NARV

NARV
Join date January 01, 2006
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they can't make YTMNDs :(

NARV is an acronym for New Age Retarded Voter. At the beginning of 2006, YTMND found itself prospering more and more in the public eye, with a number of sites gaining notoriety in the press and blogosphere. With this rise in popularity came an influx of new, inexperienced users. Of these, the stupidest were labeled NARV, first by a discreet group of senior YTMNDers. Although NARV-like behavior has always existed on YTMND, its influence is now much more strongly felt and the term has fallen into increasingly widespread use, to the point where it is frequently misunderstood and/or abused.

Characteristics

NARVs are characterized by a minimal understanding of YTMND history, culture, or the artifacts that define the tone of YTMND, and exhibit no desire to learn them. Some have stated that the primary result of emerging NARVism is the increase of highly-ranked poorly-made sites that would have never reached popularity even in YTMND's recent past. Others cite their influence as a deterioration in the sites overall quality, having to sit through a greater percentage of bad material to find the good. NARVs are not necessarily 'noobs', however generally speaking, NARVs generally have more likely been new or infrequent users of the site.

Voting habits

Many NARVs will vote exclusively or , with uninformed justifications often accompanying either category of vote. NARVs often view the rating system as a way to make people feel better or, more recently, control the rank of YTMNDs on the front page, rather than as a quasi-objective method of ranking YTMNDs. Over time, the term "NARV" has focused more on singling out these split voters rather than creators of bad or recycled material.

Site creation

Although the name NARV refers to voting, it is not limited to that. NARVs that do create YTMNDs often do so with minimal effort. NARV YTMND creation can be observed when a new original YTMND is posted and within minutes, fad music is added and knock-off Ridin Spinnaz/You Spin Me Right Round, Wonderful Time, Break my Stride, Epic Maneuver or Move Bitch YTMNDs of the same GIF are released.

A similar tactic is often employed utilizing GIFs from long-standing classic YTMNDs and pairing them with unrelated fad music. To make matters worse, these uninspired couplings often fail to utilize Google or YTMND's search feature to verify if their created site has already been issued by another NARV. NARVs often do not cite source material of their creations. Occasionally a NARV may be an unintended Parasite.

Bottom feeding

As described above, NARVs often create sites for fads that require the most minimal of effort. NARV sites often cluster around a small group of fads which some view as being overdone or having had peaked long ago. Generally it is vague or open-ended fads based on the music selection that are most likely to end up considered NARV fads by the end of their run. (Primary examples include Best Day Ever, Myspace Suicide, and Epic Maneuver).

See Narv Fads for full listing of NARVish fads.

Other types of sites that are considered to be of NARV nature includes:

• Screen shots of news stories with no alterations, notably Dick Cheney's Hunting mishap and Pluto's downgrading from a planet. Conversely, "lol", "pwned", etc. is added in blurry red letters
• Gloating of raids of other websites (this includes "Forum Registration Disabled" sites, which tend to appear after a forum raid)
• In-Jokes

It should be known that some of these fads will have good sites, and that creation of one isn't an automatic induction into NARVdom, however the majority that are created often lack effort.

Criticisms of NARV as a concept

The concept of NARV-like behavior is in no way new to YTMND. Some have accused those employing the term of elitism, charging that theft of content, unoriginality, and rote reprocessing of existing content is responsible for much of the popularity of many classic YTMNDs and YTMND itself. Some have voiced the opinion that such behaviors were simply more widely tolerated in the past when the site was smaller. This argument follows that nearly all YTMNDs borrow content from other sources, and that many respected YTMNDers meet the criteria put forth in this article, and as such, the criteria simply discriminates against new users. Creative interpretation of old fads remains a respected form of creating new YTMNDs, and some feel that classifying some adherents to this technique NARVs while letting others pass based on subjective criteria unfair. Another argument put forth is that NARVs are a construction of YTMND's current "front page" voting culture, and as such, the lack of a more constructive and creativity-oriented method of evaluating YTMNDs is as equally to blame as the so-called NARVs themselves.

