Satanosphere

Back before the word “blog” ever existed we had a monster of a website called Satanosphere. It was originally a place where a bunch of smartasses got together and made fun of and celebrated all the wackiness that’s on the Internet and in the world. It was a lot of fun, but it slowly died.

The problem was that many of the main contributors–Yours Truly inlcluded–went on to have professional jobs in the blogging world in some capacity. We like to think that Satanosphere had a lot to do with that, and because of this we found it rather sad that the site was languishing.

So here we are, at the new Satanosphere you see before you. It’s a little bit different, and not just in layout. The original site relied on a democratic voting process and a populist writing approach that at the same time was powerful and self-destructive. We’ve abandoned the anything-goes style and moderation queue in favor of a more structured system written and moderated by professionals.

This doesn’t mean that you’re left out of the fun, though. The best part of Satanosphere was always the comments that led to catfights, weddings, and even children. Those are intact and are your battleground.

Some of you might be wondering where the diaries are. They’re not here, that’s for sure. We know they were popular but at this point we’re not interested in hosting personal blogs for thousands of anonymous users and also being responsible for what they do or don’t say. You’ve got MySpace and Facebook for that.

And the site’s far from done. Running on the awesome WordPress platform (sorry, Scoop) we’ve incorporated lots of neat features like the Live OMG Feed on the right-hand column. All day long your hosts will be adding content to this feed as we find it, and it will always be those kinds of links you’ll want to send to your friends to look snarky.

In addition we’ll be adding other tools as we find them and verify that they will make Satanosphere that much more fun to use as well as interesting. As it is we’ve got a variety of feeds you can add to your Google Reader or other RSS client. Try them out.

In the end you can rest assured that Satanosphere is still home to the same cynical wit, interesting links, laugh-out-loud debauchery, and left-wing propaganda that you’ve been missing. We’re glad it’s back, and we think you will be too.

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