I didn't vote.  I don't make banners and I only voted on one and I voted wrong on accident and I'm pissed about that.

We used to pick on each other but I think it was always fun because we exhausted our vitriol on noobs.  H-S has a distinct lack of noobs and most of you people wouldn't send a pizza to their houses anyway or find out that they wash dishes at the local Olive Garden, no not that one, the one on the other side of town.

On top of that it's like a rest home in here, most of you are too busy trying to get everyone together for a coffee klatch meet-up at the evolutionary descendants of Geocities to even worry about skewering new talent.

I say everyone quit bitching at Pale, Pale quit being such a fag, get Zookeeper back to write a code that drops banners based on some numerical statistic from the voting and let's argue about why we haven't yet done something about the horrible code used to create this place and why we can't make it look like other places so that it does attract more fresh meat.

jesusluvspegging wrote:

Scotty wrote:

why we can't make it look like other places so that it does attract more fresh meat.

Oh boy, avatars and graphical emoticons and thousand-pixel-tall signatures, oh my!

Those aspects of my requests are shit digging to irk Choad.  I'm thinking more along the lines of just something more user friendly like vBulletin.

Also, there needs to be a general idea to the front page that can be marketed.  Seems like this is just a giant Tagboard hidden from the rest of the intertubes for all of us to stay on our Cruel life support systems.

jesusluvspegging wrote:

You have some valid points, but this thread isn't the place to argue about them.

Really?  Well shit.

Two men enter, one man leaves!

Edit: fixed link.  -- square

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Well, clearly, this ridiculous poll would imply someone else was wanted. Nominees? And for what better purpose, I might ask? Do you think someone different is going to let your crap-ass, poorly constructed banners through, so that they can represent all of High Street when strangers, n00bz, and possible joins visit?

I find myself automatically saying shit like 'sue me,' but what I really mean is 'fuck you.' You don't have the props, the experience, or the eye for what fits. I've been doing it for how many months, nearing on a year, now? Let's just omit ten years of advertising and graphics experience in NYC, which I will regularly throw in your face because you have nothing more than dissent. No one ever had a problem before, and now suddenly it's worth a thread (rather, ANOTHER THREAD, like this is really some worthwhile, ongoing debate).

Let's back up for the sake of doing so. What's been so wrong with banner display and management thusfar? No one has really said anything concrete. Even if you hate my fucking guts, I serve a purpose. You're asking for a person to replace me when I haven't been favoring my own shit, catering to friends, or accepting shit that was merely inflammatory.

In case you hadn't noticed, when search engines cache HS pages. they do so with suitably offensive banners, on which we have all agreed. I have bowed to the voting process, even if I didn't agree with it.

What the fuck else do you want, other than 'not me,' which makes you an an asshole who should just say so directly, you passive-aggressive fucks? I do this thing that [mostly] no one else wants to do, and now I get shit for it, even when you have the wide open opportunity to vote up or down stuff you wanna see? You are a bunch of ungrateful, stupid bastards. Not for what I do, but for what anyone in this position might.

I spare you stretched out images, clichés, Comic Sans, regurgitations from the NSFW thread, etc. The banner is a thing that complete strangers see. I want to it SELL High Street; make it attractive and approachable to others who would agree with the environment. If you want to drive people away, just start listing your names below this.

By the time you're bitching that there's no one left to ride ass on, you'll have banners adapted from Fark, no new joins, and a bunch of ugly shit you're forced to allow to represent you. I dunno 'bout you, but I think more of the place than to let odd company catch us with our advert pants down.

If you just wanna say "Fuck you, Palephx," then have your outs, honestly and directly. I still do a job, and you don't. When you find someone to replace me, I hope he or she shows up at your doors to personally blow you, since that just ain't happenin'.

Sore Loser wrote:

I've been doing it for how many months, nearing on a year, now?

And you've bitched about doing the job for a large portion of that time.

Autocrat wrote:

By the time you're bitching that there's no one left to ride ass on, you'll have banners adapted from Fark, no new joins, and a bunch of ugly shit you're forced to allow to represent you.

