Traffic for Shoutwire is currently only 20% to 35% what it was last September. That's right folks--this site used to have 3 to 5 TIMES as many users and traffic, and the current owners have fucked it away.


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su0rtin, on 5/23/2008 1:09:59 AM
Total Posts: 5, Joined: 10/31/2006
Join just because of TorrentSpy.... Kept on using the site though because it was so damned good. Now its just shit.
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Kowalski1977, on 5/23/2008 1:31:01 AM
Total Posts: 281, Joined: 5/3/2007
wantdonotwant.com is gonna take a long time to grow, just looking at the stories there's mainly 0 comments and if you're lucky 2 comments at the most, I don't like the the way the vote system is labeled "want" or "don't want", it kinda sounds daft and doesn't have the ring to "shout" or "bash" or even "dugg" or "buried" for that matter, it's early days with the place and I'm sure it'll pick up over time so I can only wish the best of luck to the guys who are running the place, who knows maybe in the future they'll see me there. If shoutwire really goes to the pan I'll prolly register to Digg which is 2nd preference to shoutwire cos I frequent there a lot though not as much as here.
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jd8coke, on 5/23/2008 2:10:39 AM
Total Posts: 1145, Joined: 2/5/2006
^ Zero is running the place, and at least it doesn't have annoying ads.
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nova, on 5/23/2008 2:32:31 AM
Total Posts: 568, Joined: 4/10/2006
Don't attack SW for this dudes. The same thing happened to SpikedHumour.

The idea is a competing site buys up the competetor. Crave Online is likely behind this. Maybe someone else.

In business it can be beneficial to have a money losing venture. With taxes at 30 percent it works out great. You buy shit for a profitable business, and write it off on the losing venture. The idea here is to help SW.

Leaving will not help. What needs to be done is the venture that SW is being sold out to must be found. I don't like the pseudo ads either but a low Alexa rating only helps the owners use this site as a right off.

Either way. We can start a new site if we want but 100 percent will never join so we must ignore the shit here. Maybe do what we can, but once we leave we will never all re-join.

In the meantime the best thing to do is get all the information on the owners that is possible. With the few left here it must be a dedicated bunch so lets put that shit to work, and start doing some research.

Also the same thing seemed to happen to Spiked. They were like the french. They put a teen age girl in charge.
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challenger1979, on 5/23/2008 2:46:21 AM
Total Posts: 827, Joined: 2/7/2006
Personally i think Tspy & SW were so popular back in the day because they complimented each other. I used to vist Tspy for a torrent and end up reading SW also i used to just come to read SW and then end up looking at the torrents.

So what we need is someone to setup a torrent site that they want to become popular and to stick shoutwire on the front page. Anyone got any ideas on a site that we could attach to, or anyone in eastern europe were the copyright laws are liberal want to setup a torrent site for us. So we can go back to the good old days of massive arguements and huge flame wars.
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thebird, on 5/23/2008 2:55:07 AM
Total Posts: 451, Joined: 11/10/2006
Immaculate1 wrote:
I know the SW discussions used to be highly critical of certain interest groups, and well, basically, the site is slowly but surely being destroyed, and so are the discussions and so are the dissenting opinions.


I would say 'mission accomplished' then. And yes, they do things like that. Stops people from thinking and promotes ideas that they want. So completely expecting this.
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nova, on 5/23/2008 6:42:37 AM
Total Posts: 569, Joined: 4/10/2006
^^actually, Bitch. The site is popular because we don't have bann happy retards like Sci, InsayneJayne, or NNy here.

Not sure if you noticed but the idea here is put up with offense or GTFO.

Some things are bad but not many. So whatever. Blow my balls. Go lecture somwhere else you Nazi.

Edit. Whoaa there is like no fucking way that much time passed. I was commenting to challenger. Then I got a comment between us. Then I saw how much time p[assed and I was like no way amn no dman waY.
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bulshoy, on 5/23/2008 8:16:05 AM
Total Posts: 6293, Joined: 11/15/2005
"Personally i think Tspy & SW were so popular back in the day because they complimented each other. I used to vist Tspy for a torrent and end up reading SW also i used to just come to read SW and then end up looking at the torrents."

You're right. With the Tspy feed, we had a never-ending pool of users and readers. Now that the feed is gone, there is really nothing to draw people here, and because of the ads, they don't stay when they do find us.

The admins are currently approaching other sites so that we can get a feed up. In the meantime, anyone with Facebook or Myspace can get the SW apps going and encourage their "friends" to put it up too.
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HunterPence, on 5/23/2008 11:35:02 AM
Total Posts: 1150, Joined: 7/25/2006
@immaculate

"Sometimes, it might be odd, but sometimes my little conspiracy devil whispers to me in the back of my ear ....... that's exactly what the new owners want."

It's not odd at all. You have a completely retarded fantasy in which Shoutwire becoming less popular is part of a plot to thwart your dangerous genius. Lots of people have retarded fantasies about how awesome they are. It's pretty normal.

"I know the SW discussions used to be highly critical of certain interest groups"

Cute code-word, dipshit.

"Now that the feed is gone, there is really nothing to draw people here,"

NO! Too sane.
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Immaculate1, on 5/23/2008 2:58:49 PM
Total Posts: 7167, Joined: 7/16/2006
"Cute code-word, dipshit."

^ Yes it is, isn't it? Btw, I love you too. I'm sorry, but I have to hide my true intentions sometimes or people would get the wrong impression of me. Can't wear the Nazi uniform all day without becomming too obvious, can I?

Damn, I must be really getting on your nerve, isn't it? You even come here in a completely unrelated discussion to vent your anger towards me. Anyway, keep it up. You know cursing always gets you great results on the interwebs and generally solves every problem at hand.

But I applaud the fact that you are here to keep a watchful eye on me so you can warn the unsuspecting masses for my malicious personality and deceitful über-intellect.
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