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shyguybry
04/30/24 12:04:48 PM
#101:


A general question, do you guys care that much about CE? The message boards could be wiped tomorrow and itll be just another day.
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Umbreon
04/30/24 12:05:52 PM
#102:


I care about the message boards.

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Charged151
04/30/24 12:06:10 PM
#103:


Umbreon posted...
I care about the message boards.
Ditto

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havean776
04/30/24 12:09:24 PM
#104:


shyguybry posted...
A general question, do you guys care that much about CE? The message boards could be wiped tomorrow and itll be just another day.
If that where true than you wouldn't keep making alts to come crawling back here each time you get banned.

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DoesntMatter
04/30/24 12:11:08 PM
#105:


havean776 posted...
If that where true than you wouldn't keep making alts to come crawling back here each time you get banned.
lol got eem

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Miquella
04/30/24 12:22:28 PM
#106:


shyguybry posted...
A general question, do you guys care that much about CE? The message boards could be wiped tomorrow and itll be just another day.

Maybe not CE specifically, but I do care about the boards. There are people I talk to here. Connections I've made. I also prefer the asynchronous style of this site. Reddit convos become confusing for me to follow once they reach a certain length, and you can't pay me enough to use Twitter/X.

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Evening_Dragon
04/30/24 12:22:49 PM
#107:


Umbreon posted...
I respect it.


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hockeybabe89
04/30/24 12:28:49 PM
#110:


shyguybry posted...
A general question, do you guys care that much about CE? The message boards could be wiped tomorrow and itll be just another day.
I care that a place I've frequented for decades is dying, alt account.

My life moves on when I'm not here, but it's still sucks to continue seeing Fandom and others shit up the Internet.

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iGenesis
04/30/24 12:53:37 PM
#111:


TC, just create your own web site and upload your guides there. You can even monetize them yourself with (hopefully non intrusive) banner ads and make money from your own work instead of fandom.

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Heineken14
04/30/24 12:54:29 PM
#112:


[LFAQs-redacted-quote]


How else will we know that he is better than us? Duh!

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StarFighters76
04/30/24 1:17:01 PM
#113:


s0nicfan posted...
Personally I'd recommend everybody remove all their guides before fandom tries to do some bullshit like quietly revise the terms of service to say that by continuing the post you forfeit all rights to ownership of your guides to fandom.

You know it's coming. It's just a matter of when.

As I have said before in other topics, I dunno if I could actually go through with doing that. One reason should be painfully obvious on why. Other than that, given all that I know with all the recent developments in the last couple weeks, I am deeply conflicted on what to do.

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Heineken14
04/30/24 3:49:14 PM
#114:


StarFighters76 posted...
As I have said before in other topics, I dunno if I could actually go through with doing that. One reason should be painfully obvious on why. Other than that, given all that I know with all the recent developments in the last couple weeks, I am deeply conflicted on what to do.

Obviously you're just trying to scoop up that $300k!

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STEROLIZER
04/30/24 4:16:46 PM
#116:


hockeybabe89 posted...
Not a single one of us gives a fuck about the profitability of Fandom's investments

I know, I just dont understand why not. If the site isnt profitable then the site dies. Its just common sense.

There are only a few choices here:

  • Fandom modernizes the site and successfully attracts a newer and more younger userbase
  • Fandom closes down the site because its unprofitable
The option of just leaving the site as is to slowly but surely wither away just doesnt exist. Its not an option.

I understand being anti-corporate. But I just dont understand wanting to be so anti-corporate that youd actually wish for this platforms demise. I mean, I love this place and I assume all of you do as well which is why Im behind the first bullet point and not the second one
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Murphiroth
04/30/24 4:18:36 PM
#117:


STEROLIZER posted...
I know, I just dont understand why not. If the site isnt profitable then the site dies. Its just common sense.

There are only a few choices here:

* Fandom modernizes the site and successfully attracts a newer and more younger userbase
* Fandom closes down the site because its unprofitable
The option of just leaving the site as is to slowly but surely wither away just doesnt exist. Its not an option.

I understand being anti-corporate. But I just dont understand wanting to be so anti-corporate that youd actually wish for this platforms demise. I mean, I love this place and I assume all of you do as well which is why Im behind the first bullet point and not the second one

Yeah man you love this place so much that you helped enable Tails and crew to harass people.

Why are you always so dishonest and disingenuous?
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SHRlKE
04/30/24 4:18:41 PM
#118:


Which option does banning politics talk and making CE private fall under?

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StarFighters76
04/30/24 4:21:16 PM
#120:


Heineken14 posted...
Obviously you're just trying to scoop up that $300k!

Yeah, if I wrote any guides lol.

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hop918
04/30/24 4:23:51 PM
#121:


SHRlKE posted...
Which option does banning politics talk and making CE private fall under?

It falls under getting rid of "incel behavior" according to Sterolizer
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MrMolinaro
04/30/24 4:29:00 PM
#123:


[LFAQs-redacted-quote]


Yeah, this is an insane level of corporate boot licking. That boot is all the way down his throat at this point.
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DoesntMatter
04/30/24 4:41:05 PM
#124:


STEROLIZER posted...
I know, I just dont understand why not. If the site isnt profitable then the site dies. Its just common sense.

