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Kuro5hin is Dying

posted by janrinok on Sunday July 26 2015, @08:02AM   Printer-friendly
from the RIP dept.

ghost writes:

You might be surprised to find out that kuro5hin -- k5 -- is still around. Well, not for much longer. Absentee landlord Rusty Foster (temporarily?) blocked new user sign ups and in the process somehow managed to block existing users from logging in.

Dedicated users can edit the HTML to add back the login box (or use a query string). Though once popular, K5 never recovered from the last time Rusty blocked new users (eventually relenting and adding a $5 sign up fee). RIP. Truly a Web 1.0 icon.

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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by RedBear on Sunday July 26 2015, @09:26AM

    by RedBear (1734) on Sunday July 26 2015, @09:26AM (#213788)

    I popped into this "Kuro5hin" place a few times over the years, because I kept seeing oblique mention of it here and there, and never could quite grasp why anyone would want to go there on a regular basis. It always seemed visually unattractive, incoherent and unfriendly to me. Right now what I see on the front page makes me wonder if everyone who goes there is half schizophrenic. There are a disturbingly large number of occurrences of the name "Michael David Crawford" and just general weirdness. Perhaps for its members that's part of its charm. I've never found incoherent nonsense appealing.

    But that's just my perspective as an outsider and someone who probably didn't see the site in its heyday. Maybe those who spent a lot of time in that community can explain why the possible demise of the site is something to mourn. Was it just a less mainstream Slashdot, or something else entirely?

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2015, @02:27PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2015, @02:27PM (#213850)

    There was a short glorious period, where people were posting rather long articles to k5 (fiction, deep reviews, lifehacker-style howtos, etc.), commentary was insightful, moderation was innovative, etc.
    Then like a meteor, the site burned out. Money was partly responsible.
    People who experienced the peak have fond memories and occasionally check back for a recovery.
    Unfortunately, the site has always been a disaster outside of that brief glory.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2015, @05:05PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2015, @05:05PM (#213903)

    > there are a disturbingly large number of occurrences of the name "Michael David Crawford" and just general weirdness.

    Deja Poo. [soylentnews.org]
    The best we can hope for is enough weight from others that he can't tip this boat over.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2015, @05:20PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2015, @05:20PM (#213909)

      Yeah, this is on the front page of Kuro5hin, attributed to Crawford:

      The screen at the center showed a badly deformed Brian Lazara, in the midst of being tortured. On day 1 of the benevolent Crawfordian rule, which began the day after he successfully solved the software problem, Crawford's minions began a brutal campaign of torture.

      Shards of jagged and rough glass were used to gouge Brian's eyes out. As the days pass, digits were removed, sometimes being burned off, sometimes with pliers, sometimes through crushing, and sometimes through even more creative means. As the weeks passed, acid treatments and selective sawing slowly shriveled his limbs to his torso. Now that the years have passed, he had no arms, no legs, and his torso was badly scarred from cuts, burns, and toxic treatments, distributed across his whole torso countless times.

      The screen to the immediate right showed Trisha Vavak. From the outside, it looked as though she fared much better than her criminal counterpart. However, Trisha solely endured sexual abuse above the physical and psychological abuse that Brian suffered.

      The video surveillance zoomed in as the vaginal pear was inserted, without lube, into her badly used groin region, for the thousandth time. The pear expanded deep inside her vagina, causing intense pain as it stretched her beyond the limits. The sharp, clawed and pointed edges scrapped against her already-bruised cervix as it twisted inside of her. Trisha was so dehydrated she was unable to cry. She had become so accustomed to the tortured excruciating pain that she no longer lost consciousness when it became too much.

      Trisha and Brian were kept alive, year after year, only to be tortured. Both have given up begging for death years ago, resigning themselves for a seeming eternity of experiencing nothing but the worst pain.

      I think I know now why Kuro5hin is dead.

    • (Score: 2) by CRCulver on Sunday July 26 2015, @06:59PM

      by CRCulver (4390) on Sunday July 26 2015, @06:59PM (#213941) Homepage

      The best we can hope for is enough weight from others that he can't tip this boat over.

      He sort of already has. Have you noticed that he posts to very nearly every story on SN? I’ve added him to my Foes list and configured SN to mod him down automatically to -1, but that still keeps his presence here quasi-visible. I'd love it if SN had a real killfile feature. There are some people I've added to my foes list because I don't want to see most of their posts, but I don't care if I occasionally come across one. Crawford, however, is a whole other degree of bad.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2015, @09:02PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2015, @09:02PM (#213975)

        I did this. [soylentnews.org]

        It isn't too hard to tweak that to completely zero out his entire posts. But sometimes, sometimes people say something worthwhile (upmodded) in response to his bullshit and I want to read the context.

      • (Score: 1) by anubi on Monday July 27 2015, @09:17AM

        by anubi (2828) on Monday July 27 2015, @09:17AM (#214191) Journal

        I'd love it if SN had a real killfile feature. There are some people I've added to my foes list because I don't want to see most of their posts

        Actually, that sounds like a good idea... you never see your foes anymore.

        I have yet to foe anybody here, but one never knows when some royal asshat signs up and annoys the crap out of people.

        So far, I have been very impressed with the clientele that hang out around here.

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