Worldface started life in November 2009 after Phil from teamfishcake and a friend of his came up with the idea. We hoped it would be successful, but didn't have any idea exactly how successful it would be.
We were linked to from messageboards, the massively popular b3ta.com newsletter, and we were mentioned in the mainstream media. We are incredibly grateful that this exposure has enabled us to reach audiences we may otherwise never have reached.
Moderating the site until 3 O'Clock in the morning was a problem we loved to hate. Although tiring, your posts were making us laugh and we really enjoyed the fact that we had created something people loved.
We have always tried to stick to the same moderation policy. We won't delete posts we simply don't like. We will only delete spam. By spam, we mean unnecessarily abusive posts, repetitious posts, posts with illegal content and so on.
In our opinion, and speaking only generally, the quality of posts submitted recently have become so poor that the line between what is spam and what isn't spam has been significantly blurred. The situation has reached the point where we are receiving emails of complaint and there are now even arguments between users on the site fighting about what should and shouldn't be posted about. This isn't what Worldface was made for. The site has ceased to be something we want to be associated with and we no longer enjoy running it.
Therefore, we will be "retiring" the site at 2PM UK Time on Tuesday 27th July.
This isn't a decision we have come to lightly, and we know some of you will be angry with us. Sorry, but we are not prepared to let the site continue its decline. No more status posts, comments or groups. In the next week or so, we'll be extracting some classic quotes from the site and leaving them there as a reminder of the fun times.
We just want to say a sincere thanks to all the people that made Worldface a roaring success.
(Of course, Team Fishcake will be carrying on with many more silly projects, so feel free to stick around.)
Cheers
Team Fishcake
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Awh.. Too bad. But yeah, more and more Hetalia-related or couple-related posts were making it's way onto WorldFace.. I hope in a while from now, people will start to see where they went wrong and maybe, just maybe, WorldFace would come back?
ReplyDeleteI loved checking the site daily to laugh at the political jokes, but yes, they have been dissapearing and the day the whole Russia and Canada thing appeared, I knew it was going downhill..
Ah well..
Thank you anyway for having giving us this wonderful site; it was fun while it lasted!
Worldface should have an hetalia-section, that would have helped a lot ;-)
ReplyDeleteTHANKS FOR CREATING such a wonderful place to have fun, it was really cool and stuff. So sad that it had to end, but what can you do. Too much sweet is unhealthy.
ReplyDeletePoland: I don't get it.
I never really typed on Worldface or anything, but I had friends who were obsessed with it, and I mostly loved lurking on it. The jokes on it made my day.
ReplyDeleteI can fully understand why it had to close, but at the same time, I hope that maybe someday, you'll change your minds and it will reopen.