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Possible bias? The Alexa site rankings hail from a variety of places, instead of the target audience's countries (Hong Kong and America). Also, it should be noted that 9gag hosts rage comics (those black-and-white comics mentioned in the article) which come from Reddit. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.61.21.177 (talk) 23:51, 20 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

And by Reddit, you mean, 4chan. On that note, even thought it's pretty popular, and, dare I say, is 9gag even noteworthy? It hasn't achieved any mainstream knowledge. The most "important" thing that happened there was the recent 4chan-9gag "wars" (read, a bunch of basement dwellers sending another bunch of the same populace a bunch of gore pics). Nothing is noteworthy, even though I love the site.190.92.53.210 (talk) 04:56, 25 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Controversy? i think that is by no means controversy, and if it was it should be on the 4chan wiki page--ReneVenegas95 (talk) 01:07, 11 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Protect page

I kindly ask the first sysop who sees this to (re)protect this article from edits by non-registered users, in order to end the bias that some people are trying to bring in. -- Petru Dimitriu (talk) 22:18, 17 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Notability

This website is of interest to many internet users, especially Brazilian, Romanian and others. This can also be seen from its rising Alexa rank. This is why I see this article as notable. Share your thoughts about this. -- Petru Dimitriu (talk) 19:56, 20 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Written by retards

This article is awful almost beyond description. Wikipedia has truly become the encylopaedia that anyone can shit all over and no-one ever bothers to clean up. Let's look at a few examples of just how obscenely bad this article is:

9GAG is a comedy website set in Hong Kong[2]...

It is not "set" anywhere. The source for this bizarre and meaningless claim does not support it.

Launched in 2008,[citation needed] this website is best known for recurring use of internet memes.

POV.

The website is, to some extent, similar in presentation to a blog, whose posts are called ”gags” and are shown nine per page, hence the name of the website

Absurdly verbose. Reads like it was written for a nine-year-old's school project.

Gags consist entirely of images (and less often YouTube embedded videos)...

Self-contradictory.

9GAG is commonly known by its users to be addicting, or as many users may say, "it takes your soul".

Reads like it was written by a child with a short attention span. Ridiculously unencyclopaedic.

Rules...

Any talentless clown with nothing better to do can copy and paste promo material from a website. It's not encyclopaedic.

Ranking...

Arbitrary countries, boring statistics, totally pointless.

to the viral nature of the site's content, 9GAG is among the 500 most visited websites in the world

Non sequitur.

The author Clay Shirky, in his book Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in the Connected Age, refers to 9GAG as "a product of the cognitive surplus

And so fucking what? A copied and pasted phrase from a book tells no-one anything if you can't be bothered to give even the slightest bit of context to it.

The fraction of Wikipedia editors who give a shit about quality is vanishingly small. The firehose of shit will eventually overwhelm what little quality content remains.

Reply

I should say that it would have been a lot more efficient if you had edited the article, instead of taking your time to bash the editors, which might well have been inexperienced. This is what Wikipedia is about - when somebody makes a mistake, you should correct it, not post harsh critics on the talk page as an annonymous then expect to be treated as the wisest man. I did some modifications to the article meanwhile, according to your suggestions. Thanks anyway. -- Petru Dimitriu (talk) 18:20, 22 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The article's locked. Otherwise, obviously, I would have edited it myself. 201.214.172.241 (talk) 05:00, 23 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Sign up for an account and edit the article. Nobody prohibits you. -- Petru Dimitriu (talk) 22:22, 23 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Y U INSIST ON REMOVING MY MEMES PICTURE?

I believe that my picture is quite useful, as it provides people with the main memes used on 9gag. Memes are a vital part that distinguish 9gag from other funny blogs. Please leave my picture there; i know it does more good than bad here. --Georgy90 (talk) 17:54, 24 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Stop horsing around and check your talk page. You are making 9gaggers seem crazy. Then you wonder why the article is criticised and 9gaggers bashed... -- Petru Dimitriu (talk) 21:15, 24 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Cyberbullying

They've engaged in a lot more of it than what is mentioned. In fact, they've been persistently engaging in it on FB memorials.