So there's a problem with people telling lies on the Internet. One of my oldest gripes about the Lolcow forum is that people will try to sell me their thread.
"Dynastia! Abbo fucker extraordinaire! Potential Pedophile! Hates meat pies!"
All I really want thread titles to be is the most common or well known name a person goes by. It's cleaner, more concise, better for search engines, smaller in tab titles, etc., though I acknowledge why people do this. There's a lot of threads here now, and people want theirs to stand out. For that reason, I am probably going to (again) reorganize the forum and write a custom mod to add subtitles, so we can have the best of both worlds. As for right now, this is fine, but it's causing other problems.
People are now overselling threads. One of the most blatant examples is when a woman was caught selling other people's beastiality videos to dogfuckers. She lied about being into beastiality and tricked people into buying other people's videos from her. In her thread, however, she was called a dogfucker although the entire point of her drama was that she never fucked a dog. This is horribly disingenuous to the people reading your thread. You've said one thing to get clicks, but you've presented the complete opposite of what has happened. You're now a shittier version of Gawker.
This thread is a good example of people using the magic word "pedophile" to get clicks.
https://kiwifarms.net/threads/willm3luvtrains-jehovahs-witness-trainsperg-possible-pedophile.17151/
If you're going to sell this person to me, the title is "Jehova Witness, Trainsperg, Nickelodeon Fetishist". You don't need to just outright calling the guy a pedophile, the work speaks for itself. The fascinating thing about this guy isn't that he's a "possible pedophile", it's that he draws Timmy Turner pissing in crayon. Like, you're not doing yourself a favor here by trying to spark indignant rage. You've somehow made it even less interesting.
What makes Nick Bate such a contemptible person isn't just the fact he is mentally ill and a sexual deviant. It's what he says, what he does, and how he says it and how he does it. Being a pedophile is quite honestly one of the least interesting things about Nick Bate, what makes his drama so fucking good is that he gloated for years about molesting a girl in his family and got burnt for it.
I'm contemplating how I want to deal with the "Used Car Salesman" problem. The most immediate thing I can ask of people is to not put "possible" anything in their titles. State facts, say what you have and not what you think. If I click a thread and I don't see what you're telling me, I'm going to be pretty pissed.
"Dynastia! Abbo fucker extraordinaire! Potential Pedophile! Hates meat pies!"
All I really want thread titles to be is the most common or well known name a person goes by. It's cleaner, more concise, better for search engines, smaller in tab titles, etc., though I acknowledge why people do this. There's a lot of threads here now, and people want theirs to stand out. For that reason, I am probably going to (again) reorganize the forum and write a custom mod to add subtitles, so we can have the best of both worlds. As for right now, this is fine, but it's causing other problems.
People are now overselling threads. One of the most blatant examples is when a woman was caught selling other people's beastiality videos to dogfuckers. She lied about being into beastiality and tricked people into buying other people's videos from her. In her thread, however, she was called a dogfucker although the entire point of her drama was that she never fucked a dog. This is horribly disingenuous to the people reading your thread. You've said one thing to get clicks, but you've presented the complete opposite of what has happened. You're now a shittier version of Gawker.
This thread is a good example of people using the magic word "pedophile" to get clicks.
https://kiwifarms.net/threads/willm3luvtrains-jehovahs-witness-trainsperg-possible-pedophile.17151/
If you're going to sell this person to me, the title is "Jehova Witness, Trainsperg, Nickelodeon Fetishist". You don't need to just outright calling the guy a pedophile, the work speaks for itself. The fascinating thing about this guy isn't that he's a "possible pedophile", it's that he draws Timmy Turner pissing in crayon. Like, you're not doing yourself a favor here by trying to spark indignant rage. You've somehow made it even less interesting.
What makes Nick Bate such a contemptible person isn't just the fact he is mentally ill and a sexual deviant. It's what he says, what he does, and how he says it and how he does it. Being a pedophile is quite honestly one of the least interesting things about Nick Bate, what makes his drama so fucking good is that he gloated for years about molesting a girl in his family and got burnt for it.
I'm contemplating how I want to deal with the "Used Car Salesman" problem. The most immediate thing I can ask of people is to not put "possible" anything in their titles. State facts, say what you have and not what you think. If I click a thread and I don't see what you're telling me, I'm going to be pretty pissed.
, not interested!". Not something I personally take issue with, so it's more of an aspect to consider and make a judgment call on on your own.
