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Interviews: Ask Fark Founder Drew Curtis a Question 127

For many, the day would not be complete without checking Fark.com for the latest funny or weird news. Inspired by the numerous links to interesting news stories he'd send to friends every morning, Drew Curtis created Fark in 1999. By 2009 it was one of the top 100 English language websites with 3-4 million unique visitors, and 60 million page views per month. Recently Drew has been in the news after he announced that he was running for governor in his home state of Kentucky with his wife Heather as his running mate. Calling himself an independent "citizen candidate," the campaign website says: "We have a theory that we’re about to see a huge change in how elections and politics work. Across the country, we have seen regular citizens stepping up and challenging the status quo built by political parties and career politicians. They have been getting closer and closer to victory and, here in Kentucky, we believe we have a chance to win and break the political party stronghold for good." We'll be checking back in with Drew as the race heats up, but for now he's agreed to answer any questions you may have. As usual, ask as many as you'd like, but please, one per post.
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  • Duke (Score:4, Funny)

    by tgetzoya ( 827201 ) on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @01:07PM (#49579131)
    We all know that Duke sucks, but would you please elaborate?
  • by jgtg32a ( 1173373 ) on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @01:09PM (#49579143)

    How effective would you say the filters have been for Fark?

  • by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @01:11PM (#49579167)

    It used to be huge, but then it died. Do you blame yourself? Whose fault was it?

  • by gweilo8888 ( 921799 ) on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @01:12PM (#49579173)
    How much longer can a site that's largely based around the same handful of tired old memes remain relevant?
  • by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @01:19PM (#49579215)

    You say you don't like business as usual. Your Issues page is exactly business as usual.

  • by turkeydance ( 1266624 ) on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @01:20PM (#49579225)
    are you leaving out the hope?
  • by TWX ( 665546 ) on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @01:21PM (#49579237)
    Drew,

    Fark used to have some of the best Photoshop contests, both in terms of what people came up with (thinking of the Lukket fake Rand Corporation computer as an example), and in the way that the in-line display and voting for the entries worked. What would you like to do with these going forward to get more involvement for these contests?
    • by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @01:24PM (#49579267)

      Fark is dead, let it go man. Stop trying to relive the past.

    • by amicusNYCL ( 1538833 ) on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @01:26PM (#49579285)

      I think one problem is that a lot of the old participants don't do it any more, for whatever reason. Photoshop contests used to regularly pull in 80 or 100 comments or so, now those are the outliers. You could go into one and expect to see 10 or 15 people making entries, but it seems like those people have moved on for whatever reason and haven't really been replaced.

      • by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @01:31PM (#49579313)

        Well duh, people left Fark after it died.

      • by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 30, 2015 @04:55PM (#49589675)

        I can tell you why I left. In my day I was a major contributor to their Photoshop contests. I submitted thousands of entries and had well over 100 wins. What happened was a steady decline of the old users, many of whom were very prolific, and had skills beyond the realm of Photoshop. You see, the contests on Fark are really only part of the equation. Fark doesn't track stats like votes, win percentages, etc. For that, we needed a third party stat tracking site. There were several such places over the years. First there was the Photoshop Monitor, then the Scrutinizer, and finally a site called Misfit Squirrels. They only lasted as long as their owner's interest, and relied on certain consistencies in Fark code. When Drew disastrously tried to revamp the contests by giving users the option to vote either "best" or "funniest", he broke stat tracker's ability to count entries. The guy running the other site wasn't able to recode to fix things, and even when Drew reverted the changes to the system some months later, it did not bring the stat tracking back online.

        I'm not sure Drew ever fully understood the lightning he had captured with his site's structure for contests. To date, I have not encountered a similar playground, though there are many imitators. He probably still doesn't realize that without stats, the contests are fleeting, and the hard work spent making a quality image is wasted if it's so ephemeral. Even if Drew were to wake up and add this long sought after feature of stat tracking, a number of other things have changed with regards to the moderation policies of the site. It's not a safe place for my kind to play any more. Tons of things are verboten, and I don't feel like asking their mods for permission every time I want to push the envelope. These days, I get my image editing kicks elsewhere. While nothing will ever truly compare to the thrill of crafting a picture for Fark and having it win, I sadly have to turn away from the old place and tell myself that the past is only a memory.

