The Competing Open Thread Sites

With the demise of the open threads over at Gawker, some of the more industrious geeks have decided to create their own boards.  In the few days following Gawker’s Meg Ryan-like reconstruction, Twitter was ablaze with people pimping their own sites, and recruiting the better commenters to join them.  It was like a commenter free agency.  When the dust settled, most people frequented two sites, yippayap ( http://yippayap.com/ ), and ATGAR ( http://atgar.dailyentity.com/ ).  Both now have a de facto #whitenoise in them, with yippayap even going so far as to call its corresponding page whitenoise, and yippayap also has the relocated #groupthink.  I haven’t ventured into groupthink, because it’s not really my demographic (straight male who blogs while he poops), but the whitenoise pages are pretty interesting.  They’re like some sort of anthropologic study in how something like 4chan came to be.  There’s no censorship, no threat of banning or destarring, and as a result, they have become a center for ridiculous memes, and fake commenting accounts.  Also, those who I Could.  Not.  Fucking.  Stand.  are there.  I ain’t going to either of those sites, which is a shame because #whitenoise was where I began my open thread career.  Now that’s gone.  Looks like I’m with you guys until BMC decides to revamp this site.

P.S. I have no idea how to use wordpress, so I’m just guessing on the shit below where I type this stuff.  If I fuck it all up, my apologies.