out memes the way we do. We should write them as a parody and not as what they literally are. slowpoke is too literal with the memes and tells what it is and where it came from. candlejack is slightly parodical and keep things ambigu

—The preceding comment was added by Ninja, who is too much of a fucking retard to sign his or her own posts. IT'S 4 TILDES (~), NOT ROCKET SCIENCE.

I suggest we go back to closed account creation and require people to write a lulzy account request haiku before we let them have one - Mori 10:17, 26 August 2007 (CDT)

Holocaust Proposal

TL;DR: KILL NEWFAGGERY WITH SCREENING PROCESS. Dr_Jihad here, I completely agree With what you all are saying, but isn't it ED that's the problem and not the IRC? I understand if newfags are running allover the IRC but that's why you kick them on the first notice of newfaggery. But back to the topic at hand. I think we need to have a Holocaust style wiping out of the newfags. If people want to hang in the IRC I say let em but if they want to write, I think it would be a good Idea to make them first submit a sample of writing and then judge them from there. MontezumazRev 11:16 AM, 25 August 2007. (CDT)

We need people to edit things at some rate. If we are too exclusive then activity will drop too low. But I'm always in the mood for genocide NINJA 11:24, 25 August 2007 (CDT)
Honestly, I'd agree with the idea of going back to screened accounts - hell, I had to get screened before I joined up, same with AdriFii. ED didn't seem to have a deficiency of articles or lulz back then either, due to account screening. If anything, the lulz took a bit longer to come out, but they were epic and well written.-- Cayde

DevianTART

I completely agree with this address and as someone else said, I hope I'm not one of the newfags being discussed since I've been here two months. With that having been said, I don't think we need to focus just on the *chan articles. A lot of them do suck balls, but there has also been an explosion of unfunny attack-based DevianTart articles. That category has seemingly exploded in popularity since ED came back and a lot of those articles are very serious fail and basically consist of one butthurt 16 year old tartlet making an attack article on some other 16 year old Tartlet. I brought this up with Sherrod and I think she agrees, and she charged me with trying to make the Deviant Art articles better, but it's hard to polish a turd. They almost all fit the format of "Tartlet is a failure and a furfag who does crappy art and is a sick fuck." Simply being a furfag who does crappy art does not a quality ED article make. Fewer of these Tartlets, in my opinion, actually create drama or lulz. What's more, going into some of these articles, the edit history reveals that these articles were written by other Tartlets who have had articles written about them and are fail like User:Kikikiti. I think that the Deviant Art series needs to be pared down significantly to articles written by trusted quality writers like User:MissEchelon. --Philaster 12:24, 25 August 2007 (CDT)

I agree with this. Only about 25% of all deviantart related articles are actually worth of keeping. We could also blame the public account registration for this, because any butthurt can easily come here, keep creating accounts to erase his/her articles, and bring his buddies along. AngusNitro41 is a good example of what I'm talking about.
IAWTC. In fact I spoke to pokchu about this just a few days ago. I said that the DA template can be shortened just back to DA, rather than DA A-L, M-Z, etc. Open account creation also needs to be shut down and needs to be ran the same way. Most of the accounts made were for butthurt faggots, trying to erase their articles. I mean it did let some potential in (yours truly), but it's a small percentage. --Fiz 13:25, 25 August 2007 (CDT)
Hey guys I heard some asspatting was going on in this thread. May I join? Anyway, I agree with pretty much all the opinions on this page, even the ones that contradict the other ones. I ain't been on ED:IRC in months, but even back then all the newfags were sucking major penis. I SALUTE AT THIS ADDRESS TO THE STATE. ♥MissEchelon 03:11, 26 August 2007 (CDT)

I would suggest limiting account creation, and send applications to email, have two or three members of the staff reviewing them, and approving or not. The applications should consist of desired username, password, and answers to questions "What is your purpose in ED?" and "How can you make of ED a better place?". It can be an annoying task, but keeps the butthurts and leet speakers away. All I have to say, for now. --Illusione 13:06, 25 August 2007 (CDT)