      • by gweilo8888 ( 921799 ) on Thursday April 30, 2015 @10:38PM (#49591161)
        Largely, they don't do it because the odds are carefully stacked in favor of those who paid for entry. With a TotalFark membership, you get to see the contests and prep your entries ahead of time, and because the voting happens from the moment their entries are posted *and* the entries are always shown chronologically, the winners are almost always among the first entries, and almost always from paying TotalFark subscribers. Which rather defeats the point of pretending it is a contest.

        If it was actually a meaningful contest, voting wouldn't be possible until *after* entries had closed, and the entries would be shown in a random order to every potential voter. And if that happened, I'd probably start entering regularly again. As-is, the thing that made me sign up for Fark almost 12 years ago is something I almost never participate in or even bother to look at any more.
  • by antiperimetaparalogo ( 4091871 ) on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @01:24PM (#49579265)
    Mister Drew Curtis, i am a Greek, and since this Slashdot's "Interviews: Ask Fark Founder Drew Curtis a Question" is a Slashvertisment* for your political campaign actually, i would liked to ask you: do you understand the irony Sir?

    * Slashvertisment:

    For many, the day would not be complete without checking Fark.com for the latest funny or weird news. Inspired by the numerous links to interesting news stories he'd send to friends every morning, Drew Curtis created Fark in 1999. By 2009 it was one of the top 100 English language websites with 3-4 million unique visitors, and 60 million page views per month. Recently Drew has been in the news after he announced that he was running for governor in his home state of Kentucky with his wife Heather as his running mate. Calling himself an independent "citizen candidate," the campaign website says: "We have a theory that we’re about to see a huge change in how elections and politics work. Across the country, we have seen regular citizens stepping up and challenging the status quo built by political parties and career politicians. They have been getting closer and closer to victory and, here in Kentucky, we believe we have a chance to win and break the political party stronghold for good." We'll be checking back in with Drew as the race heats up, but for now he's agreed to answer any questions you may have. As usual, ask as many as you'd like, but please, one per post.

    • by rwa2 ( 4391 ) * on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @01:49PM (#49579469) Homepage Journal

      Sounds like Drew will fit right in with Congress, where we have senators who never sent email sitting on the technology committee.
      http://www.addictinginfo.org/2... [addictinginfo.org]

      While I'm saddened that Drew has had to "clean up" Fark of its foobies and more aggressively moderate racist photoshop themes and pics, I applaud more tech geeks taking the plunge into politics. Here's hoping for a campaign that's more transparently data-driven by the people being represented than money-driven by shadow financiers.

      • by antiperimetaparalogo ( 4091871 ) on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @02:06PM (#49579647)

        Sounds like Drew will fit right in with Congress, where we have senators who never sent email sitting on the technology committee. http://www.addictinginfo.org/2... [addictinginfo.org]

        So, this "Drew" guy knows about technology... cool!

        While I'm saddened that Drew has had to "clean up" Fark of its foobies and more aggressively moderate racist photoshop themes and pics, I applaud more tech geeks taking the plunge into politics.

        So, this "Drew" guy knows about technology and how to censor people... not cool dude...

        Here's hoping for a campaign that's more transparently data-driven by the people being represented than money-driven by shadow financiers.

        This "Drew" guy just had his "transparent" Slashvertisement represented like "Interviews: Ask Fark Founder Drew Curtis a Question", when it's about his political campaign actually:

        For many, the day would not be complete without checking Fark.com for the latest funny or weird news. Inspired by the numerous links to interesting news stories he'd send to friends every morning, Drew Curtis created Fark in 1999. By 2009 it was one of the top 100 English language websites with 3-4 million unique visitors, and 60 million page views per month. Recently Drew has been in the news after he announced that he was running for governor in his home state of Kentucky with his wife Heather as his running mate. Calling himself an independent "citizen candidate," the campaign website says: "We have a theory that we’re about to see a huge change in how elections and politics work. Across the country, we have seen regular citizens stepping up and challenging the status quo built by political parties and career politicians. They have been getting closer and closer to victory and, here in Kentucky, we believe we have a chance to win and break the political party stronghold for good." We'll be checking back in with Drew as the race heats up, but for now he's agreed to answer any questions you may have. As usual, ask as many as you'd like, but please, one per post.

