News aggregators like high-street.org are the proverbial pigeons in the mine shaft. Our traffic volume has increased as more and more of them give up the ghost.

Too much money is crushing too few credible news stories, a classic case of 'demand-pull inflation'?

Reddit, Gawker, Fark, and Drudge all seem to betray the same yawning, "Who gives a fuck anymore?"

It'll surprise me if this not our last Christmas.

What do you think?

I think our basic problem is that most of us who have been around since the Cruel Era of the late 90s are suffering from increasing emotional maturity.  My Inner Vicious Asshole is becoming a less important part of my personality, so I'm feeling less imperative to vent the toxins it produces in a way that doesn't screw over my life in meatspace.  Then there's the matter of some people, like Sofie, finding that increasing responsibilities at work keep them from playing at sites like this.  I’ve become friends on Facebook with people whose Inner Vicious Assholes used to fight with my Inner Vicious Asshole.  Knowing that I like their real life personalities makes it difficult to have epic battles with them here.  Perhaps some of the people who drive our increased traffic need to start displaying their inner demons here.

I don't need the hatred, I'm here for the cool stuff -> pictures and movies and links to news articles about idiots.  You can sit on CNN (or whatever) and hit F5 all day and nothing ever changes, it's like nothing is happening in the world.  We all know that's bullshit, things are happening every where constantly and some of them are fucking hilarious.

Oh and also I like pretty redheads.

And melons, I like Melons.

There's no going back to the good ole days. Images are no longer disturbing anymore (except for those naked spit smelling ginger pics). Outside of the occasional meat spin website, we've  seen it all, I think. On the news front, the state of Florida alone has vomited out so many "grandmother caught fingering corpse's butt hole"  stories that we have grown tired of those too. Fnord burned through every funny "black people acting like a fool" video ever created in a matter of months so there's nothing left in that treasure chest. Thanks, fnord.
What do we do to get our jollies now? Argue God damn boring assed politics and look at those fucking gross as fuck naked red head pics. WTF?

Last edited by Banjo (2013-12-07 18:42:20)

It seems there's a war on High-Street Christmas....

To add some data to the conversation, here are traffic statistics going back as far as we have history available.  Note that a "request" is any hit on the site, whether it's for an individual image, file, thread, etc.  A "request for page" only includes hits to threads, forum listings, etc. (anything ending in .php, .html, or for a directory) and is a better indicator of how many people are actually reading the site.

Note that hits (for pages or otherwise) by robots are not excluded, so each hit does not necessarily represent a human viewing something.

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Analysed requests from Thu-18-Dec-2008 23:21 to Sun-08-Dec-2013 03:32 (1815.17 days).

General Summary
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This report contains overall statistics.

(Figures in parentheses refer to the 7-day period ending 08-Dec-2013 03:29).

Successful requests: 75,504,895 (234,523)
Average successful requests per day: 41,596 (33,503)
Successful requests for pages: 31,551,247 (164,405)
Average successful requests for pages per day: 17,381 (23,486)
Failed requests: 715,378 (1,783)
Redirected requests: 672,169 (1,790)
Distinct files requested: 460,085 (81,145)
Distinct hosts served: 1,320,421 (6,238)
Corrupt logfile lines: 7,580
Unwanted logfile entries: 12,216,215
Data transferred: 2.71 terabytes (8.52 gigabytes)
Average data transferred per day: 1.53 gigabytes (1.22 gigabytes)
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Monthly Report
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This report lists the activity in each month.

Each unit (+) represents 30,000 requests for pages or part thereof.

