Something Awful Forums
The Something Awful Forums (usually abbreviated as the SA Forums) is a set of limited-access highly-modified message boards system on the popular humor website Something Awful, with a large userbase (48,000). The forums are ranked (as of September 2004) by Big-Boards as the 7th most popular on the net, in spite of a registration fee being charged for access. [1]. It runs on a heavily modified version of VBulletin. People who frequent the Something Awful Forums call themselves "SA Goons," or simply "goons." The forums are strictly moderated. The community is international, but mostly comprised of American males in the teen to 20s age range.
While a selection of forums is usually available for read-only anonymous browsing, it costs $10 to register a full account; this money goes directly to the webmaster, Rich "Lowtax" Kyanka, who currently makes a living from administering the forums. Many other forum features also cost $5 or $10 each, such as gaining permission to search the forums, putting an image and custom text under your or someone else's username (often to demean them).
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Bannable offenses
The administrators of Something Awful view the forums as a center for comedy that needs to be constantly pruned. To prevent the degeneration of the forums, simple things that might be viewed as funny, such as quoting a post with only the word "what" in response, or answering a computer question with any variant of "install linux, problem solved," would cause an immediate ban (suspension of one's account), and therefore the cost of $10 to re-register. This might seem harsh to an outside user, but as a technique to keep the forums clean it has apparently worked well. A full list of bannable offenses are listed in the SA Forums rules, as well as descriptions of the kinds of punishment (like permanbans, hellbans, and probation).
External links
- The Something Awful front page
- The Something Awful forums - Usually, you will not be able to read the forums without purchasing an account, but this varies from week to week based on the webmaster's mood.
- A short history of events on Something Awful