Counter-argument

Although NARV-like behavior has been apparent on YTMND, first openly manifesting around such fads as Ualuealuealeuale and Ridin' Spinnaz, NARVs have constituted an increasingly larger proportion of the YTMND user base. NARVs have justified each others' crass stealing of well known humorous images from a small number of websites, be it YTMND (see Parasite), 4chan, b3ta, or SomethingAwful. Due to a proportionally smaller number of users willing to openly downvote or point out site theft for fear of being "e-venged", NARVism has flourished and constitutes a threat to the viability of YTMND. Indeed, the NARV effect is not unique to YTMND. It been observed in other voting-based websites, such as YouTube. In the end, the argument falls back to the point that such behaviour is simply more prevalent. Since the creation of YTMND Spy, users have the ability to see for themselves if only voting 1 or 5 is an overly common practice. Many would make the claim that it is.

Care in use of the term

Recently, some users have begun describing any user they dislike, downvoters, eBaum's World sympathizers, or those who are generally disliked as NARVs. Many use the term simply to describe any user who they feel is ruining the website. Some who originated and helped popularize the term have urged the community to utilize the term only with the utmost discretion, verifying carefully that potential NARVs are evaluated against the criteria listed on this wiki entry. In fact the terms' originators have come to de-emphasize the fad elements and concentrate more on criticisms against split voters. Because of the abuse of the term by a large number of users who just don't get it, many of the originators of the term rarely use it anymore, and have come to live with increased NARV-like behavior as an inevitability on YTMND.

Anti-NARV sites

• Don't Let NARV Happen to You
• Dennis Nedry steals & submits crap
• NARV anti-virus