I'm not sure I'm in favor of an application process because it might make ED too much srs bsns. What I think instead is that you should get three chances to write a funny article. If you write three articles that are fail, you Get banned faggot for being unfunny. It takes some people awhile to warm up to what we're about and to learn to be funny, so I think there should be some leeway, but if you are seriously unfunny, you don't belong here. You could always petition a sysop if you got banned and want to later appeal.--Philaster 13:29, 25 August 2007 (CDT)
- Yes. Being banned for unfunny. I like that. But I think simply having people request accounts is better than an application process, since it shows they're willing to go the extra step. An application process though is excessive, just to be able to edit on a wiki.Pokchu--- 13:59, 25 August 2007 (CDT)
- I'm not sure about that. It's better to remove them right at the beggining before they can even get the chance to edit or make a new article. But, we have placed our suggestions here, now it's up to the big heads to come read this, and think of a solution. --Illusione 13:38, 25 August 2007 (CDT)
- Hamtaro's Theory NINJA 15:01, 25 August 2007 (CDT)

MissEchelon was kind enough to help me in compiling this list of DA pages that we can easily lose, and there are a LOT of them. We've gotten a lot of DA faggots since ED came back who think ED is their personal army, and the number and quality of DA pages reflects that. --Philaster 17:40, 27 August 2007 (CDT)

IRC SHUTDOWN != ED CLEANSING

NONE OF THIS MAKES SENSE, HOW DOES SHUTTING DOWN THE IRC STOP CHAN FAGS FROM RUINING ED? THIS IS A BUNCH OF BULLSHIT IMO. THE #ED CHANNEL HAD ALREADY BEEN SHUTDOWN. THE #ITFA WAS NOT #ED AND THEREFOR DER DER DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB ETC ETC ETC. --Cho0b 15:14, 25 August 2007 (CDT)

IAWTC. We need ED IRC if we plan on fixing the wiki NINJA 15:43, 25 August 2007 (CDT)

- 1. ed used to be invitation only and you had to earn it. If and when we spark it up again it will return to being a privilege. chanfags didn't ruin #ed, it was a bunch of fucking retards who didn't have -nor even want- an ED account. They'd lurk on #ed fagging up the place and sending the real EDiots ducking for cover in other #rooms. Not cool. End of story. --OldDirtyMudkips 16:16, 25 August 2007 (CDT)

- Ninja: Maybe we need IRC to clean up the wiki... Or maybe we just need a really large can of Clean The Crap Out. There are ways to send messages amongst others beyond the User_talk pages. --Aghar 16:33, 25 August 2007 (CDT)

- - You guys are seriously retarded if you believe fags on IRC ruined ED. New fags on IRC scared ED regs off to other channels? Even if that were true, who the fuck cares? If someone rages enough about some stupid shit that happens on IRC then why don't you make an article about it and stop crying? --Cho0b 21:12, 25 August 2007 (CDT)

- - - Why don't you write a fucking article yourself, n00b? K E K E K E_{Talk to me} ^{Listen to me.} 23:13, 25 August 2007 (CDT)

I AGREE

THE ABOVE COMMENT IS AS CLOSE TO THE TRUTH AS ANYTHING EVER WILL BE. --Cho0b 15:27, 25 August 2007 (CDT)

