Encyclopedia Dramatica (Encyclopaedia), No more MediaWiki? Options

[MZMcBride]

Anyone been following Encyclopedia Dramatica? It seems they've changed formats. I'm kind of surprised to not see a thread about it here already, though it's certainly possible I just missed it. Or maybe this place is just kinda dead at the moment.

[Michaeldsuarez]

http://encyclopediadramatica.ch/User:Meeps...acebook_Project

The original ED wouldn't post the dox of children.

Tarc, you need to be careful with who you associate yourself with.

[Tarc]

http://encyclopediadramatica.ch/User:Meeps...acebook_Project

The original ED wouldn't post the dox of children.

I think Jessi Slaughter would disagree, along with most of the Deviant Art people that had ED articles about them.

Tarc, you need to be careful with who you associate yourself with.

Oh, please, like this place is any better? WR regulars have spent countless hours compiling personal info, editing habits, juicy info and whatnot into various threads over the years....there is an entire subforum on "Notable Editors", even. Go look at how much effort has been expended to out Slim and Jayjg, for starters.

ED does it with liberal does of "LOL F4G" speak, while WR pats itself on the back for every bon mot you yahoos toss around. I mean, seriously, can anyone read an Awbrey post with a straight face?

Two sides of the same coin.

[Theanima]

Oh, please, like this place is any better? WR regulars have spent countless hours compiling personal info, editing habits, juicy info and whatnot into various threads over the years....there is an entire subforum on "Notable Editors", even. Go look at how much effort has been expended to out Slim and Jayjg, for starters.

ED does it with liberal does of "LOL F4G" speak, while WR pats itself on the back for every bon mot you yahoos toss around. I mean, seriously, can anyone read an Awbrey post with a straight face?

Two sides of the same coin.

With the occasional exception though, the people who this site "outs" generally deserve it. These are innocent kids that some creepy weirdo is messing with. I just read the page and I'm disgusted such "people" exist in the world.

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[Milton Roe]

Oh, please, like this place is any better? WR regulars have spent countless hours compiling personal info, editing habits, juicy info and whatnot into various threads over the years....there is an entire subforum on "Notable Editors", even. Go look at how much effort has been expended to out Slim and Jayjg, for starters.

ED does it with liberal does of "LOL F4G" speak, while WR pats itself on the back for every bon mot you yahoos toss around. I mean, seriously, can anyone read an Awbrey post with a straight face?

Two sides of the same coin.

Very astute of you. For example, I know that Awbrey often poses as Justin Beiber to 13 year-old girls on Facebook, then threatens to post their private info on the net when he has it, unless they write in their Facebook accounts "I like ****** **** up my ***."

Yes, he does it all in ancient Greek, for sure, but that doesn't change the essential nature of it. It's just slightly more challenging for the reader to follow (not to mention the girls). It makes WR a more highbrow site, but actually we're still just as evil. You know we are.

[Tarc]

Very astute of you. For example, I know that Awbrey often poses as Justin Beiber to 13 year-old girls on Facebook, then threatens to post their private info on the net when he has it, unless they write in their Facebook accounts "I like ****** **** up my ***."

My real-life nickname is also that is also that of a famous musician, and I used to use this name as my handle on various Unix machines back in the early/mid 90's. Somehow my accounts were visible to the outside world and I was flooded...and I mean flooded...with e-mails from 15 year-old girls professing their undying love, providing their home addresses and phone numbers, thinking they they were privileged enough to have found the secret e-mail address of Mr. Celebrity. Being an immature 19 yr old at the time, I called a few of them to fuck around. Some I pretended to be Mr. Celebrity and messed with them a bit, but that got tiring quickly so I then berated them for being gullible. If their parents answered, I told them to keep a better eye on their retarded kids.

So, would my grizzled, 40-ish self pull this fake Bieber shtick? No. But I find I have little sympathy for the gullibility/stupidity of teens who think a famous person is actually taking a personal interest in them. I've been there, and teaching gullible people a lesson isn't always a bad thing, as harsh as the tactics may be.


Apart from the Bieber Fever junk though, overall ED was simply a very amusing website that was quite handy to link to from time to time. Whether it is mbz's fanboys trying to get into her panties or the general whining of the "omg don't delete my article, it has a million google hits!" brigade, something has been lost. "Oh Internet" is the kind of site my grandmother would find funny. I mean, Broccoli dog? Seriously?