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Smallville
04/19/24 9:35:21 AM
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or on this site, in general, since the new rules went into effect?

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Puglia77
04/19/24 9:50:47 AM
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No I have not noticed less than 68,116 people on this board.

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SquantoZ
04/19/24 9:51:33 AM
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Ceejus is rapturing users

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texanfan27
04/19/24 9:56:18 AM
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They were voted off the island.

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GenXer
04/19/24 9:58:31 AM
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I don't notice any difference.
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thisworld
04/19/24 10:11:48 AM
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Yeah we have fewer people now. We went from 68,116 to what? A mere 100? 200?

GenXer posted...
I don't notice any difference.
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theAteam
04/19/24 10:12:27 AM
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No but it felt like every single topic was about the same thing for a few days there.

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Sun_Xiao
04/19/24 10:14:45 AM
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Yep, NCAA Football and Basketball are almost dead. Not to mention that Gamefaqs killed Politics that may be another reason why this site is not heavy traffic anymore.
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Pikachuchupika
04/19/24 10:15:24 AM
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God damnit, not Saxon. Noooooo
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Prestoff
04/19/24 10:20:11 AM
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I'm seeing a lot more usernames I never saw before.

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thisworld
04/19/24 10:24:55 AM
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ImAMarvel posted...
Seriously? We lost all these CEmen already?
Afraid so. Iirc at least 4 got hit after 4/15. Kick_that_Block, Skiggie, Kinny100, and Smogoon. The rest like Smackems were in purgatory when Darth Toast and Quiv Palpatine came to attack us. I didn't make that pic btw, topic's here:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/400-current-events/80750035
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rynobot
04/19/24 10:26:03 AM
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Yeah, and I'm very scared.

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deoxxys
04/19/24 10:26:21 AM
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thisworld posted...
Yeah we have fewer people now. We went from 68,116 to what? A mere 100? 200?

From another topic
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/7/7c5a721d.jpg
I recognize a lot of these names sad face *whisper*migrate to poll of the day

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s0nicfan
04/19/24 10:28:21 AM
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Don't worry, DToast promised us that he has experiments in the works that will dramatically increase traffic. Not here. Never again here, but supposedly somewhere.

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Smallville
04/19/24 10:51:34 AM
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s0nicfan posted...
Don't worry, DToast promised us that he has experiments in the works that will dramatically increase traffic. Not here. Never again here, but supposedly somewhere.
So if you have ever been in purg? You can't use this board or something?

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Doe
04/19/24 10:52:47 AM
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deoxxys posted...
I recognize a lot of these names sad face

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Evening_Dragon
04/19/24 10:58:57 AM
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Aw what, slackers? Naw man, where's that link to the reinstatement form

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s0nicfan
04/19/24 11:25:39 AM
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Smallville posted...
So if you have ever been in purg? You can't use this board or something?

The board is locked now. Only accounts not in purge who visited CE in the last year retained access. No new accounts will ever be able to visit CE, nor old accounts that haven't visited recently, nor accounts that were in purg at the time of the lock. Who you see in CE today is everyone who will ever be on CE going forward.

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Smallville
04/19/24 12:11:21 PM
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s0nicfan posted...
The board is locked now. Only accounts not in purge who visited CE in the last year retained access. No new accounts will ever be able to visit CE, nor old accounts that haven't visited recently, nor accounts that were in purg at the time of the lock. Who you see in CE today is everyone who will ever be on CE going forward.
Oh you think they will get rid of board, but why?

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s0nicfan
04/19/24 12:12:53 PM
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Smallville posted...
Oh you think they will get rid of board, but why?

Lots of speculation, but the short version is everyone expects Fandom is aiming to purge the social boards entirely because all they care about are the guides and Q&A sections. This is about gradual containment so that the entire community doesn't just leave all at once.

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Smallville
04/19/24 12:26:46 PM
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s0nicfan posted...
Lots of speculation, but the short version is everyone expects Fandom is aiming to purge the social boards entirely because all they care about are the guides and Q&A sections. This is about gradual containment so that the entire community doesn't just leave all at once.
Oh you believe that though? Interesting

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Prestoff
04/19/24 12:28:06 PM
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I mean, IMDB literally purged all their boards all at once without any warning whatsoever. Their traffic went down, but I think they're making serious dough through ad revenue alone, which is most likely fandoms goal. Many people in the hollywood/acting business basically treat it like Linkedin now.

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Smallville
04/19/24 12:29:12 PM
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Prestoff posted...
I mean, IMDB literally purged all their boards all at once without any warning whatsoever. Their traffic went down, but I think they're making serious dough through ad revenue alone, which is most likely fandoms goal. Many people in the hollywood/acting business basically treat it like Linkedin now.
Imdb boards must have mods though

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Doe
04/19/24 12:50:35 PM
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It must've sucked so bad for the IMDb communities.

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Smallville
04/19/24 12:53:33 PM
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Doe posted...
It must've sucked so bad for the IMDb communities.
Yeah I guess so, so the owners of this site and now imdb are the same?

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Doe
04/19/24 12:54:54 PM
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IMDb is apparently owned by Amazon.