There are only a few choices here:

* Fandom modernizes the site and successfully attracts a newer and more younger userbase
* Fandom closes down the site because its unprofitable
The option of just leaving the site as is to slowly but surely wither away just doesnt exist. Its not an option.

I understand being anti-corporate. But I just dont understand wanting to be so anti-corporate that youd actually wish for this platforms demise. I mean, I love this place and I assume all of you do as well which is why Im behind the first bullet point and not the second one
nothing Fandom is doing is actually modernizing the site and it won't be successful in attracting a newer and younger user base, because younger people don't use message boards or FAQs and are not ever going to be interested in using message boards, because they use social media and youtube and wikis. we don't wish for this platform's demise or for it to slowly but surely wither away. we are just not on board with Fandom's changes, because all that they are going to do is hasten the demise and hasten the withering away.

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SHRlKE
04/30/24 4:46:38 PM
#125:


hop918 posted...
It falls under getting rid of "incel behavior" according to Sterolizer

hello does that even mean

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Trumble
04/30/24 4:50:38 PM
#126:


P4wn4g3 posted...
Maybe Allen will start a new spinoff like he implied to someone in his thread and you can put them there later.
I'd definitely consider joining a spinoff run by SBAllen as long as I was still allowed to mock him on it.

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04/30/24 5:01:52 PM
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P4wn4g3
04/30/24 5:17:13 PM
#127:


ExtremeLuchador posted...
The internet archive is a thing. They accidentally lost a bunch of guides when they did a server migration 10+ years ago. That's the only way to read them now.
Internet archive keeps getting into hot water over copyrighted content. They have a pending lawsuit or two that might change the way they operate. Actually one went through against them and they are appealing it.

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P4wn4g3
04/30/24 5:19:38 PM
#128:


StarFighters76 posted...
Yeah, if I wrote any guides lol.
Does Neoseeker take maps?

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StarFighters76
04/30/24 5:27:12 PM
#129:


P4wn4g3 posted...
Does Neoseeker take maps?

Yes they do. They tend to scoop up my maps the moment they are posted here, or they did. I dunno if they still do, or how far back they stopped at. I think they asked me if they could host one map, and I guess that opened the door for them to host all my other stuff. But they respect they are my maps (no changes made and I am credited), so I don't mind them doing it.

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Miquella
04/30/24 5:33:40 PM
#131:


Maybe someone will be able to answer, but why exactly does this have to be a site restricted to just video game content? If increasing the userbase is the idea, then it would make sense for the site to be more social. I also don't see a younger audience being attracted to the site unless the site was modernized itself: video guides, profile avatars, updated layout, etc.

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divot1338
04/30/24 5:33:49 PM
#132:


How does an admin lose a bunch of documents? From a we site of all places.

Im truly baffled how that even happens.

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P4wn4g3
04/30/24 5:35:26 PM
#133:


StarFighters76 posted...
Yes they do. They tend to scoop up my maps the moment they are posted here, or they did. I dunno if they still do, or how far back they stopped at. I think they asked me if they could host one map, and I guess that opened the door for them to host all my other stuff. But they respect they are my maps (no changes made and I am credited), so I don't mind them doing it.
Well they are the only other site like this one that seems to operate in a friendly way with users and contributors. Have you tried opening an account there? If I have one there I haven't logged into it in over 15 years.

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divot1338
04/30/24 5:35:31 PM
#134:


Miquella posted...
Maybe someone will be able to answer, but why exactly does this have to be a site restricted to just video game content? If increasing the userbase is the idea, then it would make sense for the site to be more social. I also don't see a younger audience being attracted to the site unless the site was modernized itself: video guides, profile avatars, updated layout, etc.
We dont want any of that. Everywhere else is like that; we prefer the old fashioned way.

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Miquella
04/30/24 5:45:23 PM
#135:


divot1338 posted...
We dont want any of that. Everywhere else is like that; we prefer the old fashioned way.

That's understandable, but it's also understandable that any business with a userbase would want to increase their userbase. It's also why everywhere else is competitively doing better.

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TheMikh
04/30/24 5:49:04 PM
#137:


much respect. undermining their seo potential is the only way to meaningfully protest their treatment of our community really.

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Miquella
04/30/24 5:50:55 PM
#138:


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I agree. I don't see how shutting down and closing off boards would increase users. If anything it did the opposite by causing users to move on to discord and other social media.

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StarFighters76
04/30/24 6:05:09 PM
#140:


P4wn4g3 posted...
Well they are the only other site like this one that seems to operate in a friendly way with users and contributors. Have you tried opening an account there? If I have one there I haven't logged into it in over 15 years.

It is a thought for sure. I've been weighing different options for alternatives just in case. But you gotta understand. I have several thousand maps, and it would take a very long time to upload all of them. That's one of the issues I've been struggling with, whether it's removing stuff from here and/or uploading elsewhere.

