0256: "Online Communities"

[ArchangelShrike]

Bash, anyone? If you figure that every funny post was done by one/two people, you'd have a sizeable readership that communicates indirectly.

And the Internet Oracle. All those quote sites for stupid, funny goodness.

[gsail11]

poster ++

This could give me a (not much needed) excuse to pick up some shirts at the same time. I'm a sucker for saving on shipping *sighs*

(and alliteration apparently)

Did anyone else almost jump out of their chair when they realized that "and alliteration apparently" is also an alliteration?

yeahhh that made my day.


i love the series of tubes

[Mother Superior]

I *really* wish DNA had a small island somewhere near wikipedia, because h2g2 actually is the part of the internet I am from, since age 13, developed my writing skills, learned basic html, was introduced to my first internet community, grew to learn roleplaying and learned to know at least one really great friend there. But damn the bbc, it just isn't big enough, even though from what I hear, it's grown to enormous sizes these days.

[...]

Shouldn't Newgrounds be on there somewhere? Like, an undersea fortress off the coast of Soviet Russia? I come originally from an animation community (for the making, and not the obsessing over, thereof).

Maybe not, I suppose the actual community is quite small.

[Alpha Omicron]

Had to register to say: "Yay for Qwghlm!"

[skeptical scientist]

The print version of the online communities map seems to be missing a label. This label:


which is illegible in the online version of the map does not appear in the print version. Every other label seems to show up (and more besides!)

Does anyone know what it says?

[The LuigiManiac]

*Strains against monitor*

Check (or Chick)
Mates?

[Drake Zure]

looks like EVMMMNM to me, but then, my monitor sucks.

[Kiirani]

I think the consensus was that it's "C huck N orris". And I think that it was removed specifically to torment us with not knowing for sure.

Also, my poster is 100% awesome.

[The LuigiManiac]

That makes sense. I'm fairly certain the first word is CHvCK, where v represents some sort of vowel.

[grark]

haha the poster is awesome! but alas! no xkcdia
I put it up in my dorm room and I've been having people place their location on the map with post-its

[Anonymous##moot]

You have angered Anon.

Please explain faggotry

http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/6382 ... sedvf7.png

[Belial]

Please explain faggotry

Well, you see, when two men of the appropriate persuasion love each other very much, or just kindof like each other, or maybe just think they're hot, or maybe one of them is just really drunk and horny, they perform a special dance where one man *goes into* the other man and it feels really good for the both of them. Or maybe just one. Sometimes neither of them. You know how it goes. Sometimes, the man in back even reaches around to rub the man in front, which is really polite of him. He's a stand-up guy, him. And when the dance is over, sometimes they exchange a special kind of drink from their man-parts. And altogether, that's sometimes called 'Faggotry'. But it's rude to say in public. When you're outside of the house, you should really call it "man-love" or maybe just not talk about it at all. It's not really appropriate conversation.

Making 4chan small and insignificant has absolutely fuckall to do with that, though, and is just kindof funny. Which really makes your post rude and incoherent, more than anything.

I guess what I'm saying is: Fuck off.

[GhostWolfe]

You have angered Anon.

Yeah... that was somewhat random

[bbctol]

Please explain faggotry

Belial's explanation is quite thorough, but perhaps I should add a colloquial or "slang" definition. Occasionally, mild homophobes will use this this term to mean "Something worthless, irritating, or foolish." Such as your post. And you.

[owenja]

Such a fantastic comic.

Now, for the artists out there, I would suggest overlays a la SimCity. So far, potential views I've come up with are ad density, wealth concentration, and age (which could possibly be done as a contour map). I've also rejected population density (since that would be uniform the way the map was designed).

[william]

Please explain faggotry

Belial's explanation is quite thorough, but perhaps I should add a colloquial or "slang" definition. Occasionally, mild homophobes will use this this term to mean "Something worthless, irritating, or foolish." Such as your post. And you.

Also, the production of cigarettes in Britain.

[Vaniver]

Pff. Whenever 4chan gets riled up, all you have to do is bring down fchan and the furries will occupy them for a while. They sure love their furries.

[Sufimoru]

I finally got my poster.

I ordered it right away, but had it shipped to my old address.

Upon receiving it, it was so curled that it was vaguely reminescent of a pirate map.

I have since decided it is best kept in the cardboard tube to preserve this quality.

I have also decided to run a Pirates of the Blogipeligo campaign.

[__Kit]

Wheres the pr0n, I was looking for more in the sea of memes too, meh! Why am I complaining! Naughty, Dobby been bad!

