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Topic: Has anyone visited Larkin's old site lately?

Anonymous A started this discussion 11 years ago #46,388

You might get a laugh from what you see there.

Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 1 minute later[^] [v] #612,037

you expect people to know what that is?

Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 4 minutes later, 5 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #612,038

@previous (B)
Yes. Lurk more.

Anonymous B replied with this 11 years ago, 1 minute later, 6 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #612,039

whatever it is, it's shit, or i would know about it

Metæ? joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 2 seconds later, 6 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #612,040

@612,037 (B)
"Larkin's old site" is scatchan.net, which was a shit forum (literally — the browser icon was a poop). The admin of the site was "Scatman" and the joke was that he was called John Larkin because a Jazz musician by that name called himself the Scatman and was famous in the late '90s.

@OP
That's been up for months.

Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 9 minutes later, 16 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #612,043

@previous (Metæ?)
That forum was about Matt, child abuse moderation team, and later modabuse and post deletion until the site died.

Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 11 years ago, 23 hours later, 23 hours after the original post[^] [v] #612,269

@previous (E)
Stockholms universitet says differently.

Metæ⭐️ replied with this 11 years ago, 12 minutes later, 23 hours after the original post[^] [v] #612,273

@612,043 (E)
Yeah but at least you knew what to expect when the browser icon was a poop.

Anonymous F joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 3 minutes later, 23 hours after the original post[^] [v] #612,277

From the source:

<!--
RIP SCATCHAN.NET (2012-02-05 - 2015-07-23)
I'VE HAD A LOT OF FUN WITH THIS BOARD; IT WAS GREAT.

IF YOU'RE INTERESTED IN TAKING OVER THE DOMAIN NAME, CONTACT ME AT [email protected]

-scatman
-->

RWBY Rubarb? !!iNo3FkiZx joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 1 minute later, 23 hours after the original post[^] [v] #612,278

Is there any interesting story behind why he quit? Or did he just get bored of it? He was very into trolling, but I guess than running a whole website of BBS trolls could get tiresome, after a while. "Trolls trolling trolls".

@612,273 (Metæ⭐️)
I thought it was actually quite clever. Scatman, an esteemed BBS shitposter, wanted a site for him and his fellow shitposters to shitpost freely. What better way to mark his website as a shitposter space than with a shit icon?

Anonymous H joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 24 seconds later, 23 hours after the original post[^] [v] #612,279

@612,277 (F)
He wants $100 for just the domain name.

Anonymous F replied with this 11 years ago, 46 seconds later, 23 hours after the original post[^] [v] #612,280

@previous (H)
lol

Anonymous I joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 31 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #612,284

@612,278 (RWBY Rubarb? !!iNo3FkiZx)

I'd drop by from time to time and the last couple of months had almost zero activity. it wss pretty much just a couple of threads consisting of TG and matt raging against each other. It pretty much went dead after kook stopped posting.

Anonymous H replied with this 11 years ago, 10 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #612,286

@612,278 (RWBY Rubarb? !!iNo3FkiZx)
> Is there any interesting story behind why he quit?

Owner and I did a lot of PM's. He found it near impossible to find mods he could trust. Tryp gave up - kook gave up - bobby2sox was always sick. Maybe by now dead? Owner said it was so much work to keep the site clean. Only reason I was interested in it was its the only chan that was open for peer to peer PM's.

FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 48 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #612,312

@previous (H)
Bobby never existed.

RWBY Rhubarb? !!iNo3FkiZx replied with this 11 years ago, 5 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #612,315

@previous (FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI)
Bobby was a meme.

Metæ⭐️ replied with this 11 years ago, 3 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #612,316

@612,286 (H)
He was a 52 year old unemployed bricklayer from Margate who watched the Downtown Abbot DVD box set one too many times.

Metæ⭐️ double-posted this 11 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #612,317

@612,278 (RWBY Rubarb? !!iNo3FkiZx)
It was fantastic! So many shit fora owners try to pass their sites off as "serious" but good old Scatman was honest from day 1!

Anonymous H replied with this 11 years ago, 43 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #612,335

@612,312 (FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI)
@612,316 (Metæ⭐️)

Some fool called himself bobby - For sure it was no young teen.
Mater and Pater was a cute Shtick.

Anonymous K joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 1 hour later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #612,346

@612,286 (H)
HI SYNTAX

Syntax replied with this 11 years ago, 4 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #612,347

@previous (K)
High back atcha

FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI replied with this 11 years ago, 32 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #612,359

@612,335 (H)
> cute
yeah, nah, it's fucking creepy
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