Boredatcolumbia - Revision history

Dlez at 07:26, 1 December 2024

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 There are now boredat pages for various different schools, the most active other than Columbia and Dartmouth being Carleton College's iteration <ref>https://carleton.boredat.com/</ref>. The cultures on these boards vary, Dartmouth's often making headlines for being notably raunchier and more controversial than Columbia's.<ref>http://thedartmouth.com/2013/06/21/bored-at-baker-stirs-controversy/</ref> There is also a "Global Board", where students from different schools can troll each other about which one of their institutions of higher learning is objectively better than the others.
-Boredat is a registered LLC in the state of [[California]]<ref>http://thoughtposter.blogspot.com/2013/03/boredat-llc.html</ref>.
+Boredat is a registered LLC in the state of [[California]]<ref>http://thoughtposter.blogspot.com/2013/03/boredat-llc.html</ref>. As of November 2024, the site is offline.
 == Demographic analysis ==

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 * [http://bwog.com/2012/12/14/imagined-community-an-editor-gets-boredbutler/ The Blue and White on the new b@b]
 * [http://columbialion.com/blog/boredbutler-a-guide/ The Columbia Lion's guide to b@b]
 * [http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=516236 Harvard Crimson, "He Was Pretty Bored, Too"]
 * [http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=515684 Harvard Crimson, "Bored at Lamont"]
 * [http://www.ivygateblog.com/blog/2006/10/students_united_by_internet_soul-crippling_boredom.html IvyGateBlog.com, "Students United by Internet, Soul-Crippling Boredom"]
 * [http://thoughtposter.blogspot.com/2011/01/history-of-boredat-in-9-versions.html A history of b@b, on the site's devblog]

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 * [http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2007/03/05/070305ta_talk_widdicombe The New Yorker, "The New Bathroom Wall"]
 * [http://bwog.com/2012/12/14/imagined-community-an-editor-gets-boredbutler/ The Blue and White on the new b@b]
 * [http://www.thedartmouth.com/article.php?aid=2007030501040 The Dartmouth, "Bored at Baker lets students opine on anything, anon."]
 * [http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/tools/papertrail/061208/tired_of_writing_stupid_papers.htm U.S.News, "Tired of Writing Stupid Papers? Post Something Stupid to a Website..."]

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 Boredat went back online in 2010 as version 8.<ref>http://columbiaspectator.com/2010/02/09/boredbutler-returns-after-shutdown</ref> Version 9 followed soon after, which is still the version in use now. Version 8 and 9 introduced a slew of new features including personalities, or pseudonyms, as well as required email registration. The site gained a devoted core of 20 or so personalities, plus anonymous users. It also remained popular at [[Dartmouth]]. Eventually, a global board was also introduced, where students from boards at other schools could communicate with one another. Another change enabled by registration was that your account would now track your post history as well as gather points for all the Agree, Disagrees, Profile Views and link clicks you received. Week leaders and all time leaders in points are tracked and visible on the site, presuming they use a personality. In order to address previous problems of inappropriate posts, and the subjectivity of what constitutes an inappropriate post versus what constitutes free speech, Jae decided to grant some trusted users moderator privileges, so that egregious posts could be put up for a vote for removal amongst the mods. If a post is put up for a vote, three affirmative votes can save it or remove it. Moderator status is a closely guarded secret LIKE THAT FIGHT CLUB RULE LOL. How one becomes a moderator is not transparent.
-As people graduate and new students enter Columbia, the core group of personalities continues to rotate. New power users emerge, and the board culture continues to evolve and shift. Ultimately it's the users that determine the culture of the board and community. There have been various power users in the past who have gained fame (or notoriety...or a bit of both) who are still on occasion a topic of discussion or influential on the board. The board now has its own history and mythology.
+As people graduate and new students enter Columbia, the core group of personalities continues to rotate. New power users emerge, and the board culture continues to evolve and shift. Ultimately it's the users that determine the culture of the board and community. There have been various power users in the past who have gained fame (or notoriety...or a bit of both) who are still on occasion a topic of discussion or influential on the board. The board has developed its own history and mythology over the years, as well as its own secrets which the anonymous format lends itself to naturally.
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 Boredat went back online in 2010 as version 8.<ref>http://columbiaspectator.com/2010/02/09/boredbutler-returns-after-shutdown</ref> Version 9 followed soon after, which is still the version in use now. Version 8 and 9 introduced a slew of new features including personalities, or pseudonyms, as well as required email registration. The site gained a devoted core of 20 or so personalities, plus anonymous users. It also remained popular at [[Dartmouth]]. Eventually, a global board was also introduced, where students from boards at other schools could communicate with one another. Another change enabled by registration was that your account would now track your post history as well as gather points for all the Agree, Disagrees, Profile Views and link clicks you received. Week leaders and all time leaders in points are tracked and visible on the site, presuming they use a personality. In order to address previous problems of inappropriate posts, and the subjectivity of what constitutes an inappropriate post versus what constitutes free speech, Jae decided to grant some trusted users moderator privileges, so that egregious posts could be put up for a vote for removal amongst the mods. If a post is put up for a vote, three affirmative votes can save it or remove it. Moderator status is a closely guarded secret LIKE THAT FIGHT CLUB RULE LOL. How one becomes a moderator is not transparent.
-As people graduate and new students enter Columbia, the core group of personalities continues to rotate. New power users emerge, and the board culture continues to evolve and shift. Ultimately it's the users that determine the culture of the board and community, although there have been various power users in the past who have gained fame (or notoriety...or a bit of both.)
+As people graduate and new students enter Columbia, the core group of personalities continues to rotate. New power users emerge, and the board culture continues to evolve and shift. Ultimately it's the users that determine the culture of the board and community. There have been various power users in the past who have gained fame (or notoriety...or a bit of both) who are still on occasion a topic of discussion or influential on the board. The board now has its own history and mythology.
 == External links ==