Because even our IRC was polluted by newfags like you jewing the place up. --Drunkenlazybastard 15:40, 25 August 2007 (CDT)\
Yeah, what the hell, go look at your contributions page,Cho0b. --Jericho 10:29 26 August {EST}
Yeah, like this is my real ED account. rofl. What does it matter anyway? Shit, I remember ED before any of YOU NEW FAGS. --Cho0b 21:09, 25 August 2007 (CDT)
- You have never done anything on the site. You connect from a dsl account, and none of your IPs match those of anyone else. Translation: You don't know shit. KEKEKE_{Talk to me} ^{Listen to me.} 23:19, 25 August 2007 (CDT)
  - Behold the power of CheckUser!--Quit _{or I'll use these} ^{your whining} 23:23, 25 August 2007 (CDT)
    - Behold the power of proxies and shell accounts/owning your own servers. Derp. Maybe I don't want to get involved with all this drama bullshit under my regular moniker. Kekekeke etc etc etc. --Cho0b
      - Behold your excellent work in finding three proxies on the same SBC DSL IP range. And I am certain that when you created your account five days ago, it was for the sole purpose of editing this talk page. Or, perhaps I am incorrect, and you actually OWN the SBC servers which provide you access to the internets. K E K E K E_{Talk to me} ^{Listen to me.} 00:05, 26 August 2007 (CDT)
      - Uh huh.--Quit _{or I'll use these} ^{your whining} 23:39, 25 August 2007 (CDT)

Whoops

Disregard all this, I suck cocks Kakama5 20:44, 25 August 2007 (CDT) READ THIS: >Sure /b/ (and ED by association) sucks right now, but that's what happens when shit gets popular. But like most 'fads', when the next bandwagon comes along, the newfags will bail and jump on it, hopefully returning that which they stunk up to it's former glory.

<3 /b/rother.

--OldDirtyMudkips 23:16, 25 August 2007 (CDT)

Tired of this shit.

Seriously. Grow a pair and be funny or I will ban the fuck out of you. Support Joseph Evers you ungrateful little fucks. _ARAPE SPIDER _APPROACHES! 15:48, 25 August 2007 (CDT)

I got all inspired reading this whole page, can i mail UK cash money to EDRAMA LLC. c/o 833 West Buena Ave #1207 Chicago IL 60613? Or does it have to be checks? Adjective Noun 16:58, 25 August 2007 (CDT)
- My understanding is that yes you can email UK cash monies to that address. Leave a message on ajt's talk page for confirmation of this.--Drunkenlazybastard 17:03, 25 August 2007 (CDT)

New to ED

And I already understand how horrible this shit is. Hoping to start making some Lulz inducing articles myself in the future.. Vathu 16:13, 25 August 2007 (CDT)

ED is a good collection of "What's Going On, Internet?" It's difficult to start a new article on something or someone. To me, ED has a lot of examples of what not to do in an Internet situation. Contributing to that end is a challenge. I would like to make a good article for the first time, so I should still be lurking (maybe finding a good example from another source). --Fusiontek 19:39, 25 August 2007 (CDT)

I registered my account on ED only a few weeks ago and I've been lurking since (some might recognize my name from IRC). The biggest challenge for me is finding a subject to write about. --Syraxis 20:50, 25 August 2007 (CDT)

I always feel I can recognise lulz far better than I can produce it myself. So I lurk moar and lurk moar and wait for an opportunity to help something. It's just a pity the newfags don't get that. Tormsen 21:50, 25 August 2007 (CDT)

I was a dumbass newfag once

I came here as nothing but an attention whoring 16-year-old girl to write an article about myself. Looking back, I'm pretty fucking embarrassed, and I should be. But many months have passed since then. And I've learned that ED is not your own personal drama showcase, nor is it a place to showcase your enemy's drama for revenge (and I was planning on doing that.. I won't say for who... but I know better now). It's not a place to praise or put down a certain band/TV show/movie for the sake of it. And it's not a *chan by any means, even though the chans are a huge source of internet drama. And I agree with the others who say that we don't need an article for every fucking furry or TARTlet out there. Of course furries are crazy. Of course TARTlets are pretentious. We don't need a million articles that are all the same. Articles about those who have crossed the line, like Zeriara, are pretty much all what's needed. I know now that ED is not my personal army, nor is it the place to spread my hate on a certain sheep-fucking kiwi Pokemon fan. If I feel like writing some random shit, I do it on my userpage. But I've learned not to clog up ED with sitty articles about nothing. So in summary... these newfags better learn like I did or GTFO. --Dr. Strangelurk 16:50, 25 August 2007 (CDT)

