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Fucked CompanyFucked Company is a web site that was created by Philip J. Kaplan (aka pud) around May 2000 for his friends, initially as a "dot-com dead pool" where players could compete to see who could most accurately predict which dot-com companies would be the next to fold, screw up, or otherwise embarrass themselves. The site's name is a parody of FastCompany , a magazine that along with Upside, Red Herring, and Wired were tireless boosters of the internet tulip mania of the mid to late 1990s. The site became an underground hit, with users finding out about it via word of mouth. Eventually, Kaplan realized he had a potential money maker on his hands and added free and for-pay services like: rumor listings, discussion boards, even a brief foray into customized gay porn on demand. As of late 2000, Kaplan claimed site revenues of US $80,000 per month based on subscriptions to his rumor-alert service (presumably most of the subscribers were headhunters and companies keeping track of their competition).
The ForumsThe front page is updated on an irregular basis with occasional new postings, but most of the activity that goes on through FC is at the message board at http://bbs.fuckedcompany.com or through its corporate proxy friendly aliases at http://www.okaygood.com and http://www.newsdiscussion.com. The message board is commonly referred to as simply "FC" by its denizens. Trolls are abundant as registration is not required to post and moderation is purposely lax. The forum regulars hail from all around the world which makes for a very diverse atmosphere with some very active discussions politics, culture, and taboo sex . The message board is rather infamous among the internet savvy for its members' frequent "attacks" on other message boards where the victim board is swarmed with objectionable links, pictures, and text. Over time as the FC community has become less cohesive and more apathetic, the number and quality of these has declined to being almost nonexistant today. The shutdown of goatse.cx has deprived FC trolls of their most popular tool. Particularly famous invasions were stormfront.org and CChat.net . MembersIt is well known that 80% of these monikers are owned by 20% of the posters (which follows the Pareto principle) and that pud himself accounts for hundreds of these names. Many of the unregistered users use the forum for venting (or trolling) on politically incorrect subjects such as racism, pedophilia, sexual deviancy, etc, and anti-Semitic invective directed at pud himself. The most common unregistered moniker is a simple ".". Even so, you can still get a lot of useful advice from the board on a large variety of topics. FC rumors and speculationIt is rumored that several comedians, including Jon Stewart and Howard Stern, have trolled FC for material. It is rumored that there is a secret forum called "F3" that only certain people may access after being voted in. This was a fact until a few years ago when the board was changed due to spankygate and that forum was deleted. Everyone knows that there is a new F3, though. SpankygateSpankygate was brief period of FC history where Spanky, one of the most prolific posters, broke into the elite F3 forum and began copying every thread and pasting them to a different web site for all to see. Thus the board in general was able to see F3 admission nominations, voting, and personal information of some to the members. Naturally this caused an uproar and ultimately all the mods (who were actually acknowledged in Phil's book) resigned in disgust. Many of the posters from that era have never returned to FC, at least under their old monikers. From that point on moderation became even more lax and this gave rise to the racist trolls and bots that dominate today. Slang and JargonThe board has given rise to a distinctive vocabulary and spawned numerous acronyms that can seem arcane indeed to the uninitiated. A few common examples for people who want to join this forum:
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