  • My question (Score:5, Funny)

    by MobileTatsu-NJG ( 946591 ) on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @01:25PM (#49579271)

    Mr. Curtis, your campaign seems to have the momentum of a runaway freight train. Why are you so popular?

    • by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @01:45PM (#49579451)

      Mmm... well, as long as I'm asking something, can I ask him to assuage my fears that he's contaminating the planet in a manner that may one day render it uninhabitable?

  • by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @01:26PM (#49579283)

    I had no idea.

  • by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @01:30PM (#49579305)

    With how popular your website has become, can you share your opinion on where Slashdot went wrong?

  • by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @01:30PM (#49579307)

    Drew, what is the worst possible thing that a political opponent could dig up on you - what don't you want people to know?

    • by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @01:37PM (#49579381)

      and the obvious follow up, why are you hiding such a patently inoffensive thing...what's really going on here?

      • Re:closet skeletons (Score:2, Interesting)

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @02:10PM (#49579679)

        I want to know why Drew Curtis hasn't yet denied that he raped and murdered a young girl in 1990. It's not just that he won't show us proof that he didn't rape and murder a young girl in 1990, but that Drew Curtis has so little respect for the American people that he doesn't even bother denying that he raped and murdered a young girl in 1990. If you were a parent in Kentucky, wouldn't you be concerned that this story hasn't been talked about in the mainstream media? Wouldn't you find it important to investigate whether Drew Curtis raped and murdered a young girl in 1990?

    • by SuiteSisterMary ( 123932 ) <slebrunNO@SPAMgmail.com> on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @02:07PM (#49579649) Journal

      Drew, what is the worst possible thing that a political opponent could dig up on you - what don't you want people to know?

      Phrase it in the form of a partisan attack ad.

  • by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @01:32PM (#49579323)

    Who is responsible for the new mobile layout? Can I have their address? I'd like to send a strongly worded letter of protest over how shitty it is. /Seriously, did you even use it before it went live? //Beta was better ///slashies come in threes, even on /.

  • by Scottingham ( 2036128 ) on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @01:34PM (#49579339)

    Say your political campaign is successful. Do you have a plan in place to stop one of the "two" parties from co-opting your message and claiming to be a part of the same movement? I'm thinking Tea Party -> GOP and 'Occupy' -> Democrats. Both only 'sorta' worked (TheTea Party was much more successfully assimilated IMO), yet ultimately were co-opted.

  • by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @01:35PM (#49579357)

    Given you and your Fark mods' predilection for censoring speech (and outright "shadowbanning" users, some of which paid for your service) on your website that you think could possibly make a negative impact on your advertising revenue, do you plan on incorporating the same kind of speech inhibiting mechanisms as governor?

  • Bar Towel? (Score:5, Funny)

    by show me altoids ( 1183399 ) on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @01:41PM (#49579421)
    Any word on when the Guiness bar towels are due to be delivered?
  • by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @01:54PM (#49579513)

    why every villager thinks he is famous

  • by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @01:56PM (#49579543)

    Are you ashamed or merely embarrassed about how your mods have failed the Politics tab? Will you choose to do better in the future?

  • Litigation (Score:5, Interesting)

    by bazmail ( 764941 ) on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @02:08PM (#49579663)
    Hi Drew, what was the closest you ever came to shutting down FARK, due to litigation, threats from idiots you made famous, boredom, $$$ shortage etc?
  • Fark isn't relevant (Score:2, Interesting)

    by fleabay ( 876971 ) on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @02:21PM (#49579753)
    My question for the fark guy, erm Drew so-and-whatever.. How much did you pay slashdot for this 'interview'?
  • by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @02:21PM (#49579765)

    Drew,

    First off, thanks for Fark. Has killed many a hour of dull work! On to my question...