Truth --Drunkenlazybastard 17:04, 25 August 2007 (CDT)
I understand, I'm learning things rather quick, but I'm having difficulty understanding how someone who insults me and such gets away with it and when I retaliate with simple things such as "I'm not gay." I then get kicked a number of times and then banned from the server. I have never been to such a place infested with mean, uncaring people. Although, the only person who seemed rather nice was the Sysop, Drunkenlazybastard And to him I would like to thank to being so kind to me. Vathu 17:10, 25 August 2007 (CDT)
- That's how we roll son, our IRC follows the tradition of bantown, kicking = love and respect, banning = you're a cunt. Don't take insults personally, especially from blargh, because he's always an asshole. XD --Drunkenlazybastard 17:15, 25 August 2007 (CDT)
- SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU WEEABOO JUDAIC KIKE GOBLIN GOD I FUCKING HATE YOU VATHU YOU ARE THE FUCKING REASON ED IS GETTING ALL SHITTY --Blargh 17:19, 25 August 2007 (CDT) PS GET BANNED FAGGOT
  - You're awfully funny. I'm sorry for being a newfag, I learn quickly. No worries from me to you from now on, unless you wish to keep trolling me on the account of one mistake I made today. Vathu 17:28, 25 August 2007 (CDT)
    - Don't mind Blargh. Everyone hates him, thats why his template looks like shit. He is the village idiot. _ARAPE SPIDER _APPROACHES! 18:04, 25 August 2007 (CDT)
      - Think of Blargh as an IRL Cartman. --OldDirtyMudkips 18:18, 25 August 2007 (CDT)
        Eh, Blargh's all right. He's just going through some tough times or something. Once he gets away from the Nazi thing and realizes that Christian Monarchism is the only righteous form of government, he'll be a mighty warrior for Civilization. — Plymouth Belvedere 18:38, 25 August 2007 (CDT)
        WORLDWIDE FASCIST THEOCRACY > CHRISTIAN MONARCHISM --Blargh 18:51, 25 August 2007 (CDT) ps christ is lord
        Blargh is alright if you're not any part of a minority =p --Some Kind Of Cunt 18:59, 25 August 2007 (CDT)

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_ARAPE SPIDER _APPROACHES! 19:57, 25 August 2007 (CDT)

ya blargh is cool, he just gets upset easily. --Theburk 20:58, 25 August 2007 (CDT) PS HILLARY CLINTON IN 08 FOR THE LULZ

REIP #ED

In a way I'm sorry to see #ed go. I had a lot of fun there. On the other hand, it was a tremendous waste of time, and I must admit it was being overrun by people with nothing funny to say. Plus adminning it had to be a giant pain in the ass.

Anyway, farewell to #ed. I'll still contribute to ED when I have time (and, hopefully, something funny to add).

Plymouth Belvedere 17:46, 25 August 2007 (CDT)

Yeah, I actually spent more time in #ed than I did making and editing shit on here, because I really didn't have any idea what the fuck was funny. Still don't to be honest. What I'm saying is, fuck the people who can't figure out that they don't know what's funny and go ahead and make articles that suck as a result. Wiggin 20:25, 25 August 2007 (CDT)

...I'm not what reasons were given for the IRC closing down, except for the acceptance of this incredible surprise that ED is a little more popular than it has been usually, and people are behaving like idiots, neither of which are satisfactory reasons for its closure. I don't mention that as I'm disappointed, but that it probably damages EDs reputation. Literally the fist time I logged on, everyone was getting kicked off, then it shut.

