Talk:Rusty Foster

message: The final paragraph goes "A long-running joke is that Rusty wears a monocle and enjoys yachting. The joke is a reference to the success of Kuro5hin's pledge drive". I think this needs to be further explained; it makes no sense. -Ashley Pomeroy 17:17, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I added a context and references for the "monocle" joke. Xunker 07:39, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Something to do with the Monopoly Man, he used to wear a monocle or something before they removed it from him. Spent the money on hampster monocle polish made from hamsters or something like that? Rustina0 (talk) 07:14, 10 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Monocle 

message: So if he's no longer the CTO, where dose he work now?
:Well, why don't you send the wikistapo after him to find out? Ninth Circle
:I thought everybody knew that Rusty just sails the world on the superyacht he bought with the CMF funds, laughing and polishing his monocle. Or something. Ubernostrum 18:26, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Update 

message: Note that per WP policy WP:BLP and WP:RS, any claims about Foster, especially controversial ones like anything about a "gay marriage", must be backed up by reliable sources.  Message board threads by others discussing Foster, even if they are on Foster's own website, are inappropriate.  If you have questions, ask them here before you insert dubious material in the article.  Edit warring about this will only get you blocked. Gamaliel (talk) 17:04, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Any claims about Foster must be backed up by reliable sources 

message: I was duped about this story at first. It was on Reddit in the tech area. Someone clued me in that Rusty's Twitter account was active and he was not dead. I am looking for reliable independent sources on this hoax. I have added two so far. One of them mentions @RustyK instead of @RustyK5 as the Twitter account. There is a user named Tiber who did it, I asked Rusty on Twitter about it and he said Tiber already told him about it. I cannot prove that Tiber was in on it with Rusty to get media attention in 'disruptive journalism' to drive marketing to Kuro5hin, but I suspect it a bit. But my further tweets with Rusty he blocked me before I could learn more. I will be adding any sources I find out this, but somehow they seem to be the only reliable, third party, independent sources on Rusty Foster. That he was a victim of a prank/hoax, so that is all I can prove. The other stuff that references Kuro5hin links most likely needs to be removed or find another source for them. I can't seem to find any sources on the CMF fundraising, or Rusty's connection with The Daily Kos, or a review of Rusty's software Scoop, or anything else for that matter as the Internet is full of Kuro5hin trolls writing about Mr. Foster that has Google Bombed the results to the first few pages. Arno Stark (talk) 06:36, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Slashdot has a story suggesting the hoax was perpetrated by Rusty himself. =//= Johnny Squeaky 06:39, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text:  Do you have a link to it? Arno Stark (talk) 22:17, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/01/05/0416255/rusty-foster-isnt-dead =//= Johnny Squeaky 23:36, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rusty is Dead Hoax 

message: Does anyone really give a damn about this guy? He scored an advertising deal for his group weblog 13 years ago and hasn't done anything interesting since. AfD, imo.
Tripel sec (talk) 01:36, 20 October 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: For that reason, I suggested merging this article into Kuro5hin. Jarble (talk) 11:41, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

text: Kuro5hin's Alexa Rank on 2015-07-21 was about 300,000, significantly lower (ie. more popular) than many notable sites which have Wikipedia articles.  I have a cyberstalker whose Kuro5hin nick is "modus"; modus argues against my own notability whenever someone submits a Wikipedia article about me, he argues against Kuro5hin's notability.  Consider that Abraham Lincoln died in 1865 yet he is still regarded as notable enough for Wikipedia.  User_Talk:MichaelCrawford 67.206.183.8 (talk) 22:09, 22 July 2015 (UTC)

text: Arguably, that wasn't very interesting either.142.105.195.20 (talk) 15:59, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

text: I vote delete. Completely fails notability. CTA MART (talk) 18:20, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

text: I vote for merge. Trollaxor (talk) 00:31, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

text: I'd merge as well. I can't really see this passing WP:ANYBIO #2. Honestly the Kuro5hin page needs a lot of work too, especially in the citation department. Inanygivenhole (talk) 22:37, 7 May 2014 (UTC)

text: I recommend both are kept without merging. It's almost getting to a year now. Let's solve this move issue once and for all. Thanks. →Enock4seth (talk) 06:48, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: WP:BOLD editing would have solved it once and for all as well. I had forgotten about this page to tell you the truth, and if nobody fixes this by the time I get around to it I'll do whatever the consensus is. BTW--I can't help but note that you didn't provide a criteria, was that not a vote (it's a little ambiguous)? Inanygivenhole (talk) 00:25, 6 August 2014 (UTC)

text: I think it's time to close the merge discussion as "no merge". The article now has 6 paragraphs, of which only the first mentions Kuro5hin. If anyone still has notability concerns, please take it to AfD.--greenrd (talk) 18:05, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  Kuro5hin was a troll site, Rusty claimed he created it for the LULZ. He claimed it was an experiment that failed. He made a lot of money off advertising on K5 and building Scoop sites for other people. It should be noted that Rusty did not write Scoop all by himself, it was a team he hired and many walked away or quit over time because Rusty used the CMF money to fix his house instead of Scoop and K5. Some say this makes Rusty a scam artist or an e-beggar, but Rusty ran K5 for as long as he could and since it made him look bad as K5 hosted troll stories like FNH, Kuro5hin going down meant Rusty keeps all of that troll material off his Google search. This is actually Internet History as the rise and fall of Scoop and the CMF is one of the first startups that succeeded by failing. Orion Blastar (talk) 03:43, 30 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notability? 

message: Rusty Foster has influenced a lot of people to try their own web blogs and other things. Kuro5hin still lives on here:
* Kuro5hin at Facebook
* Kuro5hin at Imzy
* Don't Sue Me Bro aka DSMB which is currently down
* Kreddit
* FreeK666 Trying to open source the Kr5ddit code to become FreeK666 so anyone can host it like they did Scoop
Please feel free to add in any other groups or sites influenced by Kuro5hin. Orion Blastar (talk) 03:47, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Post-Kuro5hin Era