edit @snapsters Wikipedia page
20Here it is.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Rutledge
Take this, all of you, and feed it. You are all seasoned, credible wiki editors, and I expect you to fill this page with some of the most amazing content ever written. Go forth, mehtizens.
Please post your submission here.
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There is a shortcoming in the "woot" section of the page, involving where the name came from. It should read:
Matt came up with the name for Woot from his male prostitution days. The mnemonic WOOT held special meaning to Matt, standing for 'Wieners Only On Tuesday' making it an obvious choice for the site's name. The 'Box of Chickens' mystery item, which gained a cult like following, also owes it's name to Matt's promiscuous career path.
@TehMaliron I'm not sure that's what we're going for here...
@TehMaliron I find it humorous that I'm the only one who starred your comment.
@snapster Not anymore, man-whore! :)
@PurplePawprints my mistake... I thought "You are all seasoned, credible wiki editors" was tongue in cheek. :P
@TehMaliron It was funny and maybe that was what @marklog meant. I don't know. I just figured he meant real stuff about @snapster spun to make him sound even more genius.
I may, or may not, have added a couple of paper sack snapster gifs, with captions...
@Thumperchick I may, or may not have, laughed very hard at those sacks.
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@Thumperchick Clicking Like
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@Thumperchick Bravo!!!!
@Thumperchick THEY ARE GONE NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@Kidsandliz OHSNOES! Maybe @devyanks90 didn't appreciate those very accurate representations of @snapster.
@Thumperchick I just undid the revision that removed them. Hopefully I didn't screw anything up. I've never messed with editing wiki before..
@PurplePawprints The universe has righted itself… the woo is wooing...they are back. We can all now sleep easy tonight.
@Thumperchick for the record, i have not touched this article at all.
@devyanks90 someone's touching it as they are gone again. Somewhere or other there is a log to know the user name of who is deleting it. Perhaps you have a way of sending them a message telling them to leave it alone?
@devyanks90 Yeah, someone named Geni keeps changing it. She's an administrator, so I don't know if there is any point in trying to revert her changes again.
@PurplePawprints Geni is in the right, so there's really no point in telling them to stop. (i'm not Geni for the record) Be sneakier in your edits and they may stay up longer (I hid a Colbert report reference on an article that stayed up for months) Or you could write stuff at http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Matt_Rutledge?action=edit&redlink=1
@devyanks90 Yeah, I didn't notice she was an admin last night when I reverted her deletion. I'm not that worried about it to try to take it any further.
@PurplePawprints Or you could add them back rather than revet...
@Kidsandliz Sure, but like I said, I'm really not interested enough to keep messing with it. You're welcome to, if you like.
@devyanks90 I didn't really think it was you. I also didn't expect those gifs to survive more than a day, but it was good for a laugh.
As someone with a Wikipedia administrator account, I feel like this is a bad idea.
@devyanks90 you hush. With the exception of the first comment, every single user here can be trusted with keeping @snapster's Wikipedia accurate, fair, balanced, boring, or whatever the standard over there is. Don't worry. Nothing to see here. Go about your day. These are not the rogue entries you are looking for...
Good Day.
I SAID GOOD DAY!
@devyanks90 aha so you're who I complain to about all these inaccuracies! clearly you are responsible.
@devyanks90 Umm well with at least 1/3 of the pages inaccurate anyway (at least according to studies I have seen which may or may not be accurate themselves) - what difference does it make if some of the more humorous/odd pieces of @snapster 's life are put there for the world to admire and to possibly end up in some student's plagiarized school paper? It is standard everywhere that I know of that you can't use wikipedia as a reliable source anyway… might as well make it fun to read.
@marklog While I give you extra credit for combining two of my favorite movies, you forgot to add 'Sir' after the first 'Good day.' Not your fault though, I obviously blame @studerc
@Cinoclav
@snapster you are going to have to wait to complain until he is next month's goat… if he is next month's goat...
@marklog
@Kidsandliz it's not like I actually use said account on a regular basis. I was voted an administrator in late 2007 and quickly discovered the amount of petty bullshit that goes on behind the scenes. not really worth it but cool to say you can technically delete one of the world's top 10 web sites.
Matt is the breakfast octopus.
http://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/2014/july/matt-rutledge-woot-has-a-new-deal-mediocre-corporation?single=1
He owns it like a badge, wait it is his badge. (hover over Snapster's badge)
@caffeine_dude here I am, working hard to relieve others at Meh from having to be the narcissist douchebag. Please admire at my badge.
I can't believe this article completely glosses over the fact that he's the creator of The Simpsons.
@phatmass wow, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Groening has the coolest most expansive list of link references I've seen.
@snapster Damn. He really does have an impressive list of references. What a great pickup line: Hey baby, wanna see my bibliography?
Uh, I was going to share this page with my grandparents, who are confused about what a mediocre corporation is... but now I think they'll just get more confused.
How come there was no mentioning of the Woot-Yahoo phase?
@ckpwong I negotiated a deal with Yahoo such that Yahoo shopping would get it's own channel of inventory. We called it sellout.woot and that, along with Yahoo being a company that acquires others, caused it to be misconstrued as more of a joining together than intended. When you tried to visit it directly we would send the user to yahoo shopping, which also was confusing.
@ckpwong It's already covered in the Woot page, which is better because it's more about Woot than @snapster personally : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woot#Sellout.woot
@snapster I admit (Especially since I'm a supply chain specialist), I always thought that was a little weird. It didn't hinder me checking it out but I did always wonder just WTF was really going on.
@Bingo So Yahoo wanted to partner, but had the conventional assumption that they could make a percentage of sales. Instead, this monetized the traffic for them. We became content and drove up both new traffic and retention of existing traffic to yahoo shopping. In exchange, we got their traffic to see a deal and even created a new channel of goods without needing categorical differentiation. It worked ok. Their traffic was actually really mostly accidental passers-by though, so the value to us wasn't enjoyable long term versus the friction it caused our customers.
@snapster I seem to recall being annoyed by the extra clicks, or maybe it was waiting for the redirection (I don't recall the exact meh-chanics of the site)... But there were some interesting offerings there.
Since my edits got nuked, I'll post them here for prosterity. (Gifs by @patti) These were in the article intro, around Matt's mini bio.
A young paper sack, Snapster is hungry... for deals.
Having gotten a taste for flesh.... er... deals, Paper Sack Snapster has a rabid need for money and snark.