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That is not the breaking point at all of the analogy-- that literally happens to my custom CMS/wiki/image host I built for my niche, kpopping.com. We are constantly attacked by crawlers. Meanwhile google rewards wordpress slop that buys backlinks with #1 pageranks for years. Welcome to the internet.

Meanwhile every ad my elderly family members get while playing some dipshit game on android is a literal scam and has been for ten fucking years...

"Malware detected" yeah I know where, too.

...But every search on google is bad UX between the AIOs and the millions of indian SEO scammers that have been brought to prominence the past few years

Back in Everquest, when we'd be accused of botting 20 years ago, we'd be ported by the GM into a special cube environment and they'd watch if we ran into the wall like an idiot-- we'll probably have to bring that sorta thing back.

i run a small wiki/image host and for me it's mainly:

4. they'll knock your server offline for everyone else trying to scrape thousands of albums at once while copying your users' uploads for their shitty discord bot and will be begging for donations the entire time too

yeahhh, but did you have a cool cjb.net redirect to show your friends in the progs channel?

Yeah and I'm sure you ran your mom's phone bill up calling one of those porn BBSes

personally i find people who use the wrong apostrophe, don't know how punctuation works with quotes and tell pointless stories to be grating. c´est la vie.

do people really blanket ban iranians? i run a large wiki platform for kpop and they're some of our best users-- i would much sooner ban ip addresses from the yookay.

like frogs around a pond, phaedo

was it their SSL that expired yesterday? i briefly remembered how much i hate the default interface

Just a bizarre pedantry that isn't even true-- he said clean your windows, not pump your gas.

I was in this guild on Sullon Zek!@

We were horribly outnumbered, had no gear, <Black Prophecy>, the one capable good aligned guild never helped us and we got rolled daily by giant hordes of well-geared evils and neuts...

but we were able to kill their alts afterwards in Kurn's Tower, and that's what counts.

edit: BTW, perhaps not as famous as fansy, but just as deserving the OG was skater gnome:

https://everquest.fandom.com/wiki/Skater_Gnome_Stories

Do people think McQuaid is a saint? Have they touched anything he's worked on in the past 25 years?? Pantheon isn't just the worst MMO I've ever played, it might just be the worst game I've ever played.

I was a janitor over at mrfixitonline, gamefaqs, casterrealms-- there definitely were guides up for these things if you knew where to look. I know, because I was making some of them. Maybe not at release, but within a few months... and by 2000, 2001, definitely we had everything covered.

Facilitates scams and has set consumer web tech back a few years, but other than that not much.

Oooh, I had the same deal but with cameras... Maybe they should pivot into a site showing deals w/ scammers.

Lol, counter to freaknomics, the truth(tm)

I'm nearly done after seeing the nonstop indianization of my topics on google.

Niches from motorcycles to tech to music have become a punjab yellowpages and no one is even talking about it.

Google the most popular korean boyband in the world "BTS"

6/7 of my results are indian domains. What's the point of even trying anymore when ESL slop like that gets a massive SERP advantage for years now and is only getting worse?

put a two state animation on those lil cartoon dudes up top and get rid of the yellow-tinted AI blog thumbnails and you'll be doing 50% better already

My website has a dedicated news portal and we don't have a paywall but a guiltwall where we beg for $3 a month like wikipedia does but less obtrusively (it'll even pop through most adblockers until you manually div block it)

It has been pretty effective.

Are... you under the impression that people who actually study history mock the Romans for their... use of lead? You need to read more actual sources than the hindustanitimes.com listicles if you're coming to this impression.

I've had so many people over the years (nearly all of them the kinds of people who looked like they never had to work a job in their lives) try to surreptitiously record my truck's plates when I was doing [redacted] in the city.

Don't worry though, every ticket the company got was billed right back to buildings we were working at in another form. The balance sheet always wins.

I just posted that Google is translating words that should be translated like "bastard" in foreign pop music (in this case, a member of the most popular boy band in the world, BTS) as racial slurs like the n-word. This is pretty much the worst case error scenario for a translation service.

https://kpopping.com/news/2025/Jun/17/Google-Translation-of-...

It's amazing more people aren't talking about this stuff, how incompetent do you have to be to allow racial slurs in translation, especially with all the weights towards being pro-diversity etc that already exist?

Just more enshittification from ol Sundar and the crew

Some things are best left to a youtube production team.

imagine being this fucking stupid and still opening your mouth. read a book about the era instead of getting your views from wikipedia and marvel movies retard

but for you, my dear retard, i'll make an exception:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficiency_movement

The premise of western civilization is that most of us are unfit idiots and natural slaves and we must fight to get out of our miserable subaltern state.

Do you know what the word most means?

technocracy, aka the progressive movement, aka the acknowledged antecedents of most this thread's political views -- funny how things change

I run one of the largest wikis in my niche and convincing the other people on my dev team to use gzip bombs as a defensive measure has been impossible-- they are convinced that it is a dangerous liability (EU-brained) and isn't worth pursuing.

Do you guys really use these things on real public-facing websites?