    For those of us techies immersed in the web, and those who have run across Fark on a given day, most of us will presumably know your background and to a point, your ideological leanings. How do you branch the divide with the public not versed on your background, with you being well versed on the tech. side of things, and translate that to Kentucky's highest elected position? And moreso, likely in the face of skeptics who might see you as an obscure 'Internet' site winner, and not someone who is versed in public policy, legalise, and politics in Kentucky?

    Disclaimer: Best of luck in your endeavour for Kentucky!

  • by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @02:23PM (#49579787)

    What the fark?

  • by gregorino ( 4097021 ) on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @02:27PM (#49579833)
    You and Ms. Curtis deserve tremendous credit for such a worthy effort. Thanks on behalf of US citizens eager for change -- or at least a demonstration that change is possible. Although some ambiguity remains, your site shows transparency, the application of sound business principles, a close examination of successful policies incorporated elsewhere, creativity, and an open ear for discussion from all sides. -- Which of the following is your greatest challenge to getting elected and how do you surmount it: (a) voter apathy, (b) lack of campaign funds, (c) misrepresentation or lack of presence in the media, (d) a self-described lack of political qualifications, (e) a lack of political experience, (f) lack of voter confidence, and (g) lack of voter advocacy?
  • by poity ( 465672 ) on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @02:35PM (#49579891)

    Mods killed it
    Why bother?

    • by clonehappy ( 655530 ) on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @04:17PM (#49580689)

      This gubernatorial race is really just a ploy for attention to get someone, anyone, to go back to Fark after the pro-censorship PC police took it over.

      Funny, because it used to be a decent place when it wasn't rife with PC nanny-staters.

      You censor speech, you get routed around, end of story.

  • Culture Change (Score:5, Interesting)

    by eepok ( 545733 ) on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @02:50PM (#49580003) Homepage

    Drew,

    There was a time when Fark Boobies links were mixed in with news links. Then it became its own tab. Then it was reborn as "Foobies"-- a wholly separate site. More recently, a strict "Anti-Misogyny" standard on Fark discussions was implemented which included the dis-allowance of the use of the word "rape" except in the academic sense, dis-allowing the use of demeaning terms in describing women, and suggesting that a female victim of a crime was somehow asking to be victimized.

    Examples of dis-allowed uses include the meme "40 lbs. Box of Rape" (http://goo.gl/XipVh1), references to the Whoopi Goldberg differentiation between "rape" and "rape rape" (http://goo.gl/u3YDuW), and Todd Akin's "legitimate rape" gaffe (http://goo.gl/dyxpy).

    To say that the change was met with disdain would be an understatement. The ensuing threads were filled with battles back and forth between those who assert that such references and jocularity is proof a genuine hatred of women (misogyny) while others assert that lumping together edgy attempts at comedy with the genuine hatred of women is prejudicial and incredibly offensive.

    Given Fark's historic culture of pushing/punching the boundaries of political correctness (see: "Welcome to Fark" memes) where almost nothing is so sacred that it cannot be joked about (see: "Window seat, please" memes), why was this decision made? Why were so many genuinely non-misogynistic actions/comments/memes lumped in with that term?

    My partner and I have discussed the change at length. We're both fans of audacity humor, so we actually "get a kick out of the replies" (http://goo.gl/a6xyao). Together, we came up with the following potential rationales. Which did we get right? Which didn't we?

    1. I got older and my tastes have changed. I don't want to run a site that goes counter to my own sensibilities.
    2. I received pressure from external organizations (other sites, special interests, advertisers).
    3. I want to grow the site to be more inclusive of people who would be offended by such jokes.
    4. I'm running for public office and Fark.com, if not cleaned up, would destroy my campaign.
    5. I've received overwhelming negative feedback regarding the state of Fark comments and the numbers supporting a change greatly outnumber those who didn't like the change.
    6. I actually believe that everyone who jokes about women hates women and they should be stopped.

    • by XO ( 250276 ) <blade@eric.gmail@com> on Thursday April 30, 2015 @03:13AM (#49583743) Homepage Journal

      Disdain? The Internet as a whole has been applauding and attempting to follow, where it can.

      • by eepok ( 545733 ) on Friday May 01, 2015 @12:22PM (#49594813) Homepage

        It really doesn't matter what the "internet as a whole" applauds when dealing with the internal matters of an individual community. Different communities have different sensibilities and priorities.

