What is this warcry?

[Raven's Nest]

It became like a private forum for them. Free from the inane and the vacous and a chance to engage in a forum where everyone was familiar with eachother.

 

[Luftwaffles]

I can see the appeal.

 

[Evil Smurf]

It became like a private forum for them. Free from the inane and the vacous and a chance to engage in a forum where everyone was familiar with eachother.

I can see the appeal.

I have that here. In user groups and some threads you can enjoy the community. Each to his own I guess, I had to shut the warcry tab because it was too sad.

 

[Scrustle]

Interesting story. I recently heard about Warcry myself and read the Wikipedia page. I even went to take a look for myself. It's cool to hear the story behind it though. I always find it interesting to hear the history of dead sites that used to be big. The internet doesn't really make a habit of recording these kind of events.

Although I didn't exactly scour the whole place I didn't see any recent posts on there that weren't just spam bots. The last posts from what appeared to be humans were news posts from 2 years ago. I might have to go exploring for this "safe haven" section and see what people are up to.

 

[Erana]

I personally don't care about the 'merger' or whatever you want to call it. Admittedly I was kind of getting annoyed by the spam whores on our site, but I found that I genuinely liked some of the 'new' members from the escapist.
I think what a lot of people need to consider is that many of us from Warcry have been apart of this forum for 4+ years... Goddamn we're losers.

oh god oh god I'm in this guy's position now. Except their equivalent of The Escapist was dying...

...I feel awful for them. I love my 'Scay 'Scay!

 

[Hero in a half shell]

So this is what happens to websites when the traffic dies down and they are left to decay. Interesting that in the real world something abandoned gets reclaimed by nature, in the internet it gets bugged up by new browsers not interpreting the old code correctly (see the thread title bar of the link I've posted) and gets reclaimed by spambots.

This is the future of the Escapists, the future of all internet sites eventually. It's like staring into the eyes of the Terminator.

Warcry was founded sometime in the 90's I believe. It's owned by Themis Group (the guys that own The Escapist) so when The Escapist was founded in 2005 they must have linked the forums with each other. People from Warcry can post here (which is why you see people with join dates from before 2005) and we can post there.

Are the forums there moderated?

Maybe thats where sentient bots are created.......

Well if this is anything to go by it seems the spambots have won http://www.warcry.com/forums/index/79-WarCry-Discussion

Seriously, what the hell?

Thats what im trying to tell you. Its like a training/breeding ground for spambots.

Well based on that I'd say your theory holds water. We've actually found the spambot in its natural habitat

It's amazing. You could almost do a David Attenborough style commentary of it while surfing the forums. I found a thread started by one spambot, which another spambot recognised was about the topic it was spamming, so it joined in the discussion and posted its necessary links in a creepily sentient sort of way.
http://www.warcry.com/forums/read/79.385746-Dont-miss-the-Diablo-3-website

Did some digging

Quote by mrcheese.

also need to highlight this

most of the warcry regulars went there once and deemed it pseudo-intellectuals and children arguing over meaningless drivel

Good to see that the escapist never changed.

Damn straight!

Captcha: I'm sorry dave Ok, that's just plain terrifying.

 

[Hazy992]

So this is what happens to websites when the traffic dies down and they are left to decay. Interesting that in the real world something abandoned gets reclaimed by nature, in the internet it gets bugged up by new browsers not interpreting the old code correctly (see the thread title bar of the link I've posted) and gets reclaimed by spambots.

This is the future of the Escapists, the future of all internet sites eventually. It's like staring into the eyes of the Terminator.

Warcry was founded sometime in the 90's I believe. It's owned by Themis Group (the guys that own The Escapist) so when The Escapist was founded in 2005 they must have linked the forums with each other. People from Warcry can post here (which is why you see people with join dates from before 2005) and we can post there.

Are the forums there moderated?

Maybe thats where sentient bots are created.......

Well if this is anything to go by it seems the spambots have won http://www.warcry.com/forums/index/79-WarCry-Discussion

Seriously, what the hell?

Thats what im trying to tell you. Its like a training/breeding ground for spambots.

Well based on that I'd say your theory holds water. We've actually found the spambot in its natural habitat

It's amazing. You could almost do a David Attenborough style commentary of it while surfing the forums. I found a thread started by one spambot, which another spambot recognised was about the topic it was spamming, so it joined in the discussion and posted its necessary links in a creepily sentient sort of way.
http://www.warcry.com/forums/read/79.385746-Dont-miss-the-Diablo-3-website

Wait, so the spambots are actually spamming other spambots? What the actual hell? That's fucking meta

 

[Evil Smurf]

So this is what happens to websites when the traffic dies down and they are left to decay. Interesting that in the real world something abandoned gets reclaimed by nature, in the internet it gets bugged up by new browsers not interpreting the old code correctly (see the thread title bar of the link I've posted) and gets reclaimed by spambots.

