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The Burger King is an evil homosexual man with a plastic face who runs around terrorizing the Burger populace. It is speculated that he took control of the Burger underground by viciously murdering long-time crime boss The Hamburglar with nothing but a spork and a smile. ... His favorite pastime is sneaking into other mens' hotel rooms at night and penetrating them in their sleep.

Now I won't have to keep sneezing because of my fashionable homemade bag.

Long short story, ED has a few articles making fun of Wikipedia. One of them was about MONGO, so he decided to use one of his puppets and list the ED article on Wikipedia for deletion. Since lots of wikipedians can't stand satire when they're the target of it, many voted delete. Now, if you're familiar with Wikipedia and look at the AfD, it's obvious that it should have been closed as "No consensus" instead of "Delete", but the admin decided to ignore the votes and get away with his bias. So much for democracy, huh?

It's sad, but not even Wikipedia is free from censorship. If the majority of the Wikipedians don't like or agree with something, it WILL get deleted. All it takes is putting up an AfD and writing "Delete per WP:CNEIAMUP" (Wikipedia: Completely Non-Existant, Irrelevant And Made Up Policy). Being a wikibot is all about linking to WP: policies, make up interpretations for them and pretend they apply to the current article. And of course, you also need double-standards for all those "Shitty Webcomic with 10 hits per day", because webcomics rock!

It's denying information to people "just because". They're not even saving space by deleting the article, the history is still saved. That AfD was just a childish "Ha-ha, we don't like you so we're going to deny information to anyone that happens to be interested in Encyclopedia Dramatica!". Jimbo Wales said, "Imagine a world in which every single person is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.". He should have added "As long as we like that subject."

Not work safe!

What I love about /.'ers is the giant screamfest you guys put out over the government and business abusing private information gained through nefarious means but soon as the masses do it ... it's ok. Hypocritical IMO. Which brings me to my second point ...

You have the right to speak to an attorney, but he can't help you take back what you said on the Internet. Nobody can

Ok we all know the information cannot be taken back. That's nice. But how do we know these people that responded are really those people's photographs and backgrounds? Physical possession does not equal authentication.

What would the author have to gain from "outing" some of these people? Remember that question about who gains you guys always ask of government? Perhaps you should apply it here. I'm not saying all of them are part of some grand fake. But one of the people "outed" was the husband of a community moderator that the prankster was banned from. And a moderator from Encyclopedia Dramatica took joy in telling the wife moderator what had happened. That seems a little too coincidental.

Let's also talk about the provenance of all this. Why is that thousands of people on the net automatically assume that the information provided to them out of nowhere is true? You guys should check out the Encyclopedia Dramatica history. That's an awful lot of people working on an article that supposedly came from one person. It's also a lot of people with an axe to grind against certain people. It's not like the after-analysis of the raw information is objective.

Lastly, but oh so aftmostly, let us talk of the prankster himself. This story was linked too yesterday on MeFi. Some of the people on that thread found some embarrasing material on the prankster as well. Like bad poetry and so on. Guess what? He took them down after people started linking too it. So not only do you have a guy who gets a kick out of publishing people's private information but he's against his own being published as well.

What I love about /.'ers is the giant screamfest you guys put out over the government and business abusing private information gained through nefarious means but soon as the masses do it ... it's ok. Hypocritical IMO. Which brings me to my second point ...

You have the right to speak to an attorney, but he can't help you take back what you said on the Internet. Nobody can

Ok we all know the information cannot be taken back. That's nice. But how do we know these people that responded are really those people's photographs and backgrounds? Physical possession does not equal authentication.

What would the author have to gain from "outing" some of these people? Remember that question about who gains you guys always ask of government? Perhaps you should apply it here. I'm not saying all of them are part of some grand fake. But one of the people "outed" was the husband of a community moderator that the prankster was banned from. And a moderator from Encyclopedia Dramatica took joy in telling the wife moderator what had happened. That seems a little too coincidental.