All they have to do is vote it down, if it's ugly.  See, I'm trying to encourage participation here, something you're not so good at doing.

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Scotty wrote:

H-S has a distinct lack of noobs .

That is because they get nuked (mostly deservingly) into the dark ages instantly. Whatever happened to baiting? I'm still pissed about scaring Little Lindsay away. She was emailing me and everystuff. I possibly could have nailed her and you scary bastards ran her off.

karenw wrote:

If it pleases you to think of the rest of us as philistines . . .

Okay, I had no idea that Karen was a racist (The fact that she is from Indiana should have rather "Clued me in", I sup-pose).  Good to know.

karenw wrote:

You don't have the props, the experience, or the eye for what fits. I've been doing it for how many months, nearing on a year, now? Let's just omit ten years of advertising and graphics experience in NYC, which I will regularly throw in your face because you have nothing more than dissent.

Pale, do you honestly believe that you're the only one here with a good eye and/or design skillz? I've got more than 15 years of graphic design experience plus a background in visual arts. GO has a degree in oil painting, for fuck's sake.

If it pleases you to think of the rest of us as philistines, then go on doing so -- just know that, for the record, you are not the sole arbiter of taste or even salability. The rest of us simply don't feel the need to trumpet our credentials every five fucking minutes.

As someone who has made his living via graphics, art, and design, I kiss what ever body part you want Karen.

choad wrote:

It's cool, clear and gorgeous out tonight.

There's no-thing quite like the sounds of a quiet Maine night:  Crickets, frogs, and the oc-cassional "You can't there from here".  Lovely . . .  Simply lovely.

OK, I just ran across Pale's latest deletions. Pale: get a grip. The rest of you, I repeat: mellow out.

Taint wrote:

The rest of you, I repeat: mellow out.

No, what the fuck?  < TommyChong > Every-Time that I do meth, you start in with this whole "every time you do meth" shit. < /TommyChong >

karenw wrote:

Taint wrote:

The rest of you, I repeat: mellow out.

Spoilsport.

It's OK Karen. I wasn't wearing any underwear when I wrote that.

You ignored my post.  I am really... really put out.  You could wear that Girls Scout outfit and all.  Thanx!  Bai!

Spoilsport.

Dmtdust wrote:

As someone who has made his living via graphics, art, and design, I kiss what ever body part you want Karen.

Sorry, Dusty, I don't want you to feel left out. You can kiss my trusty paintbrush. Howzat?

Here's the bottom line: You're all a bunch of ungrateful whores. Suddenly, there's a complaint, for what reason, really? The actual input of new banners dropped off precipitously MONTHS AGO. I did it nearly this whole time because NO ONE ELSE WANTED TO, skilled or not. This is ALL a non-argument. I'm not here enough anymore, because you're all to busy sucking each other off to notice what the hell shows up at the top of the page, among other things. Feel free to give it to someone else, immediately. I don't want it at all. You can have some new assclown to kick around.

And as for the people with 'experience,' you can shove it up your ass right next to your head. If it took you years to admit you had any credentials to perform the job--never mind the stomach to put up with this noisome backsass--then you should have kept your mouth shut. You didn't raise your hand when the teacher called for someone to write the answer on the board, so screw you, especially because you didn't actually CONTRIBUTE much to the effort, and now bitch about it, for no reason at all.

You're not philistines. You're cannibals. You're stuck in a boat with nothing new to eat, so you'll eat each other.

pALEPHx wrote:

Here's the bottom line: You're all a bunch of ungrateful whores.

Hey, hey, hey, hey!  I do believe I have reiterated on several occasions I have no problem with you except your penchant for sucking cock.  And even on that point I can't manage much more than hyperbolic ePhobia.

Fled had submitted some banners of his usual quality and Pale was ragging him about them.

Thanks JLP -- I appreciate the gratuitous reference, but aside from banners my "usual quality" is "high."  Pale, however, is uniformly "ragging," and I wish he would just wrap the bloody thing up and throw it in the trash.

And Taint, I love you too, but in a platonic way.  If I could put all of my posts in comic sans just for you, I would.