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ITT: we vote on youthanize.org (or whatever it's called) design
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Date: February 4th, 2011 2:55 PM Author: Mentally Impaired Haunting Senate #1: http://convergence.themedemo.net/
#2: http://grungy.timgweb.com/
#3: http://studiomw.co.uk/demo/inki-theme/
#4: http://curtziegler.com/sitedemo/wordpress-min/
#5: http://blueprint.freepsdtheme.com/
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Date: February 4th, 2011 2:57 PM Author: thriller university ladyboy #4 but i dont think democratic processes is particularly desirable for these porpoises (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1554171&forum_id=2#17212566) |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 2:59 PM Author: translucent roommate personal credit line cr. The contributors need to decide this. Which means that the contributors need to be identified first. Unless wrassler is going to take creative control of this project as well as administrative control, the contributors need to select each other.
Wrassler: your job as the primary cheerleader for this project is to get potential contributors excited about grouping together. |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 2:59 PM Author: puce locale so what, you think this blog should be ran like an XO secret society or something? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1554171&forum_id=2#17212576) |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 3:00 PM Author: translucent roommate personal credit line No, it should be run by the people who are contributing. It's not that complicated. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1554171&forum_id=2#17212582) |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 3:03 PM Author: puce locale whoever wants to help and do shit should help and do shit. wrassler is helping and doing shit. it's not that complicated. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1554171&forum_id=2#17212594) |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 3:04 PM Author: Mentally Impaired Haunting Senate titcr. trying to put in structure and rules and hierarchy at this point would kill it before it got started. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1554171&forum_id=2#17212601) |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 3:10 PM Author: translucent roommate personal credit line See below. You don't want to put in the structure, but you're already choosing the wallpaper? How about figuring out who the owners are first? Then they can develop any structure, rules, and hierarchy as they see fit. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1554171&forum_id=2#17212644) |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 3:01 PM Author: Mentally Impaired Haunting Senate i am not the guy who should be determining editorial direction / content. i'll throw ideas out there, set up this platform, work on marketing and curation of links - i'm good at all that stuff.
edit: yeah, i'm the cheerleader too. |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 3:07 PM Author: translucent roommate personal credit line Okay, cool. I actually appreciate your take-action approach, but right now the project isn't to the point of selecting the color of the wallpaper, or even building the frame, it's at creating the foundation. I'm willing to join you in cheerleading, but the next step for cheerleading is to encourage cleverdood, attidood, and solzy to take charge of the creative by 1) recruiting more posters and 2) deciding on the direction. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1554171&forum_id=2#17212626) |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 3:11 PM Author: Mentally Impaired Haunting Senate eh, i think it should get going and then take shape as it goes. i'm telling you, i've been involved in shit like this before, and too much planning at the beginning kills it. look at the other thread and see how just trying to decide on a name started to bog things down. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1554171&forum_id=2#17212650) |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 3:16 PM Author: translucent roommate personal credit line I agree, overplanning can kill a project. But so can premature decisions. And getting the contributors talking to each other isn't overplanning. It's a basic, necessary step.
Of course trying to decide on a name was going nowhere. Most of the people giving input weren't even likely contributors and the theme and content haven't been pinned down yet. |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 3:12 PM Author: puce locale again, you're just obsessed with making this a "top posters!!!1" blog. the people who are the best suited to blog style writing by and large aren't even whokebians, they're people like rascal, :D, TBF, etc.
and no, at this point it's better to get creative vomit on the floor and as many people participating as possible with a couple guys like wrassler collecting ideas and organizing them than to start out having a narrow set of posters calling all the shots. if you limit the scope and people who control it from the beginning it's much more likely to just fall by the wayside |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 3:13 PM Author: thriller university ladyboy agreed. :D should be the andy rooney of this brave new worlt. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1554171&forum_id=2#17212666) |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 3:14 PM Author: puce locale (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1554171&forum_id=2#17212678) |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 3:18 PM Author: marvelous main people did you see }:-[] or whatever's posts in the other thread? also, scott walker and blank moniker are pretty cut out for this. i'm not so sure about TBF but obviously :D is a top prospect (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1554171&forum_id=2#17212707) |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 3:20 PM Author: thriller university ladyboy no i have to sift through that thread more closely.