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Luigi_and_Tails
04/30/24 6:13:41 PM
#141:


Some interesting thoughts here. Whilst I am a Tails, I'm not that Tails. I still do a double-take when I see someone mention Tails and think "aw fuck, what have I done now?"

I've loved this community since I joined 21 years ago. I don't see a reason to turn my back on it, and whilst I never really commented on politics, I did like to read various viewpoints and laugh at some of the arguments. As a mod I obviously saw the worst of the worst - but that was kind of par for the course. Just writing that reminds me of when we had meta-mod on the boards, god that must have been 15 years ago now!

Similarly I don't like seeing a board that I'm probably most active on (even though I'm not very active in general), closed off to newcomers. To coin a phrase previously used in this topic, the ball belongs to the owners of the site so they can do what they want, but if you change the rules then people might stop putting down their jackets. Maybe that's too British a saying.

Either way, I have no plans on leaving, and my actions are in no means any form of protest (well, I suppose technically they are), Fandom can run the site however it wants, but if by cutting off a community I've been active in for longer than some folks here have been alive, I think it's perfectly reasonable to cut off content I previously created as it doesn't go against any rule and aside from this one topic, I won't scream and shout about it.

To those of you who recognise my name and have read any of my guides before, thanks for remembering who I am and I hope my guides helped.

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HighSeraph
04/30/24 6:20:58 PM
#143:


I didn't think you were tails because you seem like a normal person

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STEROLIZER
04/30/24 7:08:27 PM
#144:


TMOG posted...
Is Stero the same guy who went to a Cheech & Chong NFT party because he was convinced they'd actually be there, but then it turned out they just sent over a video instead like the entire topic told him was going to happen, and the whole party was just a bunch of crypto bros trying to scam each other around some weed?

To be fair I went to another on in LA a month later and they were there, and I got to meet both of them, while my friend smoked with them on a couch. The entire thing was a giant warehouse rave, with an open bar that also gave away capri suns and pop tarts. Was freaking awesome!
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Kradek
04/30/24 7:09:40 PM
#145:


I applaud your resistance and hope more follow suit.

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STEROLIZER
04/30/24 7:15:32 PM
#146:


Umbreon posted...
At this point I don't think it's a gimmick, he's just genuinely that way.


I've been preaching all of this for the past three years. You know that more than anyone, because the Sex board was a good source of my rants. My whole gimmick is has been to criticize the old GameFaqs regime's user aquisition, retention, and growth strategy. Like its literally all I talk about.

How the site needs to be modernized, with a mobile app. Financial viability involves social media integration, influencer marketing, developer tools for game companies. The current core userbase is too influential, and eats alive any new (younger/normie) user that happens to stumble across the place, therefoer before any ad spend can be allocated for UA campaigns things like the "current events" board needs to be quaratined, or at the very least highly moderated, so as to keep the vibe from flowing into the game boards.

Like, it just made sense to me. I figured eventually whomever owned the place would try to either monetize it, or just sell it off. RV sold it, and now Fandom is going to try and monetize. All the things I've been preaching since 2021 are finally coming to fruition.

I'm like a kid in a candy shop.

Completely agree with the rest of your post though. Blocking him is best. He doesn't show up for genuine conversation.

@Umbreon You know that's false. We've been having genuine conversation for almost three years now. Just because we don't see eye-to-eye or I rarely if ever switch my position doesn't make it any less genuine. Like do you honetsly believe all those hours I've spent talking to you, and the walls of text I've sent you over the course of our debate were just done for the purpose of trolling you?

That hurts my feelings. Legitimately.
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Drrobotniks
04/30/24 7:18:55 PM
#147:


STEROLIZER posted...
I'm like a kid in a candy shop.
It is genuinely vile and revolting how you act, coming in here trying to slip into the crowd trying to act like you're being supportive, when in reality you contributed the most toxicity to this place, enabled people like tails, mocked neurodivergent people, ans the list goes on, it is disgusting how you're trying to play that off, you are one of the most disingenuous people here and your bootlicking will do jack shit

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STEROLIZER
04/30/24 7:21:21 PM
#148:


Drrobotniks posted...
It is genuinely vile and revolting how you act,

This is how I've acted for the past three years. Its not like I've suddenly adapted this "fandom shill" persono for the purpose of trolling. I've always been a "corporate shill" -- this is the stuff I've been preaching since before Fandom even owned the site.

Hate it all you want, but don't ignore reality and pretend like this isn't how I've always been. I'm not disingenuous. I believe the things I say. If I was disengenous I would have changed my positions at some point. But you can find topics of me going over User Acquisition techniques, and GameFaqs Demographics stats as relate to user growth as far back as the summer of 2021 over on the Hellhole board.

If you hate my views, and me as a person for believing them then like just call me "disgusting" or something. If they actually disgust you then that wouldn't even be trolling. But calling me "disingenuous" is ironically enough actually disingenuous of you given my history of dying on this hill.
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Drrobotniks
04/30/24 7:22:10 PM
#149:


yeah thats right, ignore all the points

disingenuous and disgusting

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