Faceparty tells critics to F*** Off, suspends entire site

Not a marketing ploy.<p>My (old) firm used to represent the founder behind faceparty (Lance). He really is like that in person and would certainly shut the site to spite the users.<p>Good to see it has had a positive effect though!

From the headline I was thinking, "there goes techcrunch being sensationalist again".<p>But no, they're pretty much dead on here.

Good for them.<p>Running a social network is like running a bar (or pub in this case). If the owners get fed up and are willing to live with the consequences, why not lock the doors and go to the zoo for the day?

C'mon guys, it's a time tested business strategy.<p>Anyone remember Cartmanland?<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartmanland" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartmanland</a>

Am I the only one that wanted to sign up after reading the message? ;-)

This is the most entertainment I've gotten from a social network in a long time.

Am I the only one who can't stand that horrible spelling? "TO THA HATERZ" indeed.

Wow, but then again, I'd be pissed too. People's attitudes about what they are 'owed' can be offensive sometimes and the Internet just seems to bring out the worst jerks. Maybe if Faceparty shuts down for good, people will learn to not expect things for free? Hopefully, but I doubt it.

A rare case of reverse psychology actually working on the net? (...especially for a "social" media site).<p>Anyone know of other successful cases?

Unlike Twitter, you've got to have good uptime for this sentiment to be effective.<p>Tags: [Faceparty] [Twitter] [uptime] [reliability] [denied]

Can we please keep the poor language (or allusions to it) off the frontpage? It used to be the sort of thing that separated hacker news from the rest.