month	reqs	pages
Jan 2009	1483755	349473	++++++++++++
Feb 2009	1244785	270230	++++++++++
Mar 2009	1327314	306721	+++++++++++
Apr 2009	1438468	342714	++++++++++++
May 2009	1645969	393427	++++++++++++++
Jun 2009	1570194	361344	+++++++++++++
Jul 2009	1444446	340518	++++++++++++
Aug 2009	2039277	401808	++++++++++++++
Sep 2009	1934191	507604	+++++++++++++++++
Oct 2009	1818100	430988	+++++++++++++++
Nov 2009	1378249	343859	++++++++++++
Dec 2009	1454599	334413	++++++++++++
month	reqs	pages
Jan 2010	1492444	386112	+++++++++++++
Feb 2010	1417930	373066	+++++++++++++
Mar 2010	1489290	356798	++++++++++++
Apr 2010	1398596	389130	+++++++++++++
May 2010	1292677	373471	+++++++++++++
Jun 2010	1103896	287815	++++++++++
Jul 2010	1216172	321956	+++++++++++
Aug 2010	1099771	288982	++++++++++
Sep 2010	1068411	329428	+++++++++++
Oct 2010	1109264	314782	+++++++++++
Nov 2010	1085365	363363	+++++++++++++
Dec 2010	1167781	433395	+++++++++++++++
month	reqs	pages
Jan 2011	1257564	425919	+++++++++++++++
Feb 2011	1055574	422571	+++++++++++++++
Mar 2011	1230866	553749	+++++++++++++++++++
Apr 2011	1234168	602227	+++++++++++++++++++++
May 2011	1060191	461492	++++++++++++++++
Jun 2011	888655	374181	+++++++++++++
Jul 2011	910790	361945	+++++++++++++
Aug 2011	926084	376074	+++++++++++++
Sep 2011	940445	454849	++++++++++++++++
Oct 2011	1277005	805064	+++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Nov 2011	1472458	936232	++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Dec 2011	1215842	675737	+++++++++++++++++++++++
month	reqs	pages
Jan 2012	1074543	529311	++++++++++++++++++
Feb 2012	1064269	482646	+++++++++++++++++
Mar 2012	1305159	612485	+++++++++++++++++++++
Apr 2012	1254817	624347	+++++++++++++++++++++
May 2012	1346825	757499	++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Jun 2012	1245282	711218	++++++++++++++++++++++++
Jul 2012	1169211	669452	+++++++++++++++++++++++
Aug 2012	1204091	633220	++++++++++++++++++++++
Sep 2012	1330248	753746	++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Oct 2012	1311871	747630	+++++++++++++++++++++++++
Nov 2012	1259280	730029	+++++++++++++++++++++++++
Dec 2012	1548280	1030655	+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
month	reqs	pages
Jan 2013	1245762	757149	++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Feb 2013	946639	506014	+++++++++++++++++
Mar 2013	1184035	690849	++++++++++++++++++++++++
Apr 2013	1238572	799850	+++++++++++++++++++++++++++
May 2013	1505518	1069205	++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Jun 2013	1155644	788204	+++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Jul 2013	1095199	705107	++++++++++++++++++++++++
Aug 2013	1100533	717278	++++++++++++++++++++++++
Sep 2013	902391	535208	++++++++++++++++++
Oct 2013	940152	603671	+++++++++++++++++++++
Nov 2013	1086298	735909	+++++++++++++++++++++++++

Busiest month: May 2013 (1,069,205 requests for pages).

Last edited by square (2013-12-08 03:50:28)

I can't say I visit often, and it might be because I interact with a lot of HS'ers and ex Cruellers on Facebook regularly.  Also, my inner asshole seems to have matured as well.  And I feel like I've seen everything shocking or obnoxious on the internet - or at least some variety of it.

Plus with my new clearance at work, visiting this site would not be very smart on a government computer. 

Still miss you all (well some of you).

Free the bound periodicals!

RT

choad wrote:

News accounts were and remain our primary fuel and the well is running dry. Newsrooms are hobbled by skeleton staffs of the enfeebled, those lacking the chops to find employment elsewhere. Their sources don't trust them, and their readers yawn looking elsewhere while ad revenues race to the bottom. Its untenable. Worse, it's fucking boring.

The fish rots first from the head.

Just to add to the bad news.....

Sascrotch wrote:

Just a cyber-voyeur's two cents.

Perv.

XregnaR wrote:

Perv.

...

And?

Choad, how can you despair when we have Fox News to keep us warm?

Sascrotch wrote:

Long time listener, first time caller. I've never registered because, frankly, I was never sure I'd fit in.

You may well have described the only thing we all share in common.

choad wrote:

Sascrotch wrote:

Long time listener, first time caller. I've never registered because, frankly, I was never sure I'd fit in.

You may well have described the only thing we all share in common.

Then my wandering through the desert is over! 'Tis a Christmas miracle!

Fixed HTML - square

Last edited by square (2013-12-17 03:45:21)

Been out of the country on hiatus so missed this thread.

For me, This is a place to find old friends even though I know none of you IRL (at least that I know of). I know I can find another home somewhere on the web but I am not interested in that. As some have said and I agree, I no longer require the cruelty which was a needed part of my day years ago. As I have mellowed, so have we as a group (my opinion), and that also has been a good thing. I think if this had maintained the cruel aspect of past years, I probably would have moved on.

If High-Street dies, it will be mourned by me and I am sure others. I may not get to drop in as much as I would like, but I appreciate all the time I do get to spend with the folks here regardless. For whatever reason, I seem to find this a good fit. Thanks for that. (/corny reality)

NSFW

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sigmoid freud wrote:

choad wrote:

https://cruelery.com/img/hohoho.jpg

Did lol.

I've always suspected as much!

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Be sure to turn your speakers up if you're a masochist.