CornellWatch

Once before, CornellWatch has potentially offended differently-abled people in order to accurately insult a college gossip site. Well, folks, tonight we are stooping to that level again: the fallen JuicyCampus.com now redirects to a new college gossip site entitled CollegeACB.com, which is legimately even more retarded than both Juicy and PoshSociety. ACB stands for Anonymous Confession Board, which sounds like a place where a Yalie would go to ask for penance after they broke into the dining hall to steal milkshakes when they were high. In any case, CollegeACB is trying to take a similar “positive” angle on college gossip as PoshSociety, as per their terms of use:

We urge users to report posts that are any of the following:

• Posts that are excessively sexist, homophobic, racist, or otherwise extremely and intentionally harmful to specific people.
• Deragatory [sic] posts towards other members of the community.
• Post containting private information about specific individuals.
• Spam or posts containing commercial solicitations.
• Posts containing pornographic material.
• Discussion of illegal activity, or posting links to other websites that deal with such activities.
• Posts which breach another member’s privacy, i.e. containing phone numbers, addresses or other personal information.
• Copyright violations.
• Threats of any kind.

Unfortunately, it seems that the lofty ideals to which ACB aspires are undercut by the petty lowliness of its denizens. Take, for example, this mildly sexist, intentionally harmful, and fairly incomprehensible post about one “Katie Bard”:

HOTTTT HOTTT HOTTT

Posted by anonymous guy 02/07/2009 05:56 PM | Last Reply 02/08/2009 12:06 AM

omg Katie Bard is such a horny easy sleezy biotch. she’s so loose its i feel like im wearing wants and i lost 200 pounds. She has more STDs than she has white bloods cells. Theta! She asked me to have butt sex.

More venereal diseases than white blood cells? If one were to indulge “anonymous guy” with any level of seriousness, one would have to hope Ms. Bard has a terminal case of leukemia. Despite these minor pitfalls, head admin Peter Frank claims in his grand opening press release that ACB “is quickly becoming the central hub of college campuses around the country, giving students the freedom to voice their opinions and ask questions about any facet of college life… the ACB is a website that helps build community and engenders the open exchange of information.”

Okay? The fact that JuicyCampus redirects to ACB assumes that the audience will be the same gossipy malicious bunch. Somehow, I fail to see how following in this salacious tradition will ever breed the positive “exchange of information” to which ACB aspires. But good luck, ACB. If anything, you give me something to blog about. I look forward to writing your elegy in the same poetic tradition as Juicy’s.

Tags: ACB, JuicyCampus, PoshSociety

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This entry was posted on Monday, February 9th, 2009 at 7:20 pm by D. Evan Mulvihill and is filed under new media, news, opinion. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.