TBF could be a malcolm gladwell type figure. a block diesel engine dilettante that is polarizing. |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 3:24 PM Author: marvelous main people it was in the why do we hate boomers thread i'll bump (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1554171&forum_id=2#17212756) |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 3:25 PM Author: thriller university ladyboy please leave a link here. i'm not going to be around, but i'll have this thread bmed. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1554171&forum_id=2#17212765) |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 3:26 PM Author: marvelous main people http://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=1553963&forum_id=2 man (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1554171&forum_id=2#17212775) |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 3:25 PM Author: ebony bateful jewess hell wtf is going on (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1554171&forum_id=2#17212763) |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 3:13 PM Author: electric prole titcr, we need to just ignore this guy. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1554171&forum_id=2#17212668) |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 3:21 PM Author: translucent roommate personal credit line A bunch of posters who will never end up contributing voting on wallpaper until everyone gets bored and then having wrassler (the guy who has disavowed creative control) collecting and organizing the ideas is a structural choice, and a pretty shitty one.
Getting actual contributors together to brainstorm and identify their common cause is an alternative structural choice.
You're the one obsessing about attidood being too "whokebian" and not enough like rascal. |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 3:26 PM Author: marvelous main people i don't think this is necessarily wrong but i also don't think of the contributions and the wallpaper as the same kind of "creative control" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1554171&forum_id=2#17212770) |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 3:30 PM Author: puce locale before you "get actual contributors together" you have to sketch at least somewhat of a vision out for the blog. your approach would have us design the blog around a very specific subset of posters, whereas most other people would prefer to take the approach of creative vomit first, solidify the roster later. this allows for not only a wider range of ideas, but lets us incorporate the viewpoints of more posters. by doing so you're actually more likely to have a solid list of active contributors, because those who are deeply involved in the vomit phase are clearly more willing to commit themselves. if you just say "ok here are the top posters! let them handle it!" you're pretty much entirely counting on them to do everything, regardless of level of interest they have shown.
if someone is interested and has good ideas, they should participate at this point. it's that fucking simple. limiting yourself before the project even gets off the ground makes it far more likely to be never see the light of day |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 4:01 PM Author: translucent roommate personal credit line There already is a sketch of at least somewhat of a vision out. That's what got attidood, cleverdood, and solzy interested in the first place.
No matter how you break up the problem of creating the site or in what order you address the issues, every decision is limiting (even hypothetically reversible decisions). You can't avoid limitations. The important thing is to make limiting decisions in the right order. |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 4:02 PM Author: Passionate nibblets pistol what do you have against whokebians? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1554171&forum_id=2#17213015) |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 4:05 PM Author: translucent roommate personal credit line He's bitter that his shitty posts don't get attention. That's why he's railing against a perceived "exclusive elite." He feels like an outsider. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1554171&forum_id=2#17213041) |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 4:07 PM Author: puce locale yeah man, thats exactly why. i have no intention of contributing to the blog, i'm just saying your ideas are pretty stupid and most seem to agree with me (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1554171&forum_id=2#17213062) |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 4:14 PM Author: translucent roommate personal credit line The wrassler agrees with you because you're telling him that what he already decided to do is right. Aside from him, solzy said that having the board vote on things like this right now didn't seem right and cleverdood agreed in principle with what I said (putting aside the specifics of the importance of wallpaper).
I don't think picking wallpaper right now is a big deal either, but the wrassler seemed intent on getting things running (including thematic and content decisions) before knowing who was going to contribute.
What's truly telling is the prospective administrator below talking about picking out the contributors. It's backwards. |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 4:15 PM Author: puce locale he's not "picking out" contributors like it's some fucking selective process. he's giving any reasonable dude who has shown significant interest a shot, which at this point is exactly what he should be doing. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1554171&forum_id=2#17213103) |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 4:21 PM Author: translucent roommate personal credit line LOL at an administrator giving others a creative "shot." Then he does have creative control. Not to mention the blog would be a clusterfuck from the beginning because the creative people never got together to decide what the fuck they are writing about. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1554171&forum_id=2#17213138) |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 4:38 PM Author: Mentally Impaired Haunting Senate like how xoxo is a creative clusterfuck? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1554171&forum_id=2#17213219) |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 4:40 PM Author: marvelous main people let's not get bogged down in these technical structural issues. it's obvious both that (1) it makes a ton of sense to be working to get specific posters because they'll provide good content and (2) it makes a ton of sense for somebody to keep the project going. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1554171&forum_id=2#17213229) |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 4:49 PM Author: Mentally Impaired Haunting Senate yes, titcr. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1554171&forum_id=2#17213286) |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 4:58 PM Author: thriller university ladyboy testing testing testing testing testing testing testing testing testing testing testing testing testing testing testing testing testing testing testing testing flare launch what is your gmail? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1554171&forum_id=2#17213354) |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 5:06 PM Author: Mentally Impaired Haunting Senate (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1554171&forum_id=2#17213402) |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 5:11 PM Author: thriller university ladyboy tattoo of a blue whale on james gandolfini's (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1554171&forum_id=2#17213437) |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 5:13 PM Author: Mentally Impaired Haunting Senate lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1554171&forum_id=2#17213449) |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 4:42 PM Author: translucent roommate personal credit line No. There's virtually no moderation on XO and anyone can sign up for an account...or multiple accounts. Unless that's how you envision the blog working, the two are have little in common, and creative control is a completely different beast in the case of the blog. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1554171&forum_id=2#17213244) |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 3:12 PM Author: thriller university ladyboy what's needed is a balance of whimsy, genuinely practicable information about are legal sector, & general interest content. imagine culling the best of all xo thread morphologies. i don't think it would be enough to draw in a particular niche of xo. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1554171&forum_id=2#17212661) |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 3:17 PM Author: Black curious newt no, the next step is to ignore/ban pumos (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1554171&forum_id=2#17212703) |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 3:00 PM Author: Mentally Impaired Haunting Senate you're probably right, this thread was more about soliciting opinion. so your vote is something very minimalist.