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 '''Bored at Butler''', or '''B@B''', or at times '''Bored at Columbia''' (with various capitalization schemes, a choice of "at" or "@", and various domain name suffixes) is an online hangout for bored people.
-The website was considered to be Columbia's version of [[w:4chan:|4chan]]. For some people it was the last resort, when there's no one on gchat, no one on [[w:facebook:|facebook]], nothing new on the net. However, it has since evolved into more of an online community.
+The website was considered to be Columbia's version of [[w:4chan|4chan]]. For some people it was the last resort, when there's no one on gchat, no one on [[w:facebook|facebook]], nothing new on the net. However, it has since evolved into more of an online community.
 The website was set up by [[Jonathan Pappas]] CC '06, a [[Sigma Phi Epsilon]] brother from West Virginia. He said that the site "illustrates what many college students would say if they weren’t culturally pressured to be socially acceptable. That was the idea to it. Take a college student, strip them of their identity and see what they have to say."<ref>See also, [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19 John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory], as expressed in "Green Blackboards (And Other Anomalies)", Penny Arcade, 19 March 2004. For the more academically inclined, see [http://www.samblackman.org/Articles/Suler.pdf John Suler, "The Online Disinhibition Effect", CyberPsychology & Behavior, Volume: 7 Issue 3, pgs. 321-326 (July 28, 2004)], [http://users.rider.edu/~suler/psycyber/disinhibit.html Revised, August 2004]</ref> Pappas himself frequently posts under the pseudonym Jae Daemon.