Everyone hates newfags, but what the fuck is a newfag? I've contributed basically fuck all, and won't make it into EDs history books, but I've been here for fucking ages now and I can respect why the site has developed such a cult following. So I'm well rehearsed in the fucktardness of ED politics and its fickleness, even if I don't personally get along with any admin personality. But I understand well enough that if I have nothing decent to contribute, then why fucking contribute at all. If I put something down its got to be equal or greater than average ED humour. Does that make me a newfag exactly. stfu newfag

What I like the most about ED is how an awful lot of EDers are waaaaaaay above average intelligence. Sure, there's psychos, nice guys, winners, losers, but more often than not the common element is that - they're smart! There's not many places on the internet you can work with such talented people who deliberately misguide themselves on drunken internet adventures and slanders. I think it takes a lot to appreciate the environment of nerdness and horror that ED tries so hard to create, and its best moments are when it lashes out as a portent of terrible irony. It's so effective that it has created its own signiture use.

People are fucktards and have disgraced ED by using dumb, cheap laffs humour. I don't think thats the real issue at stake. ED is truly merciless when it comes to self-revision. Maybe it's become too popular, I don't know. There's probably the issue about who ED 'belongs' to exactly, but just look at lol land. But there are probably people out there, enemies made, alliances drawn up against ED for some reason or another, that are determined to use the lulz against ED itself and poison it with shit.

I think if ED needs a 'solution', and feels troubled by a lack of identity, it needs to remember its roots and WHY THE FUCK it was created in the first fucking place, and it needs to concentrate on irony. If people are being idiots, fucking let them be idiots. I think it sucks the IRC is down for two reasons. The first is, I'd love to have talked to people that have created something that really makes me laugh. The second is, it's shooting itself in the foot, when it has to travel further to find more lulz, when it could probably easily extract them from its own IRC.

I think the move is also irrational. If it's a sign to say 'ZOMG, SERIOUS BUSINESS' then why not holocaust ED of shit users before going on a big IRC shutdown temper tantrum. But then again nothing in ED should be rational. Yah. Now I'm going to shut the fuck up. irocktoomuch

channel #ed was started in order to support and improve ED.com. #ed ceased to serve that purpose as most the users were total losers who barely knew what ED.com was, much less had accounts and actively made quality edits. #ed will come back, but it will be invite only and open only to users of the website who want to hang out and also discuss ED.com. It's not a temper tantrum, it's a new regime of "fuck with girlvinyl and enjoy the fascist consequences". I've decided to start living up to all the things people say about me. --girlvinyl 23:29, 25 August 2007 (CDT)
- Does that mean Tokyo will be spared once more?--Quit _{or I'll use these} ^{your whining} 23:33, 25 August 2007 (CDT)

I think making #ed an invitation-only channel is a great idea. And I'll still think so even if I'm not one of the ones who get invited. — Plymouth Belvedere 02:24, 26 August 2007 (CDT)

Hi girlvinyl, thanks for your reply. You're not being fascist at all, this is your site (I presume) and you can and will do whatever the fuck you want with it. I agree with Plymouth Belvedere, an IRC invite only would be a great idea. Maybe have an odd day or so when you remove the block and tell everyone in advance, so people take it more seriously. --Irocktoomuch

What

what

Rilriet 21:46, 25 August 2007 (CDT)

No, seriously. what

Rilriet 05:35, 26 August 2007 (CDT)

Newfags seek approval.

That's why so many of them use "over 9000" and "an hero" like it's still funny. They all want to feel like they're in on this great big inside joke. You can blame the joke for being appealing, or you can blame these people for thinking they're all the chosen ones who are entitled to help create the humor (or lulz). Which is where all the zealous, sensationalist furry reporting and repetition of old memes come from: they think it's what people want to read (because they never saw ED any other way), so they do it in a backward-ass attempt to get attention from the "big names" that could propel their flight to internet celebrity status. It's just a popularity contest. That's what happens when the general public is exposed to something like this. Everyone wants to be hot shit.

Even though I've been lurking here for over a year and x months, I've still made my share of stupid newfag mistakes, Pokchu will tell you all about it (though i'll bet he'd need a refresher because probably over 96% of new users have made stupid newfag mistakes that could have easily been prevented by lurking moar).