i like your idea for a law board tab. we'll bolt on vbulletin as a community section. |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 4:00 PM Author: Aphrodisiac depressive sound barrier I think we will use http://www.phpbb.com/ for now. Don't have $500 to throw away on this right now. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1554171&forum_id=2#17212995) |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 4:05 PM Author: Mentally Impaired Haunting Senate oh yeah sure. i forgot about the license for vbulliten. point is we only need a very basic forum, if we bolt one on at all. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1554171&forum_id=2#17213042) |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 4:07 PM Author: Aphrodisiac depressive sound barrier I'm going to put on phpBB for now. I hacked in Google Analytics and Disqus. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1554171&forum_id=2#17213061) |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 2:59 PM Author: electric prole any of them except #3 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1554171&forum_id=2#17212575) |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 3:01 PM Author: puce locale 2 and 3 are bad
the others are fine, although personally 1-5-4 in that order |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 3:03 PM Author: Mentally Impaired Haunting Senate fwiw, from a functionality standpoint #1 looks the best. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1554171&forum_id=2#17212593) |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 3:07 PM Author: Bright stirring nowag whatever solzy says (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1554171&forum_id=2#17212624) |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 5:29 PM Author: Dashing wine garrison boltzmann (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1554171&forum_id=2#17213534) |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 3:08 PM Author: Aphrodisiac depressive sound barrier I have thesoleless.com up and running. So we need content. Wrassler has an admin account. Gooddood and Attidood should also have admin. They should post an xo email so I can give them that info. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1554171&forum_id=2#17212632) |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 3:17 PM Author: Bright stirring nowag maybe use this image in the top header
http://bootstrapper.ca/wp-content/uploads/bootstrap.png |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 4:12 PM Author: chocolate sanctuary sneaky criminal honored, but i got too much IRL stuff going on to be involved in any big way.
<3 though, GL |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 3:35 PM Author: Mentally Impaired Haunting Senate i threw together a logo. give me a sec to upload it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1554171&forum_id=2#17212833) |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 3:42 PM Author: Aphrodisiac depressive sound barrier Any luck getting other users on board? Looks like the peanut gallery is vocal but shiftless. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1554171&forum_id=2#17212875) |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 3:48 PM Author: Mentally Impaired Haunting Senate there are a bunch of people who want to contribute. in fact, i'm really surprised by the amount of enthusiasm. we just gotta get the platform up and running i think.