This is the future of the Escapists, the future of all internet sites eventually. It's like staring into the eyes of the Terminator.

This is what will happen when the captchas take over the world and kill all the humans. Nothing but sad and spam. Imreally hope this doe not happen anytime soon to the escapist.

 

[Padwolf]

That's quite an interesting story. I clicked onto the site and it really was like a ghost town. Filled with spambots though. They seem to breed there. It's sad, I had to close the tab.

It's amazing. You could almost do a David Attenborough style commentary of it while surfing the forums. I found a thread started by one spambot, which another spambot recognised was about the topic it was spamming, so it joined in the discussion and posted its necessary links in a creepily sentient sort of way.
http://www.warcry.com/forums/read/79.385746-Dont-miss-the-Diablo-3-website

That is creepy and so very weird!

 

[Evil Smurf]

Did some digging

Quote by mrcheese.

snip

I actually found out about warcry last year, abit after the lulsec thing when the scapist was horribly horribly slow and groups wouldnt load.

Never knew the history behind it though.

also need to highlight this

most of the warcry regulars went there once and deemed it pseudo-intellectuals and children arguing over meaningless drivel

Good to see that the escapist never changed.

Woah, I feel bad for the guy.

Talk about destroying a website. The guys on the escapist seemed to have fucked up pretty bad. Destroy a website and drive away it's users. No wonder there are only about 2 users from 2003 and around that these days.

I don't think they knew it would happen, I hope not Otherwise Kross will have actualy done sosomething evil.

 

[Hazy992]

What a depressing thread. A vile mix if hate, jealousy and power tripping.

Hate, jealousy and power tripping? What do you mean? From who?

 

[Hazy992]

What a depressing thread. A vile mix if hate, jealousy and power tripping.

Hate, jealousy and power tripping? What do you mean? From who?

The little war between the two when they merged. From the description in this thread, it seemed to have been quite a hostile pairing, with a few people becoming rather aggressive and being kicked out of their communities.

Oh OK I gotcha. Yeah that is pretty depressing, especially when you see how the spambots have taken over there. They're actually spamming each other now. Sucks for the old Warcry users.

 

[Jedamethis]

Nooooo people discovered our secret bunker D:

Seriously though, Luft is right. Nowadays it's dead bar me, Portal, oppp and whoever else wants to drop in on that one thread, plus Skynet.

Damn, I've been meaning to drop in again for ages. Linky?

 

[Lil_Rimmy]

Using this site makes me feel dirty now lol.

It seems we have discovered this site's dirty little secret.

Assassin squads have been dispatched to all our locations, and this thread will soon disappear without a trace.

Quick!

To the bunker!

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/groups/view/The-Internet-Bunker

 

[Lil_Rimmy]

I wonder why they keep the website going, everything in it is dead. No articles or anything are posted.

I've wondered that ever since I discovered the place.
They seem to have given up moderating it.

I guess Themis Media's servers have plenty of storage space for spam?

Mmmmm....

Spam...

Is it still fresh after all this time?

 

[Hazy992]

I wonder why they keep the website going, everything in it is dead. No articles or anything are posted.

I know it just seems like a complete waste of resources. They're essentially keeping the site going for spambots.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Using this site makes me feel dirty now lol.

It seems we have discovered this site's dirty little secret.

Assassin squads have been dispatched to all our locations, and this thread will soon disappear without a trace.

Warcry died because it lacked one thing...

Brovengers all up in here, defending yo threads!

OT: It's like a dark mirror world of the escapist...

 

[Hazy992]

I wonder why they keep the website going, everything in it is dead. No articles or anything are posted.

I know it just seems like a complete waste of resources. They're essentially keeping the site going for spambots.

Maybe it's a spambot test bed?

Well it seems to be a spambot breeding ground by the looks of it. Maybe that's been their plan all along; to make so many spambots they take over the internet.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

it just seems like a complete waste of resources. They're essentially keeping the site going for spambots.

My only guess is that, given the shitstorm over merging the two sites, they're now too scared to shut that site down completely.

Warcry died because it lacked one thing...

Brovengers all up in here, defending yo threads!

ORLY?

http://www.warcry.com/groups/view/The-Brovengers

Shhh, we don't talk about the Dark Limbo Brovengers.

It's scary over there...

 

[Hazy992]

it just seems like a complete waste of resources. They're essentially keeping the site going for spambots.

My only guess is that, given the shitstorm over merging the two sites, they're now too scared to shut that site down completely.

Doesn't seem like there's enough members left to even cause a shitstorm to be brutally honest.