Let's also talk about the provenance of all this. Why is that thousands of people on the net automatically assume that the information provided to them out of nowhere is true? You guys should check out the Encyclopedia Dramatica history. That's an awful lot of people working on an article that supposedly came from one person. It's also a lot of people with an axe to grind against certain people. It's not like the after-analysis of the raw information is objective.

Lastly, but oh so aftmostly, let us talk of the prankster himself. This story was linked too yesterday on MeFi. Some of the people on that thread found some embarrasing material on the prankster as well. Like bad poetry and so on. Guess what? He took them down after people started linking too it. So not only do you have a guy who gets a kick out of publishing people's private information but he's against his own being published as well.

Odd thing, the full Encyclopeida Dramatica site is down, and even more strange is that the Wikipedia article for it is deleted and protected, along with the talk page, and there is no explanation, it has been down since august. Does anyone have any idea why this is?

Did it get slashdotted, or purposely removed? Also whats up with the Wikipedia page. I would like to at least know what the Encyclopedia Dramatica is, the only source I could really find was from Urban Dictionary, which really isn't the best source of anything.

I really hate this guy. I don't know much about him, but I hope he spends some time in jail. I feel this way after reading about this guy who contacted him:

http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/RFJ ason_CL_Experiment
search for Part I: Email conversation with Jerry
also look at parts ii and iii

He has no empathy, and he is clearly trying to humiliate these people. Given the large number of people he angered (whose lives may be ruined because of it) and his very public profile, I am guessing he is going to have to go into hiding soon. In addition to a lack of empathy, he has a lack of common sense.

Here's the link to the Encyclopaedia Dramatica article in question, if anyone cares:
http://pr0n.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/RF Jason_Craigslist_Experiment

RFJason_CL_Experiment

The biggest group protesting it has almost 100,000 users in a day. Some guy calculated it peaked around 20 users a second earlier:

http://encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/Faceboo k

And add this one

I actually think this would work better, no?

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[1] see here for more info if you don't know what i mean

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[1] see here for more info if you don't know what i mean

Next, I suppose, aliens from Planet Zontar in Zeta Reticuli will have stolen those very same computers from which the Unix and Dynix code was deleted.

Well, if you ask Esker Melchior, I'm sure he'll agree that it wasn't aliens from Zontar, but really the Ixorians!

A friend of mine has some kind of personality disorder which he and his family thought for a long time was Asperger's. It's like he never learned quite how to act around other people, or to realize when he's talking a bit too loudly. But no, when he got diagnosed, it turns out that yes, he does have *something*, but it's not Asperger's. (I think it was PDD-NOS; they gave him drugs, which seem to have helped him quite a bit.)

It's ridiculous to remotely diagnose historical figures with these things, which aren't even that rigorously defined for people living now, being seen in person by an actual psychiatrist. I'm not quite of the encyclopedia dramatica school of thought, but I do think that the syndrome has been overly romanticized, and it feels pretty tasteless.

I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday.

No, like this. Pity, the original site seems to be gone.

Hai Banner, found you in the bottom right image: http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/Fur meet

Slap Jurrel's ass for me, and remember that people on WoW aren't furry, thus they're sane and your arguments don't apply. ^_____^

Surely you mean this one. Or maybe this one, it's more like a logo, the first one (and the one you linked) are wallpapers, really :)

Surely you mean this one. Or maybe this one, it's more like a logo, the first one (and the one you linked) are wallpapers, really :)

Now, just for sake of completeness (and a demonstration of the power of hyperlinking), an instructional example (thanks to Google!)

The best way to remove Goatse from your mind is to find a different, more troubling image to replace it with -- just as you forget about a splinter if you break your arm :).

May I suggest MeatSpin? Or Tubgirl?

I have more reliable sources than wikipedia: Linux.
I know why I'm using FreeBSD.

I suspect the die-hard AOL users would in fact, keep AOL once switching to broadband. Why? Because they were never smart enough to have switched from AOL to a traditoinal dialup ISP.

AOL has just enough exclusive content to keep a lot of people coming back for more.

