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Hardman Knott
Gym climber
Muir Woods National Monument, Mill Valley, Ca
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May 13, 2006 - 03:14pm PT
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-and there's only one "f" in fuçked––and it seems a lot of folks got exactly that.
I'm curious what costs are involved in hosting a site that gets 50,000 raw hits a day,
assuming that was an accurate figure. All those purty pictures gotta use up some bandwidth!
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GOclimb
Trad climber
Boston, MA
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May 13, 2006 - 03:18pm PT
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I am a professional working Database Administrator (in Oracle). I offered Tim my services in whatever SQL, coding, structural, whatever he'd like me to work on. Repeatedly. In response he was rude and dismissive. I wish them luck, but after that, I'll be no more than a user.
So what's the deal there? Like I said before SNAFU - same as it ever was.
GO
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bob d'antonio
Trad climber
boulder, co
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May 13, 2006 - 03:31pm PT
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I never gave them a penny.
The strange thing about that site is that just about anyone can "get over". You have novice climbers telling other novice climbers what to do and how to do things. You have wanna-writers who can't get published in the mags, you have people writing trip report about a visit to the gym and so forth. It serves a purpose...to some people.
I spend most of time on the site in community giving the neo-cons sh#t. It's good for laugh.
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Hardman Knott
Gym climber
Muir Woods National Monument, Mill Valley, Ca
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May 13, 2006 - 04:04pm PT
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khanom and skibabeage, thanks for the detailed reports.
bob d'antonio wrote:
I spend most of time on the site in community giving the neo-cons sh#t. It's good for laugh.
LOL!
I've been telling people for years that if you want to talk politics with climbers,
there's a vastly larger audience (or at least there was) at the site that boasts
50,000 hits a day. Of course over there, it's not nearly so slanted to the left...
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
one pass away from the big ditch
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May 13, 2006 - 04:18pm PT
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ANGUS!!!
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Blowboarder
Boulder climber
Back in the mix
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May 13, 2006 - 05:05pm PT
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JuanDeFuca wrote:
"Okay I will try to get kick off rc in the next few weeks!"
Good luck. I managed a tarpit in my first 72 hours but that was the best I could do.
Better bring more to the table than tales of analingus and incest.
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fracture
Sport climber
Austin, TX
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May 13, 2006 - 08:39pm PT
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khanom: that's some funny sh#t dude. Thanks for posting it.
One thing rockclimbing.com never fails to provide is excellent soap-opera style comedy.
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Holdplease2
Big Wall climber
Yosemite area
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May 13, 2006 - 09:29pm PT
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Which is what really sets it apart from ST...
-Kate.
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Ain't no flatlander
climber
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May 13, 2006 - 09:45pm PT
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It's actually turning into a nice dichotomy: Rc.com is the newbie forum for tweens and posers while SuperTaco is the old folks home for has-beens, never-weres, and wannabes. Neither is any better than the other but the residents sure love puffing their chests.
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dirtineye
Trad climber
the south
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May 13, 2006 - 09:50pm PT
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Yes, john gill, arno, long, etc are posers.
Just what do you contribute dumbshyte?
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bob d'antonio
Trad climber
boulder, co
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May 13, 2006 - 10:23pm PT
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Dirt...mr. (dan) flat is the classic rc.com flamer/troll.
Dan seems to take everything was too serious.
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etreez
Trad climber
Juneau, AK
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May 13, 2006 - 10:53pm PT
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Well I got through for long enough today to see that Little Rammer Boy is branching out. He has a really unfunny troll attempt on the front page.
There goes one of RC.coms few redeeming values - No Rimjob.
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Mick Ryan
Trad climber
Saratoga Springs, NY
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May 13, 2006 - 11:05pm PT
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This is an example of what a real climbing website can be, quick to load, intimate, open to all and rich in content.
http://www.ukclimbing.com/
Mick
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dirtineye
Trad climber
the south
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May 13, 2006 - 11:11pm PT
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Oh wait, is that the old alpnclmbr1?
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Majid_S
Mountain climber
Bay Area
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May 13, 2006 - 11:54pm PT
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Once the RC COM goes down, guys like Rajmix will be all over Supertopo .At least Rimjob has been adopted by stone masters but can you adopt more ?
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jtanzman
climber
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May 14, 2006 - 04:38pm PT
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Fracture: "One thing rockclimbing.com never fails to provide is excellent soap-opera style comedy."
Holdplease2: "Which is what really sets it apart from ST..."
Yeah, ST = Super Torpor (tm)
-Jay
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dirtineye
Trad climber
the south
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May 14, 2006 - 05:29pm PT
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Just because there is a seething hatred of sport climbing here Jay, is no reason to get huffy.
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sandstone and sky
Trad climber
AK
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Bob D: "The strange thing about that site is that just about anyone can "get over". You have novice climbers telling other novice climbers what to do and how to do things. You have wanna-writers who can't get published in the mags... "
Ski-babealicious: "The trend of the website is, indeed, towards those new to climbing. That's great, focus on that market. But don't pretend to be anything other than that. Just be fully prepared to take it in the shorts when one n00b gives another n00b erroneous information resulting in a tragedy."
...which pretty much sums up why I bailed on RC.com. Ski, I might have written you an email at the time explaining why I was leaving. There may have even been a little lecture included in there. If so, sorry. But that sh#t was not, and continues not to be, good.
I'm kind of glad to see I wasn't imagining things. Strangely enough, a lot of the folks whose opinions I respected on RC have abandoned that clown act and have now showed up here as well.
As a side note, I ain't no Stonemaster, but I'm old enough to have the black and white issues of R&I and some Chouinard scottish crampon straps. Since I've been doing this for a while it was really painful to watch some of the things RC.com was doing to our "sport" (way of life). IMHO, Supertopo is what RC.com should have been but wasn't. The Stonemaster and Mussy threads here alone are priceless, and will someday be museum material. No offense to you old f#ckers. Wish I had been there. Looking forward to reading more.
SS
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Euroford
Trad climber
Chicago, IL
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internet forums inherently suck, all of them, thats just the way it is.
but all of these places do manage to attract a certain amount of super cool poeple, ultimatly i believe what you get out of it can be much greater that what you put in, as long as managed correctly.
it just so happens that its especially easy to get hours of horrifying bad advice and days worth of useless political blather.
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bleedr
climber
robber's roost
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i once got a "warning" from a mod for posting in the aid thread that the new zodiac was rated V2+
edit: i am dead serious
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