Out of courtesy and respect for people who have been real-life registered users and actually funny for way longer, I think new users should be at least strongly encouraged to stick to the "ways to help" list on TJC for few weeks before they attempt humor. It gives people a good frame of reference regarding what ED is supposed to be about, it gets people acquainted with wiki formatting, and it might cut down on a lot of bullshit that would otherwise be submitted if people don't goddamn know what they're doing. teleputty 22:26, 25 August 2007 (CDT)

Werd. The main problem is that 99% of newfags don't read the {{welcome}} before diving in. I know I didn't. CORRUPTION OF LOL!

--OldDirtyMudkips 23:24, 25 August 2007 (CDT)

- I did and I still fucked up, which renders my idea shit and a little tl;dr, as well as pompous. I reconsider: ED should pretend for about a month that Uncyclopedia is the standard in humor and maybe all the shitheads will head over there. Cheap and effective. teleputty 23:45, 25 August 2007 (CDT)
  - How about we just do some IRL genocide? They'll be funny when they are deadNINJA 00:11, 26 August 2007 (CDT)
    - Yeah. Well. Make sure you get whoever wrote the Kissprincess article first. It's the ultimate example of some butthurt little ugly kid trying to incite the nonexistent ED army against some girl who only made the mistake of being hot, which is a neatly-wrapped example of what Pokchu is yelling about. teleputty 02:09, 26 August 2007 (CDT)

wow. ugly.

girlvynl is fucking ugly, wtf. why is the center of lulz ran by a netwhore who sucks dicks for scripts? she also looks like she has some kind of spanish in her, which makes me want to deport her. i think its funny how this site talks to much HILARIOUS shit but remains oblivious to the fact that girlvynl is a woman on the internets. i think "woman on the internets" should be a show on fox (and/or an ED article), kind of like ally mc. beal, but only instead of fucking young and upcomming man-jews, the show should purley focus on the technical recources and knowledge girlvynl has access to simply by being a fucking girl and hanging out on IRC.

lul go snort a dong. MontezumazRev 05:26, 26 August 2007 (CDT)

Everyone has access to the same resources and information I do. They just choose not to use them. Google is pretty fucking amazing. And clearly you're a fucking idiot if you think installing wiki software and opening up editing is some kind of technical feat. People get all upset because I actually run shit on the fucking internet. Ooooh, I have moved beyond just posting and started my own website... why are you so fucking butthurt? Oh, right because no girls will talk to you in high school. :[ Awww. --girlvinyl 11:00, 26 August 2007 (CDT)
- I dunno about highschool, more like playschool. --Some Kind Of Cunt 12:47, 26 August 2007 (CDT)

in responce to girlvynl's sig...

quit fucking being ugly or i'll use deport you. —The preceding comment was added by And0r, who is too much of a fucking retard to sign his or her own posts. IT'S 4 TILDES (~), NOT ROCKET SCIENCE.

Enjoi ur ban ^_^ </3 --Drunkenlazybastard 03:59, 26 August 2007 (CDT)

so hard to get around that ban... which to me felt like a butthurt ban on your guys end. i apreciate the assumption of me being some kind of womanless fag, i assure you it is incorrect. but i can totally understand where the assumption came from, i myself am riddled with assumptions. the main one being that all women on the internets get free shit because they cyb0r some hax0r. to be honest you dont look THAT bad, your not "omg fuck me brad pitt" worthy, but its ok. your good looking enough to get you by. another thing i apreciate is the 1950's betty page look you got going on, i admire that you take intrest in historic american cultures/style even thoe you got some kind of spanish in you and are not of pure aryan western european decent (true american). the one thing that intrigue me the most is that as a woman you should be able to recieve whatever i dish out at you (including cocks) and not be a total mexican hippocrite and ban cry whenever sombody decides to test just how far the shit talking on ED can go.