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absolutebuffoon
04/19/24 12:56:17 PM
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thisworld posted...
Afraid so. Iirc at least 4 got hit after 4/15. Kick_that_Block, Skiggie, Kinny100, and Smogoon. The rest like Smackems were in purgatory when Darth Toast and Quiv Palpatine came to attack us. I didn't make that pic btw, topic's here:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/400-current-events/80750035
I've heard the people who were in purgatory when it happened can request to be let back in though

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kirbymuncher
04/19/24 12:58:46 PM
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Smallville posted...
Oh you believe that though? Interesting
it seems reasonable to me. gamefaqs is, at its core, a gaming site. just look at the name. fandom also runs a bunch of gaming wikis, essentially the modern day competitor to the plaintext FAQs of old

something like CE is an unwanted growth attached on somehow. provides them no benefit and probably a significant amount of trouble

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CassandraCroft
04/19/24 1:00:41 PM
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Prestoff posted...
I'm seeing a lot more usernames I never saw before.

Same here.

I too am seeing names I have never seen before and I have been coming here for 21 months.

I think the traffic has gone up slightly since the restrictions were put in place.

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Prestoff
04/19/24 1:11:32 PM
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Doe posted...
It must've sucked so bad for the IMDb communities.

Most of us moved to letterboxd.

Smallville posted...
Imdb boards must have mods though

It was inconsistent though. The mod team was much too small for how huge the website was and because of that a lot of toxic shit went unnoticed. They relied heavily on automated moderation, which was easily abusable. I miss the IMDB boards as I had a lot of amazing discussion on them, especially unpopular movies, but I recognized just how toxic most of the popular boards were. A lot of them were borderline Alex Jones level of conspiracy bullshit like Holocaust and Armenian genocide denialism.

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TheLiarParadox
04/19/24 1:15:25 PM
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thisworld posted...
Yeah we have fewer people now. We went from 68,116 to what? A mere 100? 200?

From another topic
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/7/7c5a721d.jpg
That's a mixed bag if I've ever seen one.

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Hyena_Of_Ice
04/20/24 1:18:30 AM
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thisworld posted...
Yeah we have fewer people now. We went from 68,116 to what? A mere 100? 200?

From another topic
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/7/7c5a721d.jpg

Holy fucking shit!

Just wait until Sunday, the casualty list will be massive by then due to all of the drunkposts and bored weekend-poster trolls (some of them posted today as well, but that shit really picks up on Saturday)

s0nicfan posted...
Lots of speculation, but the short version is everyone expects Fandom is aiming to purge the social boards entirely because all they care about are the guides and Q&A sections. This is about gradual containment so that the entire community doesn't just leave all at once.

I'd like to clarify that everyone expects Fandom to either do that or shut down all non-gaming related social boards. So special interest boards like Electronics and Card Games might be spared, but not the Food or Poetry/Essays boards.
Alternatively, that they're planning to do the latter, but in the end, won't have the patience to accomplish it, so eventually they'll just say "fuck it!" and nuke all of the social boards (I originally believed the former, but now believe the latter. The Fandom admins and execs have already faced exponentially more pushback from the community and a lack of the mods "knowing how to do their job without being told" than they anticipated.)
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Kajagogo
04/20/24 1:24:49 AM
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Prestoff posted...
I mean, IMDB literally purged all their boards all at once without any warning whatsoever. Their traffic went down, but I think they're making serious dough through ad revenue alone, which is most likely fandoms goal. Many people in the hollywood/acting business basically treat it like Linkedin now.

No there, was like a week or two warning, iirc. It didn't just happen, I know that.

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Hyena_Of_Ice
04/20/24 1:31:40 AM
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Smallville posted...
Oh you believe that though? Interesting

Fandom admin Timmy's posts have been pretty clear that Fandom wants all discussion on the Gamefaqs boards to be "relevant to videogames and game-related discussion"
I guess I need to post those excerpts from Timmy's two posts again:

while we understand the passion surrounding political discussions, we believe it is essential to maintain a focus on gaming-related content

While we recognize the value of healthy debate and diverse perspectives, such discussions must remain respectful and relevant to our gaming-focused platform.

this decision aligns with how we operate other parts of our platform, and how we want GameFAQs to be positioned in broad gaming discourse.

.... political discussion does not make sense as a core driver of conversations on a site dedicated to video games and gameplay.
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tripleh213
04/20/24 1:53:06 AM
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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/f/fac2da0d.jpg

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CassandraCroft
04/20/24 1:54:36 AM
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thisworld posted...
Yeah we have fewer people now. We went from 68,116 to what? A mere 100? 200?

From another topic
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/7/7c5a721d.jpg

Just noticed but why is there no mention of Questionmarktarius in that list of usernames?

Oh and pikakaeru has made a topic here: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/3-poll-of-the-day/80750031 crying about how their actions dropped them below the 50 karma threshold needed to be able to post here.

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kirbymuncher
04/20/24 8:39:41 AM
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CassandraCroft posted...
Oh and pikakaeru has made a topic here:
very first reply is someone complaining potd should have gotten restricted instead

the duality of man

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Jagr_68
04/20/24 8:48:37 AM
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thisworld posted...
Yeah we have fewer people now. We went from 68,116 to what? A mere 100? 200?

From another topic
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/7/7c5a721d.jpg

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/b/b8cbb7f2.jpg

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BlueKat
04/20/24 8:51:51 AM
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thisworld posted...
Yeah we have fewer people now. We went from 68,116 to what? A mere 100? 200?

From another topic
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/7/7c5a721d.jpg
A couple of those are definitely still around

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