Anonymous and Internet Anarchy -

Wings of Fire · #61 04-15-2011, 11:35 AM

Yeah, ED isn't funny at all.

Sekto Springs · #62 04-15-2011, 11:37 AM

ED exists(ed) to offend.
If you're feeling particularly hateful towards something that day, reading it's ED page can be refreshing.

Mr. Bungle · #63 04-15-2011, 11:41 AM

I liked reading ED as a satire on 4chan and other thing pertaining to it. What happened to it?

CrissCross · #64 04-15-2011, 11:49 AM

it died a horrible death

Sekto Springs · #65 04-15-2011, 11:52 AM

I think the first instance of ED being forced to censor was with it's page on black people. The infamous "Offended Page" was soon to follow.

I think it was some Australians doing what Australians do best: getting offended. There was legal action taken against the ED webmasters. I can't say if ED's removal is a result of the proceedings or if their servers just crashed.

STM · #66 04-15-2011, 01:12 PM

I can get ED but I prefer UA because it's funnier and equally ooo

Manco · #67 04-15-2011, 01:38 PM

ED was impressive in the pages where they accumulated genuinely funny evidence against stupid people, but yeah a lot of it was crap.

Dixanadu · #68 04-15-2011, 01:42 PM

ED had it's golden moments.

-Video game articles were funny.
-Things I hate were lampooned to shit
-I liked the World Cup 2010 live feed.
-Black humor (Not African American black, you know...)

On a side note, Uncyclopedia is not funny.

Ridg3 · #69 04-15-2011, 01:56 PM

http://ohinternet.com/Oh_Internet:Bulletin_Board

This explains quite a lot actually. For example;

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This is a pretty cool clone you of KYM you guys have here. Counting the days before this shuts its doors. This will never be what ED was. I read some articles. They aren't even funny. They blow. SFW?? Thats just asinine. There's already tons of sites that are SFW meme repositories. ED was different. The old internet is clearly long gone if this is the crap that gets made now. Good luck morons. Zell65 00:57, 15 April 2011 (CDT)

* This isn't a meme repository and a lot of people don't seem to get that. It will cover everything ED did, minus non-internet stuff. Just go away, you're not helping. --JohnnyMak 00:59, 15 April 2011 (CDT)
o There's no way this is going to cover the years of fuckery that ED had and still be worksafe. It can't be done. You can't neuter the internet and package it for this place, adorn the whole thing with wholesome ads for Amazon and expect it to work. This won't attract the same scum of ED who really knew the culture, and you won't be able to make progress without them. Sorry, that's how it is. Zell65 01:04, 15 April 2011 (CDT)
+ See you in a few years, buddy. --JohnnyMak 01:06, 15 April 2011 (CDT)
# have to agree here, this place won't attract the EDiot crowd as no one wants to spend all their time creating hundreds of the same articles over again just because some idiot decided it was time to start over. And the mainstream crowd already has KYM, which has many years over you. Even if you claim to Aim higher and record more than just memes, you're just too far behind to catch up. Jimbob 01:26, 15 April 2011 (CDT)
* All that culture wiped out with the flick of a switch. Feels bad. When you make a page like ED, you think to yourself "This will always be here. This sum total of internet douchery will be eternally enshrined." Zell65 01:33, 15 April 2011 (CDT)
o I never thought that. It was a wiki. It could easily be deleted even without a reboot. No wiki edits can be classified as permanent, or always going to be here. Plus, every instance of pop culture, and doubly so for internet pop culture, is pretty transient. --

tl;dr
ED was deleted because the admins/editors were overwhelmed with the amount of shit that was posted and didn't want to siphon through it all and delete the unfunny stuff. Basically it's a SFW ED now. I'm troubled by this.

T-nex · #70 04-15-2011, 01:58 PM

Id have top agree and say that Uncyclopedia isn't funny. The humor is way too childish, random and unclever.

It's kind of like those really bad movie parodies, which when you think about it has nothing to do with the movies except for the aesthetics.

Ridg3 · #71 04-15-2011, 02:04 PM

Actually UC had funny articles but they were spread far to thin for my taste and I couldn't have been bothered wading through god-awful pages to get to a funny one.

Sekto Springs · #72 04-15-2011, 02:36 PM

Uncyclopedia was Unfunny.

STM · #73 04-15-2011, 02:57 PM

Not gonna lie to you, neither is ED...unfortunately good amateur comedy, written on the internet is hard to come by.

Wings of Fire · #74 04-15-2011, 02:58 PM

TVTropes manages to still make me chuckle a few times a page, however the ratio of chuckles to pages goes down with every passing month.

Sekto Springs · #75 04-15-2011, 03:09 PM

As I said, ED is funny in small doses applied to things that deserve it. Uncyclopedia doesn't pull punches, it just sucks.

As for tropes, I don't think its so much funny as it is insightful. Its the cool media bible.

Daxter King · #76 04-15-2011, 03:14 PM

The worst part of ED closing down is the fact that it had a really good creepypasta page. Everything else was hit or miss.

Dixanadu · #77 04-15-2011, 03:54 PM

Encyclopedia Dramatica was created by a girl.

Yep.

CrissCross · #78 04-15-2011, 03:57 PM

:

Encyclopedia Dramatica was created by a girl.

Yep.

Seriously

Dixanadu · #79 04-15-2011, 04:01 PM

Read it again until you understand.

***Alcar*** · #80 04-17-2011, 04:16 PM

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I think the first instance of ED being forced to censor was with it's page on black people. The infamous "Offended Page" was soon to follow.

I think it was some Australians doing what Australians do best: getting offended. There was legal action taken against the ED webmasters. I can't say if ED's removal is a result of the proceedings or if their servers just crashed.

If I recall correctly, it was over a page about our indigenous population. Not sure how legal action could have forced their hand though - aren't ED's servers located in the US, and therefore covered by the First Amendment?

Alcar...

Pilot · #81 04-17-2011, 08:39 PM

I will miss the ED entry for "Kristen Yuna."

Strike Witch · #82 04-17-2011, 11:23 PM

So I take it nobody made an archive of ED?

Dixanadu · #83 04-18-2011, 01:37 AM

It's back up.

Albeit imageless.

Bullet Magnet · #84 04-18-2011, 06:21 AM

They "united" under a single name, but there s no structure or cohesion, anyone can say they are or are not a member, and as such they can have no cause or mission. There's no way for anyone within nor without Anonymous to determine whether an act committed under the name of Anonymous was indeed an act of Anonymous. I could not even say that there is such a thing as an "act of Anonymous".

Crashpunk · #85 04-20-2011, 09:56 AM

I'm not really sure what this thread is trying to say or what its about. However it looks intresting so could someone please tell me what your all going on about?

STM · #86 04-20-2011, 10:20 AM

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=anonymous

Majic · #87 04-23-2011, 12:18 AM

http://www.dmagazine.com/Home/D_Maga...f_Tunisia.aspx

representin' D-town Texas, yo

Dipstikk · #88 04-23-2011, 09:33 AM

Oh, cool. Two pages of some obnoxious twerp's self-important dick waxing. I'd rather slowly skewer my eye with a rusty pin.

Oh, and Majik, we get it. You're their little cheerleader.

"Yay, team!"

MA · #89 04-23-2011, 06:03 PM

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Oh, cool. Two pages of some obnoxious twerp's self-important dick waxing. I'd rather slowly skewer my eye with a rusty pin.

Oh, and Majik, we get it. You're their little cheerleader.

"Yay, team!"

i think i love you.

Dipstikk · #90 04-23-2011, 07:25 PM

BUT I GOTTA KNOW FO' SHO-AH.