I had heard of Something Awful, but the first time I heard of Lowtax was earlier this week because of someone running a Go Fund Me for his ex and child. From what I understand, he was beating his spouse, so she left with the help of his previous ex, whom he also abused. He blew threw their money and killed himself so he wouldn't have to pay child support. Sounds like a gem.
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I lurked occasionally for years before I signed up to support the site. I rarely post there tho, it's still active enough that somebody has already posted one of my takes
The second wife is a member, and used to work for him, and has posted about this.
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The evil that men do live after them, the good is oft interred with their bones.
That said, I think it was evident even 20+ years ago that Lowtax was not a stable individual, and a relationship with him was a risky venture at best.
THAT said, Something Awful brought me a whole lot of joy over the last few decades. I never joined the forums (from everything I hear, it was definitely the 4chan of its day), but I loved reading the articles.
And our OMGWTFBBQ reaction was named after SA contributor Ryan "OMGWTFBBQ" Adams.
That said, I think it was evident even 20+ years ago that Lowtax was not a stable individual, and a relationship with him was a risky venture at best.
THAT said, Something Awful brought me a whole lot of joy over the last few decades. I never joined the forums (from everything I hear, it was definitely the 4chan of its day), but I loved reading the articles.
And our OMGWTFBBQ reaction was named after SA contributor Ryan "OMGWTFBBQ" Adams.
Guy created the site but it's all the people who have passed through it that made it great
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I think 4chan started from banned members
GasBandit
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Most of my favorite articles were indeed written by Zack "Geist Editor" Parsons, but JeffK and various other personas of Lowtax will always have a space in my head.
Kind of. Lowtax banned hentai from the SA forums, and 4chan was founded by SA forum users who wanted a forum where they could post hentai and do anything else and have completely no consequences.
And TBH I kinda understand where they were coming from, because at its height, I hear the SA forums were just banning people left and right for no real reason, but you could get unbanned by paying $10.
Hence all the "hope you got ten bux" memes
I've never read the articles or even looked at the front page. I'll have to look those up later
Edit: I wasn't around back then but from the all the rustled banned members I've seen the mods have usually been right to boot someone. As it is now it's one of the most heavily modded communities online and the current mods have done well cracking down on members who harass queer people
Edit 2: Like a while back I heard about this programmer who got unfairly banned for "being mentally ill". Turns out this guy couldn't disagree with anyone without calling them the n word
Final Edit?: this guy. Saw a post go viral on tumblr about how great it was that it took him ten years to program an 80s commodore style os. Dude was seriously a piece of shit and not from his mental illness
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Edit 3: Some mods got booted after the site was sold for covering up lowtax's spousal abuse. It really is under new management and working on being better
Edit: I wasn't around back then but from the all the rustled banned members I've seen the mods have usually been right to boot someone. As it is now it's one of the most heavily modded communities online and the current mods have done well cracking down on members who harass queer people
Edit 2: Like a while back I heard about this programmer who got unfairly banned for "being mentally ill". Turns out this guy couldn't disagree with anyone without calling them the n word
Final Edit?: this guy. Saw a post go viral on tumblr about how great it was that it took him ten years to program an 80s commodore style os. Dude was seriously a piece of shit and not from his mental illness
Terry A. Davis - Wikipedia
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TempleOS - Wikipedia
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Edit 3: Some mods got booted after the site was sold for covering up lowtax's spousal abuse. It really is under new management and working on being better
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I'm not saying there weren't a lot of cesspit dwellers, there definitely were, especially in FYAD. But being banned kinda loses its sting when you can just pay 10 bucks to get back in, and then it becomes less moderation and more profit grinding. At least that's what it seemed to me, back in the day. Which is part of why I just stuck to reading the articles and saved my witty repartee for here (and of course, FARK.com)
There are different kinds of bans there. Probations, bans, and permabans
Lot of goons have been celebrating that he's not gonna cause any issues for the board now
Besides the nazis making the most noise and daring anyone to take a swing at them?
cmon, if they were really Nazis, you wouldnt just have obvious, out loud stuff. You’d have weird insider shit for no real reason other than being dog whistles, like (and this is just off the top of my head, a complete hypothetical) i dunno, a major book retailer selling Mein Kampf for $14.88 or something
and yes, this is real. At least as of the timestamp of this post.
Now that shooting someone is no longer a crime he just doesn't want to get shot
Please be accurate.
Walmart's got big signs now for everything that's on sale for 14.88. Lot of people have acted like I'm crazy for pointing it out
We don't have to imagine it, it happens all the time and gets completely ignored by the right
"The uploader has not made this video available in your country." :/
Cop pulled a black guy over. Guy tells him he is a legal gun owner and has a gun in a holster on him. Cop has a panic attack and unloads on the guy. Everybody on the right claps
I have been endlessly antagonized by managers for not making every meal perfect every time. I've had panic attacks at work. Never killed anybody
No prob, bud. I don't want any trouble for the board
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Oh I just noticed which post it was. That does look pretty bad lol