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Encyclopedia Dramatica is dead!

coolsomecoolsome
edited April 2011 in General Chat
It has become "Oh internet" and from what I can tell its a page about internet culture n stuff.

Sherrod DeGrippio's reasoning was that "Shock for shock’s sake is old at this point and we're looking forward to the future and how things are evolving... when you put user experience first, the language becomes highly important and that's what we’ve done."

I think what she means is "I like money".

Comments

  • Secret FawfulSecret Fawful
    edited April 2011
    ED was the worst site on the entire internet. Hopefully now it'll be something that isn't a total piece of shit.
  • Martin McFlyMartin McFly
    edited April 2011
    It sort of resembles KnowYourMeme.
  • ShaggEShaggE
    edited April 2011
    Know Your Meme completely supplants ED. At least when I go to KYM, I don't have to worry about a flood of popups, virus alerts, and assorted BS because the staff doesn't give two shits if they get hacked or put up ads from a shady site.
  • der_ketzerder_ketzer
    edited April 2011
    Secret Fawful wrote: »
    ED was the worst site on the entire internet. Hopefully now it'll be something that isn't a total piece of shit.

    You have to be kidding.
  • JedExodusJedExodus
    edited April 2011
    ShaggE wrote: »
    Know Your Meme completely supplants ED. At least when I go to KYM, I don't have to worry about a flood of popups, virus alerts, and assorted BS because the staff doesn't give two shits if they get hacked or put up ads from a shady site.

    ED was pretty well written sometimes though. Know Your Meme is pretty "blehhh"

    Regardless, the internet shall survive I thinks, no idea why the two can't coexist though
  • RAnthonyMahanRAnthonyMahan
    edited April 2011
    Secret Fawful wrote: »
    ED was the worst site on the entire internet. Hopefully now it'll be something that isn't a total piece of shit.

    Why do you say this? I'm not trying to disagree with you (it's no secret that ED had a lot of problems, to put things politely), I'm just curious about your reasoning.
  • coolsomecoolsome
    edited April 2011
    der_ketzer wrote: »
    You have to be kidding.

    Dead baby real pics for humor. That's just one of the reasons I'm glad its gone forever.
  • FalancaFalanca
    edited April 2011
    ED was, sadly, one of the only sites that were able to drop truly adequate criticism with a "no bullshit" behavior. That is actually quite valuable. Although there are MANY examples of ED just trolling people with porn gifs, bad promotion and, well, pointing out legit points that anyone else who has a feel of decency wouldn't. ED did devour and demolish, but there are also many times they tried to do SOMETHING.
  • FriarFriar
    edited April 2011
    I never had the chance to visit ED when it was up. Was it anything like the uncylopedia? It basically is full of pages where people have come up with OTT explanations for things. Like Volcanoes are "large bulges in the earth's crust where the very ground itself opens in a melodramatic burst of annoying lava, ash, and angst. In other words, they are like mountains, but scientists like to talk about them. This is because the volcanoes are annoying little attention whores. "
  • RAnthonyMahanRAnthonyMahan
    edited April 2011
    Friar wrote: »
    I never had the chance to visit ED when it was up. Was it anything like the uncylopedia? It basically is full of pages where people have come up with OTT explanations for things. Like Volcanoes are "large bulges in the earth's crust where the very ground itself opens in a melodramatic burst of annoying lava, ash, and angst. In other words, they are like mountains, but scientists like to talk about them. This is because the volcanoes are annoying little attention whores. "

    No. It was...uh...how do I put this...

    Well, it was partially a wiki about Internet culture, with articles about memes, websites, and...notorious individuals. And it was partially a shock humor site (I should add that almost every article was outright insulting its subject).
  • coolsomecoolsome
    edited April 2011
    Strangley enough they clearly love Monkey Island. There article on it was prasing it a lot.
  • RetroVortexRetroVortex
    edited April 2011
    I guess this situation just got...

    Dramatic.

    YEEEAAAAHH!!!!
  • FriarFriar
    edited April 2011
    Personally, I think you are all being over dramatica.
  • hackmanhackman
    edited April 2011
    Most of the articles were pretty ridiculous, but some articles were quite informative and the sense of humor just hit the mark. Sad it's gone
  • JedExodusJedExodus
    edited April 2011
    RAnthonyMahan wrote: »
    No. It was...uh...how do I put this...

    Well, it was partially a wiki about Internet culture, with articles about memes, websites, and...notorious individuals. And it was partially a shock humor site (I should add that almost every article was outright insulting its subject).