The last time I looked (about a year ago) they had dozens of forums that were filled with posts. Obviously those folks prefer those forums to having to search the Internets(TM) for similar forums elsewhere.

Heck AOL dumped Usenet and that didn't seem to cause a mass exodus.

AOL is the only remaining survivor of the "Online Services" and there are enough people out there who feel they need that sort of thing they they will stick with AOL, regardless.

Ha, ha. Almost raped.

I saw this on http://encyclopediadramatica.com/ a while back and couldn't resist the urge to post it. http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/Pix ar

I saw this on http://encyclopediadramatica.com/ a while back and couldn't resist the urge to post it. http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/Pix ar

I personally like this industry, not for the content, but because I always get to play with the newest technological toys

I can relate myself:

ME: Would you like paper or plastic, ma'am?
CUSTOMER: Paper chaffes my skin, so gimme the plastic plz.
ME: Enjoy the Harry Potter NIMBUS 2000 Broom, and thankyou for shopping at Toys'R'Us

Oh!
My!
God!

Encylclopedia Dramatica provides a saracastic point of view but, there's some truth mixed in. (excuse the profane link) http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/Bur eaucratic_Fuck/

if you can explain that, you can explain all this weird world

Whatever

http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/A_w inner_is_you

(Palo Alto, CA. - DEVELOPING) The Buttes Foundation, a non-for-profit organization dedicated to empowering tomorrow through trolling today, announced victory over the Flock browser and the piddling company behind it. The announcement took place during a packed session at the Scientology center in Mountain View. Very important Buttes operative rolloffle said he found the air deliciously clear of thetans and other impediments in the pursuit of a good troll.

"Quite simply, Flock sucks," opined Buttes spokesman Khaled to an appreciative audience. "But not only does it suck; it is also a failure", he added to nods of agreement. On the wall was a complicated graph showing blogging activity regarding the dead-on-arrival "Social Browser". Khaled pointed to a sharp color change in the second quadrant which corresponded with the introduction of the Go Flock Yourself weblog, which has been detailing the worthlessness of Flock, its authors, and its fans since shortly after the introduction of the ill-fated application.

"As you can see here," said Khaled, "blogging activity about Flock turned decidedly negative after we began to expose its shortcomings". He then added "we also got Scoble to comment on our blog", pausing a minute before saying "lol". Shouts of "roflmao" and "you da man" erupted spontaneously from the crowd.

Rolloffle took over at that point, elaborating on the negative attention Flock has received, and finishing with Buttes's mea culpa, the eradication of the giant Flock advertisement from wordpress.com's front page. While the administrators of WordPress have not returned requests for comment at this time, it can only be assumed that the Go Flock Yourself blog (proudly featured on the front page since shortly after its inception) has made association with Flock a costly and embarrassing proposition.

During a busy Q&A session, the brainchild behind Go Flock Yourself, a diminutive Canadian who goes by the name "Screaming Eagle USA", offerred to clarify the role of the popular weblog now that Flock has officially failed. "Go Flock Yourself is designed to empower the sarcastic and trollish masses of the internet to drop a big, steaming turd all over Web 2.0 and all of its extravagances." Screaming Eagle displayed a slide of recent posts about say-so, yellowikis, and Squidoo, demonstrating a pattern of hard-hitting journalism that leaves no worthless, dollar-stuffed startup with its "perpetual beta" web application untouched. "Our victory over Flock will allow us to leverage all of our core competencies, maximizing ROI across skill domains, in order to architect the synergistic folksonomies that will empower the anti-Web 2.0 revolution."

About Buttes:
The Buttes Foundation is a group of trolls and ne'erdowells that has successfully terrorized the Something Awful forums through its internet terrorist offshoot Team Barry. In recent years, Buttes has expanded the reach of its deadly ruyn-rays to the world's telephone networks and now the blogosphere. More information on Buttes is available at Encyclopedia Dramatica.

