I got this email from wolfwall not sure if they are talking about TWW or not.

> Hi Scott,
>
> By now you've probably heard about The Homepage For The Pack, WolfWall,
> and seen the chalkings around campus. If not, you can visit it at:
> http://WolfWall.com
>
> WolfWall has everything you need as an NC State student and a resident of
> Raleigh. I know this because I AM an NC State student and I included
> everything that you will ever need on WolfWall.
>
> You may have received an email from a group last month claiming to be NC
> State's Student Homepage, these people have never been to Raleigh, nor do
> they attend NC State. WolfWall is the REAL NC State Student Homepage.
> WolfWall is NOT owned by a company or people located 671 miles away in
> Amherst Massachusetts that have never been to Raleigh. WolfWall is NOT
> just a "blanket" site for every college that just has the colors changed
> to red and a few NCSU links added. WolfWall is NOT dedicated to over 100
> colleges, we are ONLY for NC State.
>
> We are always looking to improve WolfWall, if you have a suggestion or
> just notice something that is missing, please do let me know and I will
> respond to you personally and discuss your idea.
>
> Make sure that you set your homepage to WolfWall so that you can have
> everything an NC State student needs right at your fingertips.

10/12/2009 11:25:27 PM

yeah they're talking about tww, but they're either deliberately lying to ignorant freshmen or they are ignorant freshmen.

tww is the original, and the template for all the others. but we all know that. i say we fuck wolfwall up. hack it to hell.

10/12/2009 11:27:27 PM

i don't think that's referring to tww

10/12/2009 11:27:49 PM

I'm in

10/12/2009 11:28:45 PM

I would gladly join in, but I was so fucking confused when I went to their site, I got mad and rage-closed the tab

10/12/2009 11:29:03 PM

uh-oh

10/12/2009 11:29:09 PM

671 MILES

10/12/2009 11:29:18 PM

hmmm maybe they're not talking about tww. i was thinking that the new owners were from mass though

10/12/2009 11:29:52 PM

Quote :

"I would gladly join in, but I was so fucking confused when I went to their site, I got mad and rage-closed the tab"

10/12/2009 11:30:38 PM

Administrative Contact:
Holland, Trey
813 Spring Run Rd
Winterville, North Carolina 28590


252-756-7720

Edward E Holland III (TREY, GET IT)
Major:Computer Science
Class:Junior
EMail: eehollan@ncsu.edu

also i'm pretty sure its against the rules to farm email addresses from the student directory for a for-profit website

10/12/2009 11:32:59 PM

Quote :

"rage-closed the tab"

EPIC INTERNET RAGE

10/12/2009 11:47:11 PM

Quote :

"also i'm pretty sure its against the rules to farm email addresses from the student directory for a for-profit website "

Which rules?

10/12/2009 11:47:47 PM

they do have a link to TWW on their website. I do have to agree that the website is somewhat confusing and it doesn't have a forum i can find

10/12/2009 11:48:57 PM

honestly, if someone has to bash another website to promote their site, their site obviously sucks balls.

10/12/2009 11:50:24 PM

ncsu computer use policies for students. i'm just guessing here.

even if it's not breaking any rule, it's clearly unethical and a lame way to get traffic to your site no site has ever been spammed into success

10/12/2009 11:51:44 PM

Big time. This kid could get expelled I would think.

10/12/2009 11:52:47 PM

if he was a serious recruiter he would paint the tunnell

10/12/2009 11:53:17 PM

i, too, bash TWW


bitches need to step up they game. shit's slow and the talent is weak

10/12/2009 11:53:47 PM

Quote :

"even if it's not breaking any rule, it's clearly unethical and a lame way to get traffic to your site no site has ever been spammed into success "

The people who can't grasp this are the ones who aren't capable of understanding these things



I hope someone has emailed edward holland this thread already

10/12/2009 11:55:10 PM

might be talking about http://www.forthepack.com

10/12/2009 11:55:23 PM

if you hover Your Links : NCSU Links you will find TWW at the bottom.

this site doesn't even have a forum, shit they can have it as their "homepage"

slap a button, or several that lead to TWW and everything is gravy

it is kinda slick how they tied all the relevant NCSU links together along with WRAL and the Technician's headlines... hell you should even inquire as to integrate the 2 sites more, as in, that one's the students "homepage" and this the primary forum. = flood of new users.

though that email is hilarious

tww is original...

10/12/2009 11:55:41 PM

Quote :

"http://if he was a serious recruiter he would paint the tunnell"

I believe he did. I remember seeing chalk all over campus about this place.

[Edited on October 12, 2009 at 11:56 PM. Reason : `]

10/12/2009 11:55:47 PM

IOP1

10/12/2009 11:59:01 PM

i can't find the message board or the student interaction

wtf is wolfwall again?

Quote :

"make wolfwall ur homepage lol"

my homepage is staying igoogle, fuck this noise.