Also: Just thinking that this is what the Earth may look like in the future, or may have looked like, cool! I love the geography of the map too, familiar... yet so incorrect.

[tessuraea]

Belial, I believe I might be in love with you. That was beautiful.

[sterling red]

Gee Willikers I registered here just to say how absolutely amazing this is. Not saying I wont stick around for more though. Oh, but I agree with whoever posted a while back about how GameFAQS is a fairly large community that needs an island, at least. And possibly LUELinks, but I'm not sure of their exact size.


Oh, and, lol at how your handling the message from /b/-although, you do realize, they could probably destroy xkcd?

[Syrin]

They wish. We are protected by the power of

SCIENCE!

And also tamed raptors.

[Vaniver]

Going back a month, that actually looks like "chasm" to me.

They wish. We are protected by the power of

SCIENCE!

And also tamed raptors.

While I doubt they could bring down xkcd (I hear our server is built to withstand very high volumes), it wouldn't surprise me if they could overwhelm our moderating staff. Even if they're all on, it would probably be 3-10 /b/tards per mod for a decent raid.

Of course, the lulz to be won would be minimal at best. It's not like our pools are full of AIDS.

[Belial]

Belial, I believe I might be in love with you

Aww shucks. T'weren't nothing.

While I doubt they could bring down xkcd (I hear our server is built to withstand very high volumes), it wouldn't surprise me if they could overwhelm our moderating staff. Even if they're all on, it would probably be 3-10 /b/tards per mod for a decent raid.

If at any point we end up with a bunch of SA Goons or /b/tards or any similar group of ass-clowns descending on our forum, it is a simple thing to delete a few accounts, and then switch registration-validation to manual.

It's always good to choke these things off as early as possible.

Just like Anon's mom.

[flatluigi]

Bash, anyone? If you figure that every funny post was done by one/two people, you'd have a sizeable readership that communicates indirectly.

(I can't let this go by.) If you take every funny post from bash and figure about 2 people were involved in each, you'd have about 20.

You may have a better chance of getting numbers if you take every racist joke.

note: above racist joke may actually be funny.

[crkdshad]

Hey, when will the Online Communities posters ship? I ordered mine today as it was listed as a preorder, but any timeframe as to when they will actually ship?

[Belial]

You'll want to email Randall about that. The "About" page on the main comic index should have the address.

[Sprocket]

An Amusing Exchange:

Me: It only just occurred to me how iconically similar xkcd and kol (Kingdom of Loathing) are.

Sandry: Oh yeah, totally. Though to some extent... really, don't all stick figures look the same?

Me: Racist

[vard]

I ordered the poster based on a thumbnail and it never occurred to me that the Well wouldn't be there. I know we're tiny but we're REALLY OLD!

[Puzzlemaker]

He forgot a big island. Porn island.

[FractalNinja]

I'm wondering about /b/'s location on the map. My friends and I have two theories:

1) It's the small, "B" shaped island in the east, or

II) It's the (unpictured) giant network of winding tunnels extending from 4chan island to all parts of all other communities, and (some say) into the fabled "real world".

['; DROP DATABASE;--]

He forgot a big island. Porn island.

The porn is all floating about in the ocean, tied to buoys, floating in Ziploc bags, or being distributed by guys on boats. There's also a significant amount of it floating around all the land masses.

[Eleyras]

II) It's the (unpictured) giant network of winding tunnels extending from 4chan island to all parts of all other communities, and (some say) into the fabled "real world".

Really, given how much random stuff that gets out from /b/ in a diluted form, I suspect this is the case.

[HedgehogsAreFunneh]

AWESOME comic. Simply AWESOME. With CAPITALS.

Also, what is this 4chan you all speak of?

[Master Gunner]

Also, what is this 4chan you all speak of?

You don't want to know.

[pKp]

Also, what is this 4chan you all speak of?

You really do not want to know.

Fix'd for emphasis. And truth.

[FractalNinja]

4chan is the home of /b/. /b/ is the birthplace of Anon. I think that technically makes it Hell in at least 4 religions.

[i like pi]

i saw runescape, and i thought it wasnt large enough for the map, but i guess 10 million (accounts, not people) are there, whereas, (i base my figures on the introduction thread) to be less than a million on xkcd.
it does need a "you are here"
also, it would be funny if there was a portion of runescape that said "moparscape rebellion"

[arbivark]

Had to register to say: "Yay for Qwghlm!"

"me too"
I've been finally reading the Baroque Cycle while marooned away from computer, and it's been long enough since i've read cryptonomicon, and I'm lazy, so it's only just now that I googled qwghlm which brought me back to this thread.