Repurposing Schadenfood (meta)
by at 12:53 PM
I go through little fits of doing things with Schadenfood with its original intent (schadenfreude about food-related nuttery) but that's just kind of boring. I think the word "Schadenfood" can also be taken to mean feeding the soul of one who enjoys schadenfreude, and there are a lot of Internet communities which specialize on picking on single things but which are often very badly-implemented (such as using Blogger or crappy wikis or whatever), so as an experiment I've set up a forum on it, which currently just has two sections (food and comics, with some subsections for some particularly discussable comics).
The main thing is I don't want the forum to just be non-stop criticism of things, though. It's more about the revelry about things going wrong, so for example, my intent for the "xkcd" subforum isn't about picking on xkcd so much as laughing at all the drama it makes on the Internet (such as the xkcd sucks "community" and the fact that nearly every single xkcd comic leads to yet another Wikipedia edit war).
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