Oh, Cracked, you certainly CAN be funny sometimes, I have to admit :D !
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Sunday, December 16, 2012
I just wanted to be honest when making a new Cracked account :P
Oh, Cracked, you certainly CAN be funny sometimes, I have to admit :D !
(cross-posted to our Tumblr: http://cheesy-wongs.tumblr.com/ )
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Blog Transfer
This blog is being transferred over to SIRKIT77, formerly known as Ono-Sendai. He has been one of the most vocal critics of this whole incident, and this blog rightfully belongs to him. I will stay on and possibly respond to comments, but I don't have any plans on making any more posts at this time. Whatever happens to this blog is under his sole discretion. Thank you for all your continued support and comments.
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Last Post
I am officially retiring this blog. Way too many immature folks have hijacked the comments on both sides of the debate. I will leave this blog up as a reminder of what happened and as a place of unmoderated discussion for the "Cracked exiles." Anyone who wishes to participate in "Quit Cracked Day" can continue to do so. I may still post and reply to comments, but this blog will have no more posts. Stay Cracked, my friends!
Monday, December 3, 2012
Quit Cracked Day
So it seems that the situation is, unfortunately, quieting down. It's extremely difficult going up against something that wields that much power. But we did what we could with what precious few "resources" we had.
However, let me make one last proposal. I propose that we have a "Quit Cracked Day." This is the same strategy implemented on one of the most popular websites in the world, Digg. Digg was formerly one of the largest and most influential websites in the world. They implemented a horrible design change that revamped their website to such an extent that the users left in droves. If you haven't heard anything from them in the past two years, it's because they were successful.
I suggest we do the same. I don't have any naive expectations about the success of this plan. I realize that the success of this plan depends entirely on getting the word out and whoever is willing to participate. I also realize that there are also many people who are either against us or simply unaware of our situation to act. I am very well aware that this plan could easily amount to nothing.
However, I am also of the opinion that it is far better to stand up for a principle even if nobody pays attention. I suggest we go out with a bang, rather than a whimper.
This is the tentative plan. Anyone is welcome to submit ideas for changing it. The date will be December 9, which is one week after the mass deletions/bannings took place. Everyone will simply not go to the website for any reason. Do not go there to see what articles there are, do not go there to post comments assuming your account is still active, do not go there to vote up any comments. Simply do not have the name "cracked.com" anywhere in your web browser at all. And simply continue to not visit indefinitely unless the following conditions are met:
1. All accounts that were unjustly banned are reinstated and
2. A public apology is issued by one of the officials on the site.
Note that it does not matter if your specific account is reinstated. All accounts that you know of should be reinstated before visiting the site. Also, a public apology must be issued. Not one in a PM addressed specifically to you. It must be somewhere prominent like in the forums, one of their Twitter's, Facebook, or even the main website. No one will visit the website unless those two very specific conditions are met.
Again, I don't have any naive notions about the success of this plan. This all depends on you. Rally as many people as you know and make this plan a success on December 9. If nothing else, we are making one last, well-deserved statement. Stay Cracked, my friends!
However, let me make one last proposal. I propose that we have a "Quit Cracked Day." This is the same strategy implemented on one of the most popular websites in the world, Digg. Digg was formerly one of the largest and most influential websites in the world. They implemented a horrible design change that revamped their website to such an extent that the users left in droves. If you haven't heard anything from them in the past two years, it's because they were successful.
I suggest we do the same. I don't have any naive expectations about the success of this plan. I realize that the success of this plan depends entirely on getting the word out and whoever is willing to participate. I also realize that there are also many people who are either against us or simply unaware of our situation to act. I am very well aware that this plan could easily amount to nothing.
However, I am also of the opinion that it is far better to stand up for a principle even if nobody pays attention. I suggest we go out with a bang, rather than a whimper.