[Edited on October 13, 2009 at 12:04 AM. Reason : .]

10/13/2009 12:02:32 AM

In the email he is talking about campuslive.com (website for nc state is http://www.campuslive.com/ncstate). Back a few months ago there was an article in the Technician about it.

I used the site for about a week, and switched back to forthepack.com. The only thing I do like about it is how you can change the background and put up whoever you like....for instance Adriana Lima


anyways here's the article
http://www.technicianonline.com/news/campuslive-aggregates-web-sites-1.1881777

Quote :

"CampusLIVE aggregates Web sites New Web site provides ‘one-stop shop’ for students By Sneha Patel, ?Correspondent Print this article Share this article Published: Thursday, September 17, 2009 Updated: Thursday, September 17, 2009 A New Addition to N.C. State’s Virtual World New Web site provides ‘one stop shop’ for students Sneha Patel ?Correspondent A relatively new addition to N.C. State’s virtual world is the CampusLIVE website. Launched only about three weeks ago, the site intends to provide a "one-stop shop" for students, according to Boris Revsin, the co-founder of the CampusLIVE Web site. This Web site, which is meant to be set as a homepage, includes several links to popular pages like Twitter, Rate My Professor, Pandora Radio, Facebook, and many major e-mail providers like Gmail and Yahoo Mail. It provides links to N.C. State specific sites as well, like MyPack Portal, GoPack.com and Vista. When set as a homepage, Revsin says this will save students the hassle of checking several different Web page every morning. Other things which are included are restaurant reviews for students to find a place to eat, local television listings, local weather forecasts and movie timings for nearby theaters. The Web site is a project that was created by college students from University of Massachusetts at Amherst in an attempt to simplify student life and currently spans 87 campuses across the country. According to Revsin, before this site is launched at any campus, a team is sent down and surveys the area and finds out where the students are eating and where they enjoy going. This is all done in coordination with the student campus representative. This information is then used to create a site for students to use that contains pertinent information. However, when the site was created for N.C. State, there weren’t any students on the team. Students can now enter input for missing links or apply to be a Campus Representative. There are “dozens of representatives” across the country, according to Boris Revsin, co-founder and Chief Operations Officer of CampusLIVE, and “currently looking to hire N.C. State students in representative positions.” According to Jeannene Lang, a freshman in English, “the fact that N.C. State students have been given input doesn’t bother me,” she said, “only because it’s all stuff that I already used, just in one place.” Restaurant reviews and hours of operation are also available on the site. The listing is provided free but the site generates profit through advertising. The advertising revenue covers the site's operating costs. “All the employees at CampusLIVE are 21-23 years old,” Revsin said, “so this isn’t some big corporation giant. We’re all student entrepreneurs working on a budget.” After about one semester, the entrepreneur group begins to hire interns at each of the campuses. The interns help keep up with the office side of the site, and are paid. None of the links that are featured on the website pay CampusLIVE, Revsin said, but certain sites such as Fandango and TvGuide have created partnerships with CampusLIVE. Revsin said about 500 students submitted their e-mail addresses during New Student orientation and received e-mail notifications about the site. The site now averages about 3,000 hits daily and has almost 1,000 registered users. Erin Kamm, a freshman in animal science, received notification through e-mail. “I find this site useful, only because it really does shorten the time that I’m on the Internet. Everything is just in one place,” she said. According to Revsin, 3,000 hits in three weeks is a good number due to the size of the campus. He said, “Our goal is to have 10,000 hits daily by the end of October.”"

10/13/2009 12:16:24 AM

oh fuck

this site has a cafeteria

I'm AstralAdvent and i approved this message.

10/13/2009 12:18:44 AM

TWW
ForThePack
WolfWall
CampusLIVE at NCSU

jesus, how many of these things do we need?


oh, and...

Quote :

"my homepage is staying igoogle, fuck this noise."

10/13/2009 10:39:39 AM

tww is nothing like those other 3 you listed

10/13/2009 10:44:27 AM

my homepage is about:blank

WHAT

10/13/2009 10:45:44 AM

egads, that "wolfwall" site is a fucking horrid jumble of epilepsy-inducing graphics.

and its amusing to see their "student organizations" link: they have exactly two:

      Wolfpack Club

      and

      Campus Crusade for Christ


yeah, they're going to do well.




[Edited on October 13, 2009 at 10:52 AM. Reason : ]

10/13/2009 10:51:11 AM

too fruity for me

10/13/2009 10:55:39 AM

finally a website that links me to gmail!

10/13/2009 10:58:51 AM

well, considering this site actually has a link to TWW I don't think they are bashing TWW.