About Flock:
Flock is an amateurish fork of Firefox which adds various extensions of marginal utility that integrate unaffiliated services (del.icio.us, flickr, etc.) directly into the browsing experience. Flock also includes a substandard blogging tool which even its most diehard users have had a hard time adopting. Flock is currently burning through approximately $1 million of venture capital, after which point it will promptly fold after failing to b

(Palo Alto, CA. - DEVELOPING) The Buttes Foundation, a non-for-profit organization dedicated to empowering tomorrow through trolling today, announced victory over the Flock browser and the piddling company behind it. The announcement took place during a packed session at the Scientology center in Mountain View. Very important Buttes operative rolloffle said he found the air deliciously clear of thetans and other impediments in the pursuit of a good troll.

"Quite simply, Flock sucks," opined Buttes spokesman Khaled to an appreciative audience. "But not only does it suck; it is also a failure", he added to nods of agreement. On the wall was a complicated graph showing blogging activity regarding the dead-on-arrival "Social Browser". Khaled pointed to a sharp color change in the second quadrant which corresponded with the introduction of the Go Flock Yourself weblog, which has been detailing the worthlessness of Flock, its authors, and its fans since shortly after the introduction of the ill-fated application.

"As you can see here," said Khaled, "blogging activity about Flock turned decidedly negative after we began to expose its shortcomings". He then added "we also got Scoble to comment on our blog", pausing a minute before saying "lol". Shouts of "roflmao" and "you da man" erupted spontaneously from the crowd.

Rolloffle took over at that point, elaborating on the negative attention Flock has received, and finishing with Buttes's mea culpa, the eradication of the giant Flock advertisement from wordpress.com's front page. While the administrators of WordPress have not returned requests for comment at this time, it can only be assumed that the Go Flock Yourself blog (proudly featured on the front page since shortly after its inception) has made association with Flock a costly and embarrassing proposition.

During a busy Q&A session, the brainchild behind Go Flock Yourself, a diminutive Canadian who goes by the name "Screaming Eagle USA", offerred to clarify the role of the popular weblog now that Flock has officially failed. "Go Flock Yourself is designed to empower the sarcastic and trollish masses of the internet to drop a big, steaming turd all over Web 2.0 and all of its extravagances." Screaming Eagle displayed a slide of recent posts about say-so, yellowikis, Squidoo, demonstrating a pattern of hard-hitting journalism that leaves no worthless, dollar-stuffed startup with its "perpetual beta" web application untouched. "Our victory over Flock will allow us to leverage all of our core competencies, maximizing ROI across skill domains, in order to architect the synergistic folksonomies that will empower the anti-Web 2.0 revolution."

About Buttes:
The Buttes Foundation is a group of trolls and ne'erdowells that has successfully terrorized the Something Awful forums through its internet terrorist offshoot Team Barry. In recent years, Buttes has expanded the reach of its deadly ruyn-rays to the world's telephone networks and now the blogosphere. More information on Buttes is available at Encyclopedia Dramatica

About Flock:
Flock is an amateurish fork of Firefox which adds various extensions of marginal utility that integrate unaffiliated services (del.icio.us, flickr, etc.) directly into the browsing experience. Flock also includes a substandard blogging tool which even its most diehard users have had a hard time adopting. Flock is currently burning through approximately $1 million of venture capital, after which point it will promptly fold after failing to be at

The real truth:

http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/Sla shdot

More (factually correct) info here:

http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/Asp erger's_Syndrome

http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/Sla shdot#Users_on_Slashdot

for those wishing to learn about the "Internets"

Here's someone who isn't complaining.. Guess I'm not taking her to the liquor store!

I found that site the other day by mistake. I was amused by an article they have on Thinsperation

http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/Mai n_Page

Ok, but on the other hand, it also has Cracky-chan!

I prefer Encyclopedia Dramatica. It's LiveJournallers taking the piss out of LiveJournallers/The Internet, and a whole load of other stuff besides. It's great.

I prefer this one myself. It even has chicks!

I prefer this one myself. It even has chicks!

what about Encyclopedia Dramatica? :)

For those who don't know about Sean Hannity, there is a great article at EncylopediaDramatica.