This annoying new website (261 hits)
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Submitted by Joe Bob <wilkdee at hotmail> (View user info) at 2004-05-23 20:31:06 EDT
I was checking out a website the other day. It had a lot of users on it, and there was some content that was decent, some that was outstanding and some that sucked complete ass.
The annoying thing about it was that people kept telling others, who they didn't like, to stop posting. It was very strange, because the website was supposed to be an amalgam of the thoughts and musings of people EVERYWHERE, not just in one corner of the world and not just in one corner of someone's mind.
There were people sniping because of writing structure, there were those bitching because they didn't think that some peoples opinions were "sophisticated" or "urban" or "educated" enough to be valid opinions. Really, it started to get tiresome that people thought THEIR opinions of someones work were far more important and valid than the work that was actually put on the site, keeping in mind that the sites purpose was to collect as much of this work as possible.
It was a shame, because the concept was such a great one. Sorta a giant brain, where information from intelligent people, morons, racists, sexual deviants and possibly even mid-coma patients, could live together and partially explain why people are as fucked up as they are.
I clicked the "About Us" tab on the page and this is what it says, perhaps if more people read it, the site would get back to being what it's supposed to be, instead of a way for people to flagellate others with their reproductive organs, in a vain attempt to prove theirs are the biggest:
"<?SITE> will revolutionize the way you view information. The content of <?SITE> is created by anyone who wishes to create content for <?SITE>. Every user who reads content can rate the content as to its usefulness. Cut and dry, that is it. What does this mean for you? It means <?SITE> is better than your website. While most websites are limited in capability to the few heads atop the power pyramid of some organized structure, <?SITE> capitalizes on random, chaotic, unpredictable, flexible, bizarre human behavior to generate a website that is, in fact, better than your website. "
Perhaps the pyramid that has created itself on this site will chill out and realize that the ratings are there to show their opinion, most other personal attacks are superfluous.
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