Offenders/Prominent NARVs

#	User	NARV level	Crimes Against YTMND
01	vex5	Critical	AOTS contest runnerup with stolen material; posts stolen material; resubmits to make top 15, then downvotes all other sites on the up-and-coming list so he can make the top 15.
02	FanaticallyInsane666	Stable	Posts stolen material.
03	h4x0r	Critical	split voter, questionable taste
04	Keyblademaster99	Critical	Downvotes all Classic style YTMNDs, but has yet to make a YTMND.
05	BananaClock	Critical	Fond of the "Van Damme dancing" GIF, which has been posted over 100 times before.
06	BubbytheTourG	Hopeless	Update - split voter, uses NARV term improperly to accuse others despite being one, tried to remove himself from this wiki in anger, troll
07	likeakiller	Critical	True NARV, by title definition.
08	Tal27	Critical	Split voter, even upvotes sites without sound; e-venges.
09	scorpkris	Caution	Puts other GIFs to the new NARV fad music; makes screenshot YTMNDs.
10	sboss	Critical	NARV voter; NARV site maker; revenge voter.
11	Acidrainman	Hopeless	100% NARV.
12	zalbane	Critical	Entirely split voter, WoW YTMNDs.
13	WTL	Stable	Split voter.
14	SenatorZuul	Stable	Loves all crappy fads; a "bad" upvoter; admits to e-venging.
15	Dallin	Critical	It's amazingly obvious.
16	nathanfat37	Critical	E-venger; relentless nag; dead fad whore.
17	NARV	??????	is this a parody gimmick account or a celebration of NARVdom? stay tuned.
18	redhex	Critical	Split voter; relentless nag.
19	Lambon	Critical	Split voter; genuine dumbass; loves "fuck you" posts.
20	Ziggah	Critical	Picking up on a theme here?
21	chimp-toaster	Critical	...because you should.
22	rawr	Caution	Homophobic, jingoistic, evenging junior high reject. Can't spell the word "hamster," but loves to insult people anyway.
23	yourpenis	Hopeless	A NARV that calls other users NARVs.
24	EmoFTW	Critical	Split voter; has never even 3'd or 4'd.
25	JazRad	Caution	Split voter; CRAPTMND enjoyer.
26	blizzard	Hopeless	Lacks sense of humor; mass downvotes non-WoW sites; posts links to viruses in comment pages.
27	st00pid-n00b	Hopeless	Only votes and ; downvotes sites that clearly don't deserve it.
28	jimtownresident	Hopeless	Massive split voter; votes on whether or not he likes the movie the GIF is recorded from.
29	galaxhood	Hopeless	Big time split voter; upvotes crap and downvotes good sites.
30	dunesw64	Caution	General troll; e-venger; split voter.
31	SIZK	Stable	Big split voter, but somewhat new user; wait and see.
32	spatan117	Caution	Not entirely split voter, but downvotes often (and has the nerve to whine about downvoting).
33	falco1234	Critical	Split voter; repetitive "gay" styled comments.
34	Kratos222	Caution	Split voter; obsessed with penis pumps and advertising IRC channels that no-one could possibly care less about.
35	K7	Hopeless	Split voter; one of the original NARVs; makes alternate accounts (now known as downvoter/attention whore ZEROEVILDARKCOOL).
36	koning	Hopeless	Makes screenshot YTMNDs and NARV YTMNDs; split voter.
37	lambon	Stable	Split voter; mildly annoying commenter (usually either a "lol" or "fuck you").
38	KingD	Hopeless	Split voter, e-venges everyone who gives him a 1 and 5s everything else. Posts stolen and very old material.
39	eric5150	Critical	split voter and aware of it, anti-proper citing of image and sound
40	heybombguy	Critical	Uses YTMND as an image-hosting site, makes tons of personal YTMNDs, revenge downvoter, has multiple alts for downvoting. All sites are total crap.
41	philibuster	Critical	split voter, openly admits to downvoting or upvoting based on who made it (anti-syncan, etc)
42	Lillian	Critical	split voter, fave sites are eon8, nip slips, also leaves repetitive attention whore comments
43	fetusdoctor	Critical	thousands of votes and still almost completely split voter
44	Torchy	Critical	thousands of votes and still almost completely split voter
45	Valawrath	Critical	Split voter
46	Stu22	Caution	Split Voter
47	explosivofueled	Caution	Split Voter
48	whitepower89	Hopeless	Ytmnd abuser, sends angry pm's, split voter, the worst you name it
49	TRQ	Hopeless	Almost 100% split voter,e-venger, all sites consist of images stolen from mass media sites
50	Patriotic	Critical	Completely split voter
51	leetsauce	Critical	Almost completely split voter
52	wok7	Hopeless	Split voter.
53	MuffinBear	Critical	E-venger. Most site content is stolen.
54	AquaX	Hopeless	Split voter, e-venger, belligerent spammer, and an overall asshole. Avoid at all costs.
55	Mee	Hopeless	Completely split voter, troll, spams sites for no reason to piss people off, downvotes but hasn't created any sites of his own, posts viruses in private messages.
56	MistahKennedy	Hopeless	Split voter, troll
57	robo-cock	Critical	100% split voter
58	stayelusive	Critical	Split voter
59	BIGDICK	Critical	Split voter. Currently an account labeled "BIGDICK2" spams the comment section of various sites providing a link to BIGDICK. BIGDICK denies ties to the BIGDICK2 account.
60	BIGDICK2	Critical	Split voter. Possibly a troll account posting comments in all caps providing a link to BIGDICK.
61	lolnader	Stable	Split voter.
62	[1]	Caution	Split voter.
63	firesbh	Caution	Split voter.
64	cF-cid	Critical	split voter
65	A7tec	Critical	calls people NARVs but votes more like a NARV himself. example of how the term has been abused
66	thePlease	Critical	spams sites with same comments and is a major splitvoter
67	izlude	Critical	split voter and e-venger
68	goalstie	Critical	has yet to even vote 2 stars, split voter, is likely alt account of kangshoop
69	lex	Caution	Split voter. Comment spammer. Wrong.
52	LUE1337	Hopeless	Split voter, e-venger, average site rating of 2 with 11 out of 15 sites below 2.0, and prolific downvoter (avg. vote 2.0). Repeatedly posts a link to one of his NARV sites. List of YTMNDs includes misleading links to gay porn, scat porn, and just porn in general, as well as the original NEDM-spawning, cat burning video. Reposts classics (the 404 YTMND) with misleading titles ("Stephanie Strips for You"). }