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 '''Bored at Butler''', or '''B@B''', or at times '''Bored at Columbia''' (with various capitalization schemes, a choice of "at" or "@", and various domain name suffixes) is an online hangout for bored people.
-The website was considered to be Columbia's version of [[w:4chan:|4chan]]. For some people it was the last resort, when there's no one on gchat, no one on fb, nothing new on the net. However, it has since evolved into more of an online community.
+The website was considered to be Columbia's version of [[w:4chan:|4chan]]. For some people it was the last resort, when there's no one on gchat, no one on [[w:facebook:|facebook]], nothing new on the net. However, it has since evolved into more of an online community.
 The website was set up by [[Jonathan Pappas]] CC '06, a [[Sigma Phi Epsilon]] brother from West Virginia. He said that the site "illustrates what many college students would say if they weren’t culturally pressured to be socially acceptable. That was the idea to it. Take a college student, strip them of their identity and see what they have to say."<ref>See also, [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19 John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory], as expressed in "Green Blackboards (And Other Anomalies)", Penny Arcade, 19 March 2004. For the more academically inclined, see [http://www.samblackman.org/Articles/Suler.pdf John Suler, "The Online Disinhibition Effect", CyberPsychology & Behavior, Volume: 7 Issue 3, pgs. 321-326 (July 28, 2004)], [http://users.rider.edu/~suler/psycyber/disinhibit.html Revised, August 2004]</ref> Pappas himself frequently posts under the pseudonym Jae Daemon.
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 * actual student concerns about privilege and social justice.
 * people trolling shitlibs.
 * linking to things on campus media/discussing spec op eds.
 * frats are stupid
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 ==Some History==
-* Boredat has existed in some form since 2006. By version 1.3 in 2006, Disagree and Agree buttons had already been implemented.
+Boredat has existed in some form since 2006. By version 1.3 in 2006, Disagree and Agree buttons had already been implemented and by late 2006/early 2007 boredat was at the height of its popularity with iterations at various other universities. <ref>http://thoughtposter.blogspot.com/2011/01/history-of-boredat-in-9-versions.html</ref> The site went through many updates and versions, eventually losing popularity and being taken offline by end of 2008 due to the high maintenance costs of the most recent version, version 7.
-* By late 2006/early 2007 boredat was at the height of its popularity with versions at various other universities. <ref>http://thoughtposter.blogspot.com/2011/01/history-of-boredat-in-9-versions.html</ref>
+Late October 2009 The original "retro" Boredat version 1.4 was allowed to exist in its original form at low cost. The activity there proved that people still wanted some form of Boredat. Nonetheless, many of the pains of the original version 1.4 had not been addressed and it was difficult to control the damage un-moderated anonymity can cause. Complaints  as well as threats of lawsuits emerged. As a result, on December 2009, the entire Boredat Empire was shut down.  In an open letter, Pappas explained that a recent slew of racist and homophobic comments pushed the content on the website beyond tolerable.<ref>http://www.ivygateblog.com/2009/12/in-wake-of-hate-speech-boredom-reigns/</ref> Pappas hinted that he would like to "build" the empire again with the help of coders from various Ivy League schools, and although he believed the shutdown was "temporary", he offered no guarantees.
-* The site went through many updates and iterations, eventually losing popularity and being taken offline by end of 2008 due to the high maintenance costs of version 7. Late October 2009 The original "retro" Boredat version 1.4 was allowed to exist in its original form at low cost. The activity there proved that people still wanted some form of Boredat.
+Boredat went back online in 2010 as version 8.<ref>http://columbiaspectator.com/2010/02/09/boredbutler-returns-after-shutdown</ref> Version 9 followed soon after, which is still the version in use now. Version 8 and 9 introduced a slew of new features including personalities, or pseudonyms, as well as required email registration. The site gained a devoted core of 20 or so personalities, plus anonymous users. It also remained popular at [[Dartmouth]]. Eventually, a global board was also introduced, where students from boards at other schools could communicate with one another. Another change enabled by registration was that your account would now track your post history as well as gather points for all the Agree, Disagrees, Profile Views and link clicks you received. Week leaders and all time leaders in points are tracked and visible on the site, presuming they use a personality. In order to address previous problems of inappropriate posts, and the subjectivity of what constitutes an inappropriate post versus what constitutes free speech, Jae decided to grant some trusted users moderator privileges, so that egregious posts could be put up for a vote for removal amongst the mods. If a post is put up for a vote, three affirmative votes can save it or remove it. Moderator status is a closely guarded secret LIKE THAT FIGHT CLUB RULE LOL. How one becomes a moderator is not transparent.
-*Nonetheless, many of the pains of the original version 1.4 had not been addressed and it was difficult to control the damage un-moderated anonymity can cause. Complaints  as well as threats of lawsuits emerged.
+As people graduate and new students enter Columbia, the core group of personalities continues to rotate. New power users emerge, and the board culture continues to evolve and shift. Ultimately it's the users that determine the culture of the board and community, although there have been various power users in the past who have gained fame (or notoriety...or a bit of both.)
 == External links ==

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 * Campus media, like members of [[Spec]] and [[Bwog]], frequently lurk b@b for the gossip and campus media discussion.
-* There is frequently a sizeable [[GS]] population amongst the userbase, probably because their school lacks even the pretense of physical community (unlike some of the other undergraduate schools, who at least pretend to have community.)
+* There is frequently a sizeable [[GS]] population amongst the userbase, probably because their school lacks even the pretense of physical [[community]] (unlike some of the other undergraduate schools, who at least pretend to have community.)
 == Frequent discussions ==

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	* Campus media, like members of [[Spec]] and [[Bwog]], frequently lurk b@b for the gossip and campus media discussion.		* Campus media, like members of [[Spec]] and [[Bwog]], frequently lurk b@b for the gossip and campus media discussion.
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		+	* There is frequently a sizeable GS population amongst the userbase, probably because their school lacks even the pretense of physical community (unlike some of the other undergraduate schools, who at least pretend to have community.)

	== Frequent discussions ==		== Frequent discussions ==