This is the tentative plan. Anyone is welcome to submit ideas for changing it. The date will be December 9, which is one week after the mass deletions/bannings took place. Everyone will simply not go to the website for any reason. Do not go there to see what articles there are, do not go there to post comments assuming your account is still active, do not go there to vote up any comments. Simply do not have the name "cracked.com" anywhere in your web browser at all. And simply continue to not visit indefinitely unless the following conditions are met:
1. All accounts that were unjustly banned are reinstated and
2. A public apology is issued by one of the officials on the site.
Note that it does not matter if your specific account is reinstated. All accounts that you know of should be reinstated before visiting the site. Also, a public apology must be issued. Not one in a PM addressed specifically to you. It must be somewhere prominent like in the forums, one of their Twitter's, Facebook, or even the main website. No one will visit the website unless those two very specific conditions are met.
Again, I don't have any naive notions about the success of this plan. This all depends on you. Rally as many people as you know and make this plan a success on December 9. If nothing else, we are making one last, well-deserved statement. Stay Cracked, my friends!
Sunday, December 2, 2012
The John Cheese Incident
If anyone happens to stumble upon this, I humbly ask you to share it with anyone you think would be interested. I don't plan on updating this very frequently, especially after this crazy incident is behind us. The only reason I made this was to call the Cracked.com staff out on their very poor handling of this incident.
Here's a recount of the event. On November 29, the Cracked columnist John Cheese posted an article entitled, "5 Popular Jokes That Only Make People Want To Punch You." The article is pretty typical of a Cracked article, and even more typical of a John Cheese article. Most people found most of the article fairly easy to agree with. However, "derision" set in on his final points, which criticized memes and puns as a low form of comedy. Some of the more popular commenters like Darkstrolm and ConspiracyKeanu put on sad smilies to express their discontent. It was a joke of course, meant to bring humor to a somewhat awkward situation. From there, things took a turn for the worse. Many people were upset at John Cheese and called him out on it as commenters are wont to do. Most of the comments, while disagreeable, were civil, as most Cracked comments sections (contrary to popular belief) are. Some took it to a different level by posting John Cheese's personal information. Those who did were ridiculed vehemently by the rest of the commenters on the site. However, John Cheese took a different turn. He called the commenters names like "shit-smearing-toddlers" and "child-fuckers." To be fair, he probably had people shout worse back at him, but the problem was that he made a massive generalization and asserted that the comments section in general was like this, when it was clearly not. He would know that if he actually read the comments section, which he has asserted in the past that he does not.
If that had been the end of it, everyone would have moved on. But the worst was yet to come. People took to the forums to express their discontent with the situation. This resulted in David Wong banning nearly every user from the forums disagreeing with them. Keep in mind that the vast majority of these posts were respectfully disagreeing with John Cheese, not lambasting him. At last count, I could only see 2 posts that disagreed with John Cheese, and they were by popular Cracked commenters who could easily spread the word if they were banned for no reason. However, word got out anyways, with Wong calling the commenters "cockroaches." Because my IP address has been banned, I cannot check the forums to see what is currently going on.
Even then, everyone might have moved on. Then on December 2, the staff started taking down comments and banning people en masse. For simply disagreeing with the article! I myself got 2 accounts banned. One was ryanms92 and the other was rms92. On the article "The 6 Least Intimidating Military Logos Ever," I posted a comment that reads as follows:
"I apologize if I'm ruining anyone's enjoyment of this article, but I feel this is important. I was just banned from Cracked. My username is ryanms92. I did not participate in the forums and to my knowledge, committed no offense against Cracked's User Policy. The only thing I could possibly think of that would have gotten me banned was me making a dumb crack at John Cheese in the comments section. Not the forum, the comments. In this very article. I also have no access to the forums. I hope that this was simply a mistake, but if it is not, I am ashamed of the attitude of the people on this website. This place is becoming more and more unfriendly by the minute. I would like to see my account reinstated immediately or given an explanation as to why I was banned. I find this behavior completely unacceptable. I doubt my comment will last long, so as a last request, I humbly ask those of you reading it to thumbs up my comment so that anyone going through the same thing will know they are not alone. Again, I apologize for being so morbid on a Cracked article, but I feel this is very important, not just to me, but to all Cracked users as a whole. Thank you."
At the time of this posting the account has been banned and I cannot post comments, but the post surprisingly remains. Whether this is because they failed to notice it or if it's the fact that it's highly rated remains to be seen. Either way, this will remain as evidence of the fact.
