as it is no secret, i hate fark (not necessarily the people) ... but the other day someone was askin' me to explain what it was ... i did my best to explain the difference between fark and totalfark, what a thread is, what a greenlight is, etc ... and after explaining what i know about it, this friend asked, "well, who gets paid then ?" ... it was then i realized that all you (funny, interesting) folks out there with totalfark accounts (gunnin to put up threads) are essentially paying to work ... that made me laugh, and then it made me sad ... let me explain, i have a problem with fark, the same way some people (myself included) have a problem with starbucks ... it seems to be the juggernaut blog/board "chain" that is consuming potentially hundreds of independents who instead jump on the bandwagon ... i'm assuming this is a combination of laziness (ie not wanting to go through the effort of starting/promoting one's own blog/board) and wanting to jump right into the limelight ... cause don't get me wrong, i seent some funny stuff up on that site for sure, but it's not like wonkette where the editors are actually writing and finding articles, it's all by people that could be runnin' their own scene, but instead succumb to the "community" of fark ... and that's a
whole 'nother rant right there ... but ... last i checked, blogger is still free .... and this lil' blog (according to my google analytics account) gets between 30-50 hits a day ... and the bluntest only has 3 "contributers" hardly any serious discourse ... and mostly jus silly stuff, cnn articles, and the occasional week old celebrity scandal ...
i still can't get over it, ya'll pay to work and help inflate other people's salaries ... that's ... strange ...
i welcome any reply, albeit civil ...
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3 comments:
You have a lot of internet aggression you need to work out. Fark is a simple news aggregator and isn't even the biggest one on the internet.
Also, if it makes you feel better, I've only submitted about twenty stories in the two years I have been on site.
Loosen your skirt, nancy.
whoa, wait, what !? what aggression ? if that isn't the definition of a civil call for discourse, i don't know what is ... or is that yer so use to dealin' with trolls that you don't know what a regular conversation is like ... OH HO HO HO SICK BURN!
anyway
yes, i am picking on fark, but it's cause its the only one i know well enough that i feel i can talk about ... it'd be even worse if i was rantin' n ravin' about some website i had absolutely no ties to ... and hey-zues christos! it's not like i'm a mad hater, i fuckin record yer podcast, dick!
anyway
i even called the people that contribute "funny", and "interesting", and "etc" ... i mean, i dont call people "etc" everyday mang ...
my point was simply that the operations of it (to me) are strange! jus like i think people spending 2.50 for a cup of shitty acidic coffee is strange (to me) or that i can only score 5-6 bux a john for pullin dick ... i mean, HAVE YOU SEEN THESE LIPS!?
so, address what i'm talkin about in the post and stop whining about how much i hate fark ... that's not what the post was about!
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I have talked to the guy who owns Fark and he said that about 90% of the links to news stories on Fark are submitted by someone at the site being linked. All the major news pages have people whose job it is to submit their links to all the news aggregators to drum up traffic.
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