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some people keep complaining about ideas used over and over again – this is a perfect example of it. praypal with a different name, mainly.
there were some good ideas out there |
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Posted On: 08/25/2008 1:50PM | View Aldo_Anything's Profile | # | ||||||
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Aldo_Anything Posted:
spacekadt Posted:
Yes, it doesn’t have to be anything like PrayPal. Instead of thinking of it as people confessing their sins and asking for religious absolution, think of it as people sharing their dark, tacky, untrue, embarrbuming, or otherwise hilarious secrets with strangers on the internet, not for absolution but for attention.
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Posted On: 08/25/2008 1:59PM | View enire's Profile | # | ||||||
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sure there’s a slight difference – on the other hand, why not choose a forum with an original theme first? Aldo_Anything edited this message on 08/25/2008 2:02PM |
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Posted On: 08/25/2008 2:02PM | View Aldo_Anything's Profile | # | ||||||
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Meh, I don’t see it as just a slight difference.
PrayPal doesn’t have a confessional angle to it at all; if this one is built without a religious angle… well, there won’t really be any overlap.
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Posted On: 08/25/2008 2:18PM | View enire's Profile | # | ||||||
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looks like people are leaning more towards sexual deviance than religion on this one, anyway |
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Posted On: 08/25/2008 3:50PM | Pickled male reproductive organbum... | # | ||||||
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spacekadt Posted:
it was def. designed to be more like postsecret than a religious forum |
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Posted On: 08/25/2008 5:35PM | Pickled male reproductive organbum... | # | ||||||
Looks like a lot of people in this thread have never heard of grouphug.us.
Edit: Heh, and I’ve never heard of PostSecret. Pluvius edited this message on 08/25/2008 10:34PM |
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Posted On: 08/25/2008 10:34PM | View Pluvius's Profile | # | ||||||
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Pickled male reproductive organbum Posted:
thank god I’m not insane… a postsecret parody is definitely how I read this description when I voted on it. I like the idea a lot, actually |
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Posted On: 08/25/2008 10:41PM | View spacekadt's Profile | # | ||||||
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except that doesn’t work because postsecret isn’t a ****ing forum |
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Posted On: 08/26/2008 12:27AM | View Veer's Profile | # | ||||||
I think I’ll pbum this week. |
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Posted On: 08/26/2008 12:41AM | View Travalgar's Profile | # | ||||||
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Veer Posted:
Except that it is… kinda indirectly. People are sending their secrets into one person and that person posts them online.
And besides, for all the ****ing that people have been doing about wanting to see something that doesn’t directly rip something else off and is *inspired* (but not copied) from something else, you’d think this would have been an ideal forum. |
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Posted On: 08/26/2008 1:03AM | View spacekadt's Profile | # | ||||||
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This is all the parody PostSecret has ever needed:
Log in to see images!
But if we DID need more, lolsecretz.com would’ve been enough. |
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Posted On: 08/26/2008 11:29AM | View Orb's Profile | # | ||||||
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yeah, but you can’t pwn those people via forumwarz. if all the parody you need of the internet is the internet, then you are in the wrong place. |
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Posted On: 08/26/2008 11:44AM | Pickled male reproductive organbum... | # | ||||||
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Pickled male reproductive organbum Posted:
Okay, good point.
Maybe I just wanted an excuse to post overcompensating. It’s such a good comic! |
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Posted On: 08/26/2008 11:58AM | View Orb's Profile | # | ||||||
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Yeah, I immediately thought of postsecret and grouphug when I saw this. It would be great if each forum came with a couple of built-in references, which is what the CZ team does when we make forums.
Instead of debating about whether or not it’s a lame idea, we could point each other to real-life forums that we can mock, and then rip off and distort their message. |
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Posted On: 08/26/2008 12:33PM | View Jalapeno Bootyho...'s Profile | # | ||||||
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Orb Posted:
J. Ro is a pretty cool dude, too, judging at least from the limited time I’ve hung with the dude. |
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Posted On: 08/26/2008 12:51PM | Pickled male reproductive organbum... | # | ||||||
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wow thread titles are hell of competitive this week. |
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Posted On: 08/28/2008 12:17PM | Pickled male reproductive organbum... | # | ||||||
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Unfortunately most of the thread titles are not very good. There are a few gems, but for the most part the subs look more like people’s versions of the Aristocrat joke with madlibs than they do confessions. Of all the categories Typical Posts has the highest quality subs on average this week, but it’s not nearly as cutthroat, and “highest quality on average” is not meant to be a big compliment.
Really, across the board standards have dropped pretty low where wit is concerned on this build. A large numbers of them are just statements about @sex_ act with @ relative, without any effort put towards making them funny. Incest by itself CAN be funny, but you have to at least try to make the delivery funny. And no matter how good the joke is (not very, in this case), it isn’t funny at all when repeated so many times.
And the constant references to @ feces! I thought we already HAD a forum based on fecalphilia, but this one gives That’s A Lot of Feces a run for it’s money. At least Feces had the benefit of being an official forum, and thus had plenty of generic posts and angry replies thrown in to balance the forum. Confessional is going to be The Incest Show Starring Excrement.
Angry Replies is a little better in terms of deviating from those two topics, but it has its own problems. I think the problem here came because whether you consider the build being about a Confessional or a parody of PostSecret, people don’t really respond to the content. It’s hard to imagine what would they say if someone invaded their space because you can’t invade their space.
This doesn’t go for the most of the replies in the top ten… there’s some good ones up there that clearly belong to Internet Confessional. But the majority of the others are absolutely generic. I expect a large number of bad subs in any category of any build, but usually most of the bad subs at least go along with the spirit of the forum. They could be inserted as angry replies in any forum, and they’d more or less blend in. Lots of @ insert_generic and @ insult_homosexual.
In review, Internet Confessional has its moments as a forum idea, especially throughout the Typical Posts. And no matter how bad the idea is, you can almost always count on some really good subs out of Enemies. But the Thread Titles are lackluster and this forum simply wasn’t meant for Angry Replies.
I cant really judge Logos or Styles, but they all seem pretty cool to me. Orb edited this message on 08/28/2008 1:49PM |
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Posted On: 08/28/2008 1:48PM | View Orb's Profile | # | ||||||
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shame that the winning style and new winning logo don’t match anymore. |
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Posted On: 08/28/2008 2:27PM | Pickled male reproductive organbum... | # | ||||||
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Pickled male reproductive organbum Posted:
Well, we needed more style options anyway. |
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Posted On: 08/28/2008 2:29PM | View Orb's Profile | # | ||||||
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