Comments on: kuro5hin is dying

kuro5hin is dying

reklaw — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 13:11:10 -0800

Where is Rusty? An abandoned community cries out for its creator to return.

By: digaman

digaman — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 13:16:42 -0800

I took Rusty out for coffee a couple of years ago. Nice guy.

By: fvw

fvw — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 13:21:28 -0800

Did you remember to let him out of the car afterwards? Otherwise we may have solved the mystery.

By: xmutex

xmutex — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 13:21:34 -0800

Why is this on MetaFilter?

By: chrid

chrid — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 13:24:10 -0800

WHO is Rusty?

By: chrid

chrid — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 13:26:07 -0800

And would I need an <unknown _object_00235> to know what a Rusty is?

By: Space Coyote

Space Coyote — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 13:27:56 -0800

how long as K5 been nothing but crolling comments anyway?

By: botono9

botono9 — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 13:32:25 -0800

READ the link.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 13:41:12 -0800

Last I talked to rusty he was doing some consulting work. Perhaps he made that his main focus for now.

By: seanyboy

seanyboy — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 13:53:29 -0800

Poor old Rusty. He's gone a few weeks, and already they're threatening to sue him. This is nothing but user petulance. Rusty should revoke all memberships, and replace the front page with a big picture of him & the missing $30,000 in some Hawaii brothel.

By: DrJohnEvans

DrJohnEvans — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 13:56:04 -0800

Judging by the fact that hundreds of current K5 members are engaged in a heated debate on that topic, I'm not too worried.

By: me3dia

me3dia — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 14:15:38 -0800

Boy, and I thought Matt had it bad when he took a vacation.

By: smackfu

smackfu — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 14:15:47 -0800

This is why website owners shouldn't beg for money. Because then the users feel owed.

By: birdherder

birdherder — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 14:17:46 -0800

What is interesting is Rusty is still there. He last posted about 3 hours ago. He's just ignoring the coup attempt on the front page.

By: pyramid termite

pyramid termite — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 14:18:27 -0800

Hey, I hang here to get away from K5 whining ...

By: unreason

unreason — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 14:21:37 -0800

This is why website owners shouldn't beg for money. Because then the users feel owed. Erm, if the owners ask for money, then the users are owed. I'm not a member of K5, but the poster there seems to have a point. If Rusty doesn't feel like doing administration duties, he could at least let somebody else handle it for awhile.

By: reklaw

reklaw — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 14:29:15 -0800

Really, it doesn't even matter whether Rusty does any admin duties or not. The site gets by just fine without him. People have been gently teasing him about running off with the donated money for ages. The thing that really rankles here is that he's decided to leave new user registrations turned off for no reason other than his own whim -- fine, if it was his website and his alone, but in a big way k5 belongs to the people who post there, the people who donated.

By: the fire you left me

the fire you left me — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 14:31:45 -0800

30K is a lot of money for a community weblog. I wonder what is the ad revenue for this community weblog.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 15:07:41 -0800

Where is Rusty? who cares?

By: timeistight

timeistight — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 15:14:57 -0800

Wasn't kuro5hin reorganized as a non-profit some time ago? Doesn't Rusty report to a board of directors?

By: ed

ed — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 15:16:00 -0800

Photoshopped pictures of his wife? Sounds like kuro5hin has anger management issues.

By: Driph

Driph — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 15:17:29 -0800

Heh wow, rusty doesn't even have to do anything and he makes it onto the front page of mefi. It's okay everybody, he comes back!

By: roboto

roboto — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 16:04:42 -0800

I've gotten so much value out of xxxxxxxx, it's absoutely great. I think there's some people on the xxxx that are being absolutely awful though, it's important that you can do whatever you feel needs to be done without having to poll everyone first. When you've basically given X,000 strangers an awesome present, there's not going to be much complaining if you need to make some changes. -guerilla, from a website that doesn't exist Thanks Matt et al for the awesome present.

By: waldo

waldo — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 16:12:39 -0800

This is silly. Scoop is set up on k5 such that the site runs itself. The site is fairly autonomous. Sure, he's got obligations to the community, but on his own calendar. "k5 is dying" is getting as tired as "Apple is dying."

By: specialk420

specialk420 — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 17:38:47 -0800

who cares? hahahaah...

By: jbrjake

jbrjake — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 19:04:57 -0800

Last I talked to rusty he was doing some consulting work. Perhaps he made that his main focus for now. posted by mathowie at 4:41 PM EST on April 27 To elaborate on our illustrious leader's comment, I believe the consulting work Rusty's busy doing is for Markos and Jerome. I'd never used Scoop before Kos implemented it...the threading and diaries really make it addictive. IMO, Rusty should take all the time he needs and/or desires to improve the system, and I'm certain it will be worth it.

By: weston

weston — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 19:30:12 -0800

in a big way k5 belongs to the people who post there, the people who donated Yeah, although the word "donation" sortof implies that there's not a technical obligation on the part of the recipient. The talk of suing rusty for fraud seems pretty stupid and mean spirited. Calling him to make an accounting seems reasonable... threatening to whack him with a stick just seems wrong.

By: Gyan

Gyan — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 19:42:52 -0800

weston: Yeah, although the word "donation" sortof implies that there's not a technical obligation on the part of the recipient. If only it were donations. This story paints a different picture. Disclaimer: I didn't contribute anything, besides some stories. Neither am I complaining about anything. I "left" the site a year back.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 20:17:07 -0800

Altogether you contributed over $37,000 in memberships, donations, and text ads holy shit! *looks forlornly at blort*

By: crunchburger

crunchburger — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 20:32:09 -0800

ha! quonsar++ I'd love to see the blort text ads.

By: maggieb

maggieb — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 23:39:38 -0800

Corrosion happens. All my best to Rusty.

By: t r a c y

t r a c y — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 23:42:52 -0800

i want to see the photoshops of his wife. i've always wondered how bad they could have been to get him that upset. a few years back i had the same thing happen to me, but i was only offended because they used a body that's not as good as mine to p-shop my head onto. otherwise i thought it was pretty funny.

By: nish01

nish01 — Wed, 28 Apr 2004 01:31:01 -0800

is Rusty = Elliot "Rusty" Harold?

By: RustyBrooks

RustyBrooks — Wed, 28 Apr 2004 10:46:48 -0800

Difficult to masturbate to.