10/13/2009 11:18:26 AM

lol at the comments to that technician article

Quote :

"christin carter Mon Oct 12 2009 11:18 This website is ridiculous. They simply made a basic website for their school and then copied it to make all the rest of the websites. If you want to see an original website for an NC State homepage, made by an NC State student FOR NC state students, check wolfwall.com. This is a much better website, and is much more useful. I received an email notification about campuslive, and I NEVER signed up during orientation or any other time to receive any or more information, so I dont know how much of that is even true."

ok, so this person is mentioned on http://wolfwall.com/about.html so clearly they are gonna be biased. and i'm pretty sure wolfwall is using a joomla template or something so the original website claim is silly. they both do exactly the same thing, and neither are very useful to begin with. and wolfwall spammed a bunch of people too. WEAK

[Edited on October 13, 2009 at 1:13 PM. Reason : ewww forthepack.com is terrible]

10/13/2009 1:10:24 PM

it doesn't look like any of the competition is even close to drawing TWW's userbase away - what's left of it anyways

10/13/2009 1:17:30 PM

Quote :

"my homepage is staying igoogle, fuck this noise."

INORITE... why the f would I change it from iGoogle when it's raccoon season?!!?!

10/13/2009 2:00:38 PM

oh snap, is that 190% GRAPE DRANK i see!?

10/13/2009 2:05:27 PM

^ ummm fo shiz... they change throughout the day and in the evening they ride turkeys and late at night they eat pumpkin pie and then they play hide and go seek.. and they also grill burgers, and rake leaves, and my personal fave is where the daddy raccoon has the leaf blower and the little baby one looks funny


YOU'RE WELCOME, to whoever gets the raccoons.

10/13/2009 2:07:24 PM

well... I tried to find the competition

but where's their badass forum?

I mean that's what they're competing against... right?

do they have one?

10/13/2009 2:08:53 PM

Quote :

"my homepage is staying google, fuck this noise."

10/13/2009 2:30:16 PM

wolfwall is a clusterfuck - but at least you don;t see this every time you login:

Server Error in '/' Application.
Runtime Error
Description: An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed remotely (for security reasons). It could, however, be viewed by browsers running on the local server machine.

Details: To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable on remote machines, please create a <customErrors> tag within a "web.config" configuration file located in the root directory of the current web application. This <customErrors> tag should then have its "mode" attribute set to "Off".

<!-- Web.Config Configuration File -->

<configuration>
<system.web>
<customErrors mode="Off"/>
</system.web>
</configuration>


Notes: The current error page you are seeing can be replaced by a custom error page by modifying the "defaultRedirect" attribute of the application's <customErrors> configuration tag to point to a custom error page URL.

<!-- Web.Config Configuration File -->

<configuration>
<system.web>
<customErrors mode="RemoteOnly" defaultRedirect="mycustompage.htm"/>
</system.web>
</configuration>

Server Error in '/' Application.
Runtime Error
Description: An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed remotely (for security reasons). It could, however, be viewed by browsers running on the local server machine.

Details: To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable on remote machines, please create a <customErrors> tag within a "web.config" configuration file located in the root directory of the current web application. This <customErrors> tag should then have its "mode" attribute set to "Off".

<!-- Web.Config Configuration File -->

<configuration>
<system.web>
<customErrors mode="Off"/>
</system.web>
</configuration>


Notes: The current error page you are seeing can be replaced by a custom error page by modifying the "defaultRedirect" attribute of the application's <customErrors> configuration tag to point to a custom error page URL.

<!-- Web.Config Configuration File -->

<configuration>
<system.web>
<customErrors mode="RemoteOnly" defaultRedirect="mycustompage.htm"/>
</system.web>
</configuration>

10/13/2009 2:31:45 PM

Hi Scott

10/13/2009 2:35:13 PM

Their code is not crazy at all.

10/13/2009 2:38:25 PM

^^^ troof

10/13/2009 2:45:02 PM

holy shit thats a lot of animation. mainly they need to keep the "wolfwall news" animation from zipping across the screen every 2 seconds..or worst case if they wanna keep annoying people with it then provide a pause button. a global pause would be good too.

and yeah it's not related to tww at all. it's just a pretty link dump.

10/13/2009 3:36:42 PM

That shit is horrendous.

10/13/2009 3:40:11 PM

the wolf web is a link on this site. which is pretty much just a collection of links ncsu students use everyday

so if they chose tww as some sort of "official" nc state messageboard why is everyone bitching?

10/13/2009 3:52:53 PM

neither thewolfweb.com nor brentroad.com are registerd to anyone in Amherst Mass...further, neither is partyincollege.com (if they were somehow implying that PIC came before TWW)

not sure what site they're referring to in the OP

10/13/2009 4:07:31 PM

^

Quote :

"In the email he is talking about campuslive.com (website for nc state is http://www.campuslive.com/ncstate)"

though it's not clear

10/13/2009 6:09:06 PM

i think the only reason WolfWall included tww on his site is so we wouldn't fuck with him

10/13/2009 7:03:51 PM