I just don't get the blatant disrespect for girlvinyl either. I know it's ED. I know faggots try to enlarge their e-penises out of supposedly pwning people because they think it's edgy or funny. But it would be a lot funnier if girlvinyl actually went around with a huge ego and tried to get people to kiss her ass, which, as far as I can tell, she doesn't. So I don't understand what people get out of writing the preceding, because it just comes off as fail. --Philaster 11:42, 26 August 2007 (CDT)

i know you must defend your queen, but she does kind of go around thinking she is top-twat. dont get me wrong, i love this site, it is definatly the best site on the interwebs and im sure girlvynl has had her share of the lulz contribution. its just fucking funny to me and i must comment on how far a camwhore on the internets can go. havent you ever heard of a dean martin comedy roast?

OMG

Thank god, maybe ED won't be a fucking awful IRC-centric no-quality piece of crap now. I also forgot my password, hence this account :(-Df0x 05:24, 26 August 2007 (CDT)

Butthurt

I hope this whole things an unfunny troll; otherwise ED has turned into what it mocks. So much drama here. So much butthurt because it can't handle its subject matter. Its subject matter is trolls and the ensuing lulz; and now there's suprise that its attracted the interest of trolls?

What a load of faggotry. Zim 10:15, 26 August 2007 (CDT)

No, we're surprised that we've attracted such a load of unfunny people. Pokchu--- 10:36, 26 August 2007 (CDT)
- Zim has a point, ha ha. Although ED seems to have a lot of unfunny faggots trying to contribute to it, and every article is splattered with tenously inserted memes, the fact you've resorted to shutting the IRC channel and having a bit of a whinge, rather than making light and dealing with it, makes you look almost as bad as the subjects ED mocks. (Note: don't think I actually care much about this, I don't edit anything here, and I've never used the IRC channel - I just find the irony amusing.) --Lobo 11:25, 26 August 2007 (CDT)

Well, this was unexpected

And I was thinking of going on #ed someday :( But I do see what is being talked about here. Lots of the articles are basically clones of each other. I'm probably actually considered a newfag, having only been on here for a month, but still. Ranger 11:52, 26 August 2007 (CDT)

Same here, just when I thought I'd be checking out #ed, it goes down. But then I'm just a long time reader, I don't know anything about how wikis work, I never contributed nor really planned to (mainly cause my mother tongue isn't english and I'd make too many mistakes) and I only created an account here recently, pretty much on a whim. For me, #ed was a chance take a step further in my enjoying of the unbridled satire that's so characteristic of this site, and to get to chat with smart people who're able to wield irony and sarcasm in a funny way. They're all pretty rare qualities - especially to be found on internet nowadays - so it was conforting to know you had the possibility to interact with people who have a similar mindset. It's all about the sharing of the lulz I guess. Oh well, I guess I'll never know if I was misleaded about this IRC thing, but I'll definitely be watching how it unfolds. Grüt 14:59, 26 August 2007 (CDT)

Cheap Lulz and how they fuck with your colonal health

I agree with the rhetoric that most newfags are fucking everything up, but we really can't be too elitist about this. You know, that bullshit hipster "I WAS INTO XXXX BEFOAR IT WAS COOL LOLOLOLOLOL" attitude that makes you want to contract gonorrhea from an elderly crackhead prostitute so you can walk into Starbucks and put infected pus-piss in their Mocha Frap when they're not looking.

We were all newfags once, but immense faggotry on ED is unforgivable. *chan is not the be-all-end-all of lulz on the internet. I can prove it. Google "a dead goat fucked my mother happily". I did, and while I was disappointed that there were no exact search terms matching my criteria, or hawt MILF/Goat slash action, there is funny shit to be found. My point is, is that there is so much drama and lulz everywhere, and the chans are only a small part of it. Though they contribute greatly. --Nate 15:10, 26 August 2007 (EDT)

Rule Number 43

"The more beautiful and pure a thing is - the more satisfying it is to corrupt it " I came to encyclopedia as an oasis to drama IRL and and on the internet. It was funny and clever and I loved it. I even felt it necesary to write a shitty article my self (see garrys mod). But I have also noticed that we enjoy corrupting things i.e. harry potter, bayhorsecrew ETC. Let me ask you this encyclopedia dramatica what makes you so different from everyone else? Why should you be immune to torture and mockery not different from the listed above? Sure we think that ED is cool and all but how do we look through the eyes of the mocked? We look like assholes. Let me conclude with one more question: When ED falls wouldnt it be ironic if we became butthurt, since we corrupt everything else?