        Scenario:
        The Slashdot community values discussions based on science and good logic. Imagine that Slashdot declares that comments are no longer allowed to question the scientific validity of anti-GMO or pro-Vegan articles. Everyone who questions the assertions of PETA and the anti-GMO crowd will be officially labeled as corporate shills. Comments will be auto-moderated to -1.

        Soon after, animal rights organizations and organic growers around the world applaud a the declaration.

        As a member of the Slashdot community, you have an opinion on this hypothetical decision, I'm sure. But would it matter at all to you if PETA and anti-GMO groups "applaud" the change?

  • by sandbagger ( 654585 ) on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @03:05PM (#49580135)

    --- Discussions on Fark don't go to infinity and beyond anymore. Is the attempt to make Fark more PC a response to that or a consequence?
    --- You're HTML 2.0 compliant, it seems. Ever planning on updating the back end?
    --- A few times a year there's a post to TFD asking for ideas on how to improve things. Nothing changes: why?
    --- The ethos of Fark used to be say anything --- smash any idols ---just be funny doing it. Has moving away from that basically made Fark no different from a lot of other discussion/aggregation sites?

  • by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @03:19PM (#49580251)

    I am a former farker, paid for myself and several others and gifted many months to folks over the years.
    Drew, how can you possibly say there is no problem with you taking you wife into the running for a position as a "ride-along"?
    Does your conscience not scream at you like a banshee (or at least like Bathia in a bad mood)?

    You lost me, the folks I gifted to, and worst of all, my respect. I am serious about that.
    And I know you likely give a rats' ass about that, but you should because it took TREMENDOUS effort to alienate me since I have know you since the squirrel was your only content.

    • by Khyber ( 864651 ) <techkitsune@gmail.com> on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @04:13PM (#49580661) Homepage Journal

      "Drew, how can you possibly say there is no problem with you taking you wife into the running for a position as a "ride-along"?"

      Check how the site has changed. Misogyny is no bueno but misandry is a-okay.

      Drew sold out to the likes of Gawker/Jezebel and other media sites.

      • by rossz ( 67331 ) <[ogre] [at] [geekbiker.net]> on Thursday April 30, 2015 @01:04AM (#49583455) Journal

        Yup. Fark is getting less fun ever day because Drew sold out. The very reason we go to fark is for the outrage and silliness. But all too often a moderator obviously born a Puritan steps in and ruins the fun.

        Also, their moderators are idiots. When I called out someone who said something extremely racist and offensive, I got a 24 hour ban. When I complained the fucking moron of a moderator insisted the statement I referred to wasn't racist. Yes it was. It was extremely offensive to Filipino women. I know, because I asked my Filipino niece. Fark either needs to get moderators who aren't racist morons.

        • by Etcetera ( 14711 ) on Monday May 11, 2015 @05:21PM (#49668375) Homepage

          But all too often a moderator obviously born a Puritan steps in and ruins the fun.

          A Puritan? Hardly. The social justice warriors enforcing political correctness everywhere aren't, and have never been, from the Right, let alone the Christian Right.

          Evangelicals haven't had serious sway in this country for 75-175 years (depending on your specific issues in question and threshold). It's all about the left wing and grievance-mongering. Reminds me of the mid-90's, before South Park made being politically incorrect palatable to the masses again.

  • by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @03:42PM (#49580423)

    Is the real reason you're running for office because you can pay yourself and family members salaries out of the campaign funds hoping to cash in on your popularity?

  • by Megaweapon ( 25185 ) on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @03:45PM (#49580445) Homepage

    You have in the past (and probably still do) ban people from posting from you website, including paying customers, in a fashion that makes the users not aware of their status. Given that this is fraud, do you plan on implementing any sort of Shadowbanning as governor? Perhaps billing constituents for state services without providing them?

  • by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @03:51PM (#49580491)

    I stopped going there when it became clear it was another establishment-controlled site that will censor unpopular speech and kowtow to the uber-PC "up on a pedestal" crowd. I like having all (and I mean ALL) kinds of speech and opinions represented, whether they support a given agenda or not. Back when it was something real, it was one of the best places for open discourse on the internet. Nowadays, you might as well be in the comments section on Gawker.