Cracked is doing a great disservice to its readership here. I can only hope that this situation is rectified. In the meantime, we need to get the word out and call Cracked out on their despicable display towards the people that make their website the most visited humor website in the world! I will post updates as the situation progresses. I am busy so I don't know how often I will be able to update, but I plan to check daily to see if anything warrants an update. Feel free to add my ryanms92 or rms92 accounts as a friend. As of now, I think I can still send messages, so at least we have that. Stay Cracked, my friends!
EDIT: OK, now I can't send messages anymore. Never mind.
Here's a recount of the event. On November 29, the Cracked columnist John Cheese posted an article entitled, "5 Popular Jokes That Only Make People Want To Punch You." The article is pretty typical of a Cracked article, and even more typical of a John Cheese article. Most people found most of the article fairly easy to agree with. However, "derision" set in on his final points, which criticized memes and puns as a low form of comedy. Some of the more popular commenters like Darkstrolm and ConspiracyKeanu put on sad smilies to express their discontent. It was a joke of course, meant to bring humor to a somewhat awkward situation. From there, things took a turn for the worse. Many people were upset at John Cheese and called him out on it as commenters are wont to do. Most of the comments, while disagreeable, were civil, as most Cracked comments sections (contrary to popular belief) are. Some took it to a different level by posting John Cheese's personal information. Those who did were ridiculed vehemently by the rest of the commenters on the site. However, John Cheese took a different turn. He called the commenters names like "shit-smearing-toddlers" and "child-fuckers." To be fair, he probably had people shout worse back at him, but the problem was that he made a massive generalization and asserted that the comments section in general was like this, when it was clearly not. He would know that if he actually read the comments section, which he has asserted in the past that he does not.
If that had been the end of it, everyone would have moved on. But the worst was yet to come. People took to the forums to express their discontent with the situation. This resulted in David Wong banning nearly every user from the forums disagreeing with them. Keep in mind that the vast majority of these posts were respectfully disagreeing with John Cheese, not lambasting him. At last count, I could only see 2 posts that disagreed with John Cheese, and they were by popular Cracked commenters who could easily spread the word if they were banned for no reason. However, word got out anyways, with Wong calling the commenters "cockroaches." Because my IP address has been banned, I cannot check the forums to see what is currently going on.
Even then, everyone might have moved on. Then on December 2, the staff started taking down comments and banning people en masse. For simply disagreeing with the article! I myself got 2 accounts banned. One was ryanms92 and the other was rms92. On the article "The 6 Least Intimidating Military Logos Ever," I posted a comment that reads as follows:
"I apologize if I'm ruining anyone's enjoyment of this article, but I feel this is important. I was just banned from Cracked. My username is ryanms92. I did not participate in the forums and to my knowledge, committed no offense against Cracked's User Policy. The only thing I could possibly think of that would have gotten me banned was me making a dumb crack at John Cheese in the comments section. Not the forum, the comments. In this very article. I also have no access to the forums. I hope that this was simply a mistake, but if it is not, I am ashamed of the attitude of the people on this website. This place is becoming more and more unfriendly by the minute. I would like to see my account reinstated immediately or given an explanation as to why I was banned. I find this behavior completely unacceptable. I doubt my comment will last long, so as a last request, I humbly ask those of you reading it to thumbs up my comment so that anyone going through the same thing will know they are not alone. Again, I apologize for being so morbid on a Cracked article, but I feel this is very important, not just to me, but to all Cracked users as a whole. Thank you."
At the time of this posting the account has been banned and I cannot post comments, but the post surprisingly remains. Whether this is because they failed to notice it or if it's the fact that it's highly rated remains to be seen. Either way, this will remain as evidence of the fact.
Cracked is doing a great disservice to its readership here. I can only hope that this situation is rectified. In the meantime, we need to get the word out and call Cracked out on their despicable display towards the people that make their website the most visited humor website in the world! I will post updates as the situation progresses. I am busy so I don't know how often I will be able to update, but I plan to check daily to see if anything warrants an update. Feel free to add my ryanms92 or rms92 accounts as a friend. As of now, I think I can still send messages, so at least we have that. Stay Cracked, my friends!
EDIT: OK, now I can't send messages anymore. Never mind.
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