It would be great if everyone just posted the dino thing before deleting their accounts

I already found a better meme site. Remember kids, your wallet gets a vote too.

Wait are the bots just posting memes? What’s wrong with that?

The ads are atrocious on mobile. One pulldown ad from the top, another pull up from the bottom and the two that are already part of the page.

Yeah, I use mobile, doesn’t bother me a bit, what Is wrong with the bots though?

I'm on mobile and I literally only have one add at the top that isn't even always there and the pull up from the up appears only once in a while

I didn’t think much of it. I didn’t really even notice the new ads as new until someone said something. The new owner may not be ready to make an announcement, or they may not be aware of the community well enough to even realize that they are upsetting people. Having just transferred ownership, they may not even be on the site looking because they have other things to do in getting things going- and yes- they are trying to monetize the site. I doubt they paid Zeus $10 for it, and likely would at least like to get their money back and pay the costs to keep funsub running, and hosting memes by itself is surprisingly not a profit avenue. We also don’t know the conditions of the sale- what Zeus is or isn’t allowed to do or say about what is going on, or even if he’s allowed to get involved on the site. I imagine that if you bought a website full of users who knew the old owner better- it might threaten your investment a bit to have that old owner still running around- wether they...

... intentionally were poaching users for another new project of theirs, undermining you and your administration, or accidentally doing it by saying or doing something that would trigger people to get upset. What’s more- in a vacuum of information- not having spoken to the new owner or spoken much to the old on the issue- not knowing why Zeus sold it (family issues? Financial crisis? Health? Moving on to other things?) or anything else, people are filling in the blanks themselves and taking them to mean whatever negative thing they want. I’m not telling anyone they don’t have a right to be upset or hurt. Sure- it would be nice to have a chat room or even just a post with some change over information, even just canned pleasantries and half truths, as is often the norm. But at that we’d be not much further from square one. Even in a hostile take over it is usually expected the old guard play nice and smooth the transition, because “if you don’t have anything nice to say...” and most...

... people who build something through work and sacrifice aren’t so puerile or petty that if they can’t run it their way they would rather sabatoge it than see it survive in the hands of another. So even IF Zeus was somehow twisted in to selling, didn’t like the direction of things, or didn’t like the new owner- and IF Zeus had made a lost, it’s unlikely we would get a complete and brutally honest answer. At the end of the day- people saying funsub is a community? Communities aren’t made or broken by pop ups ads and changes of owner. They are made on the relationships between people. If the funsub community keeps doing what it has always done then it can’t be broken so easily. If people decide that walking away because they are upset over this or that thing concerning change of ownership they can’t really do much about except buy funsub themselves and run it their way... then the community suffers as much or more than the new owner who just looses some money.

It's our time spent making this site, without contributers there would be no site. They do owe us an explanation, even if we are not owed a vote. USERS made the site, not the owners.

Jd, you have 0 posts....

Well- by default of the premise that is somewhat inaccurate. As I say above- the community and the site are made up of the users, but the whole rampant accusations of bot posters calls into question the idea that contributors are “required” since if there are still bots contributing, there will still likely be people browsing and discussing in the comments. The site would not be the some. Objectively would it be worse? Objectively “different” doesn’t mean “worse” by default. Worse for some is better for others, so who could say?

I lost it because I'm too lazy to post :(

Aww. Well, until you get your star back... ALL HAIL THE NEW KING! Also you two can always duel each other to the death for the throne. Fight!

This thread is fantastic

I value my integrity more than popularity. I let me star go away because I'd rather be honest and hated than lying and loved.

@king_me don't need to post to get stars, just make good comments

Trust me, as the king of comments, he doesn't make those either.

honestly i didn't know there was a new owner, but i did notice a decline in the site, bit of a shame, it's the first thing i check after work when i get home

You guys do realize that the star is a classic positive feedback loop designed specifically to keep you engaged on this website don't you? It's explicit purpose is to keep you emotionally connected to this website so they can slide ad after ad across your eyes and charge companies accordingly.
Edit:spidey gets it!

Yes ma'am.

Sooooooooo.... Is someone going to fight or not?

@iccarus, good comments dont get you a star. Lots of comments that the majority of the people here agree with is what will get a star.
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That's the problem with this particular feedback loop. It rewards people for conformity. That is the long way of saying that if independent thought is your goal, the star cannot be.

Well it sure as hell works to keep me conformed then, even if I agree with everyone else that this new stuff is a bit eyebrow raising, to say the least

I actually don't have the time to be actively engaged in the site anymore. I come in once a day to view whatever is new and I'm gone until the next.
A fight to the death works for me though. And if I can take out the doctor in the first fight the rest of funsub will be without a healer, so that just makes things easier.

I think fubsubstance needs a doctor rn actually

I feel personally attacked Rn. Are you saying people with stars aren't posting quality engaging content?

Bitch I only leave comments, of course I'm not

But they're engaging comments!

I always try to make good posts.

And you're a good boy grim

Who here posts the most posts or the most comments?

Having a star doesn't mean you're a puppet conformist but intentionally chasing or maintaining a star might.

I think someone's a little salty

Envy is a little ugly sometimes :(

@dr_richard_ew here it is.
I am a king you dull creature and I will not be bullied by mere-

-kats?