Shmeng 2.0
Date Friday, March 29, 2024 - 12:39 AM PST
Topic This Website


"The larger the group or the longer it has been in existence (without exclusionary measures to weed out the stupid), the more bland and uninspired it will become as a whole" - Monolycus

Guess what? We are changing the site now. And guess what else? We dont care if you like it or not.This is not the first time, nor the second time. The site has been collecting cluelessness again, and faced with the choice of starting a new site and leaving this one to rot, or reinventing this one and taking it back from the hands of the average - I have decided to try and salvage this one.
There will be much fire and brimstone. Poor little feelings will be hurt. You may or may not cry, but as I've mentioned before, this is my playground. I made it for me and my people to play in. This is not a public park. You have no inherrant right to play here. If you're not approved, then you need to find another playground.

This used to be a very cool place. I used to enjoy coming here every day and reading every little thing that was posted. Now I'm lucky if I can motivate to look at the pictures in the inbox. It won't be long before I just stop visiting altogether if things keep going like this. I do have a long enough memory to remember what this place was like before though. And as much as I like to run the site for the benefeit of the members, I have decided to change my policy and only run it for the benefeit of the approved members.

So what constitutes an approved member? Have I ever personally told you that you rock? Have I ever paid you a compliment of any kind (other than telling you that you're cute)? If so then you're probably approved. Are you on the Most Active Members Page? If you're on that page, you probably don't have much to worry about either. Otherwise, chances are good that you're one of the people that is contributing to the site's current mediocrity.

It also seems that either the age or the education level of the new members just keeps going down. The reason this isn't just another one of those stupid goth sites that you're not reading right now, is because it's a grownup site. The core members are all grownups. The approved teenagers act like grownups. The posts that get approved tend to avoid the trite topics and bad poetry that all of the similar sites stoop to. If enough people really want to post that kind of stuff, ask me and maybe I'll help you set up your own trite teenager site.

And for those of you who keep submitting your "cries for help" - Knock it off. we are not your mommy or your shrink. The brilliant people here can fix most of your problems if you listen to them, but are not obligated to do so - and it's rude to ask or expect it - you can hang around and read if you want to be polished up, and occasionally someone will take on a project and polish them up - if this happens feel lucky - if it doesn't, don't get pissy about it - we all dealt with our own issues (mostly before there was an internet) - you can deal with yours (and without whining).

Now the good part. You'll notice the site looks completely different. You'll also notice that you can't find a damm thing. There was getting to be so much stuff on each page that the pages were taking forever to load, and using up too much bandwidth with stuff nobody was looking at. I've broken the site up into sections. The links at the top are your friend. Only a few things have been removed - and nobody really looked at them anyway.

The block at the top left tells you which section you're in. It also has links to stuff in that section. If you can't find something you're looking for, you're just looking in the wrong section.

There are a few new goodies. I won't give them all away since that would take all of the fun out of it all. There are also still huge ammounts of bugs. It's been a long time since the site has had a change this major, and I'm still finding bugs left and right. Please send me a note if you find something not working right.

"if you have any questions, pray to your gods of choice - if you're an atheist, heh... you're fucked."

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