    Another difference was that it was occasionally funny, unlike Uncyclopedia
  • Comrade PantsComrade Pants
    edited April 2011
    I loved ED. I wouldn't mind if they turned down the shock value for shock value's sake so much if the new UI wasn't so obnoxious and as ugly as sin.
  • Secret FawfulSecret Fawful
    edited April 2011
    RAnthonyMahan wrote: »
    Why do you say this? I'm not trying to disagree with you (it's no secret that ED had a lot of problems, to put things politely), I'm just curious about your reasoning.
    coolsome wrote: »
    Dead baby real pics for humor. That's just one of the reasons I'm glad its gone forever.

    Well there's this. I personally found the site to be rather hateful.
  • JedExodusJedExodus
    edited April 2011
    Secret Fawful wrote: »
    Well there's this. I personally found the site to be rather hateful.

    That was its thing. it'd insult something or someone, then insult the polar opposite/antithesis of it. There was no real hate, equal opportunity offenders and all that
  • FalancaFalanca
    edited April 2011
    It wouldn't hurt someone to have a passively "hurtful" site somewhere, to be honest. ED's real philosophy is to criticize something within a perspective that isn't restricted by ANY ethical rules whatsoever. With that, they were actually quite talented about bringing up legit points that noone else could do, for a variety of reasons that most normal people weren't even aware of said reasons' existence until they see some other people using such arguments. Maybe I read into it too much, but I think ED was a way of rediscovering social and cultural restrictions and getting aware of them. After that point, you can always choose by which perspective you want to use in YOUR life. There were many times I disagreed with ED but at least they showed an option, and when I disagreed with them I became aware of my own personal weaknesses. ED wasn't restricted by nationalism, communism, christianity, islam, or ETHICS, or WHATEVER; they were truthfully objective. One might say they were restricted by anarchism, but they never really hurt anyone other than people who openly claimed to be offended by ED, aka people who fed the trolls; and STILL the damage ED bestowed was never a physical one.

    Like how JedExodus put it, it was equal opportunity of getting insulted for everyone, BY everyone --everyone who got bored of many systems we are currently living in.

    It's hateful and I'm sorry but, noone should baww over pixels like pussies and grow some balls to READ. That is why ED was actually quite famous; not just because newfags could puke gallons of text with lots of swearing about their ex-girlfriends.
  • Mr NuttMr Nutt
    edited April 2011
    JedExodus wrote: »
    Another difference was that it was occasionally funny, unlike Uncyclopedia

    What's not to love about Age of Umpires?
  • Comrade PantsComrade Pants
    edited April 2011
    Mr Nutt wrote: »
    What's not to love about Age of Umpires?

    Well, it's not very funny; for one.
  • Chyron8472Chyron8472
    edited April 2011
    A friend of mine who has Asperger's Syndrome posted on her Facebook Wall once about how she had found the "articles" on ED about Asperger's and Autism which belittled and mocked people who were diagnosed with same. She was really very upset about it, so I, having never visited ED before, explored the site and discovered that ED belittles and mock pretty much everything that it is possible to do so, apparently merely for the sake of getting a rise out of people (or perhaps for stupidity's sake.)

    I told her that ED makes fun of everything and not to worry about it. (Actually, I also created an account there and tried to remove much of offensive info on the articles in question, but they banned my account and reversed my actions within half an hour of my doing so.)
  • Comrade PantsComrade Pants
    edited April 2011
    Chyron8472 wrote: »
    A friend of mine who has Asperger's Syndrome posted on her Facebook Wall once about how she had found the "articles" on ED about Asperger's and Autism which belittled and mocked people who were diagnosed with same. She was really very upset about it, so I, having never visited ED before, explored the site and discovered that ED belittles and mock pretty much everything that it is possible to do so, apparently merely for the sake of getting a rise out of people (or perhaps for stupidity's sake.)

    I told her that ED makes fun of everything and not to worry about it. (Actually, I also created an account there and tried to remove much of offensive info on the articles in question, but they banned my account and reversed my actions within half an hour of my doing so.)

    I tried to argue something similar to this. See, you don't *have* to read their site and they've got the freedom to make fun of anyone and everyone - and they do.

    Undoing the articles is like trying to patch a leak on a cardboard steamship; it's not going to do shit.
  • coolsomecoolsome
    edited April 2011
    I'm glad ED is gone. I admit I did find it funny sometimes but the shock images and jokes about murdered kids and other sick things on there where to far IMO. Its true that if you don't like it don't go so that's why I stopped. But I'm still aloud to be happy its gone though freedom of speech goes both ways meaning I can express my happiness its gone.
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