  • by ITRambo ( 1467509 ) on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @03:54PM (#49580511)
    Drew was instrumental in raising awareness that television news is designed to scare people into watching it with teasers that are titillating, BREAKING NEWS (when it's not) scrolls, and far more. Quite a stunt to pull off some years back and I respect him for it. FARK was built with humor in mind and early on was mined by late night talk shows for content. My question is: what will you do to get a skeptical, and possibly hostile, media to present you as a serious candidate?
  • by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @04:06PM (#49580609)

    Are you still shadowbanning users while happily taking their money thereby defrauding them?

  • by Khyber ( 864651 ) <techkitsune@gmail.com> on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @04:09PM (#49580629) Homepage Journal

    When are you going to get rid of your SJW mods and go back to what made Fark worth a FUCK in the first place?

  • by RyoShin ( 610051 ) <tukaro AT gmail DOT com> on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @04:30PM (#49580759) Homepage Journal

    I was a regular Fark user for some time, and hopped on TotalFark. However, over time I got annoyed with the "cafes" and other social cliques, and found 4chan much more to my liking because moderation was lax (at the time), focusing on spam and obvious trolls, with little censorship.

    While I haven't used Fark regularly for years now, I do have some friends from my time there that are active participants, and my understanding from them and other sources [slashdot.org] is that the posting standards on Fark have gotten even stricter. How much of the moderation standards are due to your personal views (or views of your moderators), how much due to legal concerns, and how much due to member concerns (trolling/stalking/aggravation, keeping various wordfilters to make it more SFW, etc.).

    As a followup question, have you ever considered a moderation system like of Slashdot?

    (As an unrelated question, if you won your bid for governor but a candidate came along with a better name, would you resign and have them take your place?)

  • by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @04:36PM (#49580799)

    Why no more gorgor :'(

  • by Rei ( 128717 ) on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @07:29PM (#49581915) Homepage

    Dear Drew,

    HELP I'M STUCK IN SOMETHING CALLED HUNCH HOUSE AND I CAN'T FIND MY WAY OUT i killed the hunch but theres no exits and i need to be in class in 15 minutes and im out of sp from all of this shouting will somebody pleeeeease help me?

    Sincerely,
    Confused in Chaos

  • Like anything would change the status quo.
  • by rtb61 ( 674572 ) on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @08:42PM (#49582303) Homepage

    The most important question, why would anyone be stupid enough to think running a government like a business works. In small business under capitalism, only 1 in 10 succeed, by far the majority go bankrupt 90%. So what, try out new government services only to have the majority fail is somehow sound. That some how trial and error are preferable to careful but admittedly expensive research. Perhaps government needs to set up multiple branches of the same service so they can compete and one wins while the rest go bankrupt. So why exactly, not empty PR=B$ platitudes but actually data, is government run like a for profit business better, especially as a monopoly (taking into account how bad private monopolies have proven to be over the centuries).

  • by sethstorm ( 512897 ) on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @11:13PM (#49583105) Homepage

    Why do you appease individuals of the SJW crowd, namely Chelsea van Valkenberg (you know who she is, but I can't mention that on Fark), by strictly enforcing their narratives, even in the light of truth?

  • by dotgain ( 630123 ) on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @11:22PM (#49583157) Homepage Journal
    I work for Drew Curtis. So I am really getting a kick out of most of these replies. Some of you guys are very good at making it sound like you know what you are talking about. But trust me.... You don't. I think you just want to make yourself sound smart, when in reality you dont know what you are talking about. This is how bad info gets passed around. If you dont know about the topic....Dont make yourself sound like you do. Cuz some Farkers belive anything they hear.
  • by muridae ( 966931 ) on Thursday April 30, 2015 @08:44AM (#49584989)

    who is fb- the father of?

    No, my actual question is "can you elaborate on the reason why freep-impact was asked to stop posting in politics threads?"

  • by VIPERsssss ( 907375 ) on Thursday April 30, 2015 @02:37PM (#49588603)
    Whatever happened with Darrell Phillips?

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