there's a small but vocal minority who want to run shit and are talking about structure and responsibilities and what not and they need to stfu. |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 3:50 PM Author: Aphrodisiac depressive sound barrier well lets hand out logins to the good content doods (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1554171&forum_id=2#17212928) |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 3:56 PM Author: translucent roommate personal credit line LOL at ohnoesII. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1554171&forum_id=2#17212981) |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 3:52 PM Author: Amethyst motley trust fund 3 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1554171&forum_id=2#17212942) |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 4:06 PM Author: Mentally Impaired Haunting Senate simple logo: http://imgur.com/iEy1T (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1554171&forum_id=2#17213050) |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 4:07 PM Author: marvelous main people i like this man but it seems a little too journalistic for me. i was thinking more something like a wrinkly bomb with white hair about to blow up and next to it a syringe with a lot of tiny hipsters in it. that's for youthanize (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1554171&forum_id=2#17213063) |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 4:09 PM Author: Mentally Impaired Haunting Senate yeah, people were saying in the other thread that they wanted a positive spin - youth trying to find jobs. i was against it. i like a fuck boomers angle. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1554171&forum_id=2#17213064) |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 4:33 PM Author: ebony bateful jewess hell yeah fuck boomers is about so much more than just jobs. plus a fuck boomers angle has a lot more energy. although really to me it would be more of a fuck boomerism thing than boomers per se (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1554171&forum_id=2#17213201) |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 4:09 PM Author: Grizzly fanboi gay wizard make this happen (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1554171&forum_id=2#17213067) |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 4:10 PM Author: marvelous main people i can't do graphics man but if people think it's a good idea somebody else should do it and take credit. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1554171&forum_id=2#17213071) |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 4:13 PM Author: Irradiated rebellious becky locus fuck no, man, the point is not to make it look RAGE AGAINST THE MAN shit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1554171&forum_id=2#17213090) |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 4:14 PM Author: marvelous main people ok man i guess i'm not sure what the point is image-wise, i'll stick to written content (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1554171&forum_id=2#17213093) |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 4:20 PM Author: marvelous main people just one last point: the idea is kind of intentionally over-the-top and ironic, i thought that was an implicit part of its appeal (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1554171&forum_id=2#17213128) |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 4:27 PM Author: ebony bateful jewess hell yeah man i think if this thing is supposed to capture the mood that's developed on xo at all then it needs that sort of post irony where ur not even reflecting about whether ur being serious or not ur just putting it out there. over-the-top can def achieve that (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1554171&forum_id=2#17213164) |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 4:18 PM Author: Mentally Impaired Haunting Senate could i get ftp access? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1554171&forum_id=2#17213118) |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 4:39 PM Author: Aphrodisiac depressive sound barrier Unfortunately, no. Tell me what you need to upload. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1554171&forum_id=2#17213222) |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 4:42 PM Author: Frisky people who are hurt stage lol, and the struggle begins. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1554171&forum_id=2#17213241) |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 4:43 PM Author: Aphrodisiac depressive sound barrier No, not at all. I'm using a shared host so ftp access would out me. =( (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1554171&forum_id=2#17213251) |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 4:45 PM Author: translucent roommate personal credit line And that's a pretty fucking important issue that needs resolution for any potential contributors. What a clusterfuck. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1554171&forum_id=2#17213257) |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 4:45 PM Author: marvelous main people we should make a list of these and talk them out all at once (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1554171&forum_id=2#17213262) |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 4:47 PM Author: puce locale or you could just make a thread saying "PEOPLE WHO WANT TO CONTRIBUTE TO XO BLOG, GET ITT AND PROPOSE WHAT KIND OF SHIT YOU WOULD WRITE AND PROVIDE A SAMPLE"
edit: nm, i thought you meant a list of possible contributors |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 4:49 PM Author: translucent roommate personal credit line Sounds too structured; too many rules. Everyone should just submit to the wrassler and thewaywardslash and see if their submissions ever get posted. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1554171&forum_id=2#17213285) |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 4:49 PM Author: puce locale a pumo is an uppity faggot, why? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1554171&forum_id=2#17213290) |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 4:50 PM Author: translucent roommate personal credit line Stop harshing on me with your structured judgments, man. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1554171&forum_id=2#17213295) |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 5:07 PM Author: Mentally Impaired Haunting Senate http://trollcats.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/get_fucked_trollcat.jpg (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1554171&forum_id=2#17213409) |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 4:43 PM Author: translucent roommate personal credit line (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1554171&forum_id=2#17213252) |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 4:43 PM Author: Mentally Impaired Haunting Senate i was going to swap out the logo. if you can for now, just grab it from the imgur link above, resize it, and drop it in the /convergence theme folder.
i don't need the admin cpanel access - you could just set me up as a new FTP account. that way you still control hosting, but i can edit files. up to you though.
edit: oh, i see what you said about shared host. do you have the ability to create limited FTP accounts? if you create an account that sets the soleless.com public_html dir as root, then i won't be able to see anything else. but, i completely understand if you're worried about it. this is just temporary until we get the Katz Global shit up and running anyway. |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 4:26 PM Author: walnut vivacious parlor #4 OFS (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1554171&forum_id=2#17213161) |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 4:40 PM Author: Aphrodisiac depressive sound barrier I have a board up but who knows if it works.
www.thesoleless.com/board |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 4:47 PM Author: red queen of the night spot #4 reminds me most of xo. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1554171&forum_id=2#17213270) |
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Date: February 4th, 2011 5:14 PM Author: Glittery Bossy Set what the hell is going on? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1554171&forum_id=2#17213455) |
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Date: May 11th, 2011 10:45 PM Author: demanding stimulating church (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1554171&forum_id=2#17984105) |