Crapfully Yours -V

I don't know about everyone else, but I'm not feeling butthurt right now. At this point though, the declining quality of ED needs to be addressed. As a result of this article, the amount of articles coming in has thinned, and the quality of the articles that do come through is much more substantial than those we were getting a few days ago. It's perfectly fine if you want to mock us, write satires, ridicule us. That's no problem. The only issue we have is when people try to DDoS the site, because in fact they're butthurt over a misconception I wrote about people who browse the *Chans. If anyone is exemplifying butthurt today, it's anyone who wanted to cripple ED, over a couple of comments that were taken the wrong way. That's my stance, anyway. Pokchu--- 15:18, 26 August 2007 (CDT)

Hello and Goodbye - again

Well isn't this pretty pathetic? This is my umpeenth incarnation here on ED - I have a dreadful memory for logins and passwords - but I have really enjoyed everything that girlvinyl and her crew have put together on ED over the last weeks, months and so on. So a load of n00bs turned up and weren't funny...so educate them. I assist in the running of another Wiki (guess which one?) and I came here moons ago in search of some good laughs. I will continue to do so. Oh - and how much did this cunt fail on my user page? No wonder ED is going bottom up. FFS. Thanks anyway guys. Avatar 16:40, 26 August 2007 (CDT)

Very well.

I'm new in ED, but not IRL. I know that when you have so much shit in your hands, and so many people who want to take a sniff and play with it, you need clear rules and a firm direction of things. This is the internets. It's like China. They talk about human rights in China, but that's a fantasy, because there is a bazillion people there, of multiple ways of thinking.

I've read of fascism here, but this is a site which anyone can edit, and fascist rules would turn ED into something like Conservapedia. But you've been too lenient with unfunny articles and the sort. Maybe a reworking of things here, a new categorization of articles, and a clearer set of rules, delimiting the scope of ED. Richard Dreyfuss 22:29, 26 August 2007 (CDT)

LOL

BAAAAWWWWW!!! Scuttlebutt 09:16, 29 August 2007 (CDT)

Well.

Any change so far? Any action by the staff?

this page is unfunny

well that took a while to read... as for the AddresstotheState, i pretty much agree. shame IRC has gone, even tho i hadn't hung around for months (maybe i saw this coming), i lurked on IRC once recently after ED rose again under a sockname (as i am too much on an IRC spastic to know that registering the nick would work) and it was basicaly blargh holding court over about 30 or so unknown (to me) users.

anyways, not much else to say except i am fucking glad user account creation seems to be fucked. this invite IRC sounds like a good idea - although i will prob not be able to work out how the fuck it works (see aforementioned spasticity / combined with my liking of Chatzilla==banned). IRC was very def useful to drop into to say --- "this is happening!!! sysop plz ban" or "how does this be workin?".

for those that strive to make ED great - may you be blessed, for those that make ED shit plz fuck off soooooon.

the above really was a worthless addition to this talk page, but fuck me i had read a lot and felt it i deserved a contribution.

◄ € Zenophile ﮚ ► æ ◄ Ǽ Talk ► 20:34, 19 September 2007 (CDT)

So...

whats the score on this now? or am i a late-fag? lol seriously i know im a tad late (just noticed this) but i totally agree and i do try to make all my edits worth something, i hope you all like Rose and Camellia :D im gonna do Battle Raper series too cus that just HAS to have an article. later!

Oh yeah and i agree with the overflow of unfunny newfags, try to limit them with out being over the top...somehow...i dunno ΑΝΔΡΩΝΙΚΩΣ Π Ταλκ 07:24, 17 June 2008 (CDT)