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Somethingawful.com, better known as [['''Something Awful]]''', is a popular comedy/parody website that's been around since the heady days of 1999. Its [http://www.somethingawful.com/ Main Page] features articles ranging from parody, to self-parody, to the downright surreal. Originally, the articles were all written by site founder Rich "Lowtax" Kyanka, but over time it has built up a large rotating staff of writers of varying quality. The site allegedly exists to chronicle and mock [[So Bad It's Horrible (Darth Wiki)|the worst things in existence]], but has branched out a bit since its founding and now has a number of features and articles that defy all characterisation, as well as extremely active forums.

The [http://forums.somethingawful.com/ Something Awful Forums] are the source of much of the site's notoriety. Its members, known as "goons", have to pay $10 (US) to join, and even more if they want to get avatars, access the archives, or use the Forums' "search" function. In spite of the cost of entrance, there are over 100,000 registered goons (and who knows how many [[Lurker]]s and banned users). In part this is ''because'' of the cost of admission: [[Electric Retard|no one]] wants to spend their ten bucks just to get banned for [[troll]]ing]] the next day. When you add in zealous moderators, you get one of the more controlled [[Message Board]]s out there.