Updated 05-May-2020.
Mondo shtuff from around the internet, all about DATALOUNGE!
My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: DataLounge is an internet forum with approximately 6.5 million page views each month . site’s appeal revolves around its appreciation of wit, satire, and “pointless bitchery” site was created by DataLounge affiliated with other gay-and-lesbian-oriented websites . site evolved to include discussion forums covering lesbian, religious, and sexual issues . special-interest subforums for fans of the Lord of the the most popular forum was the Gossip Forum, which dwarfed all others in both traffic and number of discussion threads created . in 2005, DataLounge underwent a major redesign. all forum topics collapsed into one general discussion forum called “The DataLounge Forum” with this redesign came a policy change that limited access during high-traffic “Primetime” periods to fee-paying subscribers dataLounge administrators say Primetime is necessary to prevent slowdowns of other Mediapolis sites . in the summer of 2007, DataLouunge instituted a policy that only paying members could start threads . the the webmaster reinstituted Primetime, in part due to a rapid proliferation of racist trolls . another major site redesign was phased in during 2014 and 2015 . Rather than multiple pages, the site now a “Flames and Freaks” slider setting allows for global adjustment between two extremes . users can also ignore individual posters and/or entire threads, as well as bestow “Wit and Wisdom” (W the latest iteration of DataLounge uses cookie-based tracking to assign “reputation” to site visitors . non-paying visitors may start threads, but they must lurk for a minimum of a Authenticated posters were numerous DataLounge’s early years . site culture discouraged authenticated posting as attention-seeking and self-aggrandizing . most “authenticateds” stopped posting under their username cross denied rumors in interview with Barbara Walters and her co-hosts on the View . six months later, cross announced engagement to stockbroker Tom Mahoney . cross is believed by many posters to be a close