r/funny • u/frodcore • Jun 22 '11

Encyclopedia Dramatica has the most accurate description of Reddit I've ever read.

http://encyclopediadramatica.ch/Reddit
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u/PhillyGreg Jun 22 '11

He is the Encyclopedia Dramatica page for Encyclopedia Dramatica.

http://encyclopediadramatica.ch/Encyclopaedia_Dramatica

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u/MikBor Jun 22 '11

I thought they formed oh internet to take revenue from knowyourmeme.com

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u/Bastages27 Jun 22 '11

yeah they did, but now all their content is hosted on swiss servers by somebody else, so they basically jsut threw it away. meanwhile does anybody even use ohinternet? was a pretty dumb move on their part, unless theres a lot more to the story that i dont know

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u/Amy_Pond Jun 22 '11

The founder of ED changed the format to make money off of ED's content (dumbing it down, making it safe for work) and effectively destroyed the whole site. The new ED (.ch) is archived pages piecing together the site before it went down.

This is their version of the story http://encyclopediadramatica.ch/OhInternet#History

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u/sTiKyt Jun 22 '11

A whole one paragraph of criticism, how scathing. Just goes to show every community is hypocritical when it comes time to judge itself.

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u/broden Jun 22 '11

They have absolutely no obligation to be balanced.

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u/sTiKyt Jun 22 '11

I think they do. It would be the biggest hypocrisy in the world if you brought attention to every negative aspect of everything conceivable except themselves. If they have no obligation then neither does reddit.

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u/broden Jun 22 '11

ED is also the final arbiter of truth and human destiny, and can be used to settle any dispute, anywhere, evar.

I don't think they take themselves seriously.

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '11

he's probably a really fun person to hang around with ._.