Current Events > Best wishes Fandom, but I don't want my contribs on here anymore. So I did this.

(+) Yeah! (+)

So what's your plan for actually getting fresh blood on an ad riddled site?

1. Mobile App
2. Partnershio with game devs to provide promo codes & beta tests in exchange for pre-registration/installs
3. Social Media Integration, and game streaming
4. Influencer Marketing
5. Exclusive Video Guides
6. Ad Campaigns Paid User Aquisition
7. Retention via push notifications and membership rewards program
8. Paid Extroverted Community Managers

You're tolerable when you're not talking about your obsession.

Problem is, that's pretty much all you do talk about these days.

And then you come in acting like you're just one of the boys. Acting like you like and respect the same people who you called things I can't say here.

You don't get to praise the destruction of this site and get to pal around the users of this site. That's not how this works.

Don't want to keep derailing this topic so I'll end with this.

Every bad thing Fandom does? Has your seal of approval on it.

Social boards get shut down? You wanted it.

All the boards get shut down? You wanted it.

Anyone who has their device ruined because they didn't have the good sense to use a adblocker? You wanted it ("Fandom has to make money somehow").

And when this site gets stripped to it bare essentials and gets turned into a tax write-off?

Don't complain, because it's what you asked for.

Ridiculous. All of this is ridiculous.

so yeah i created a safe haven for the worst users CE has ever seen,

but I just ignored them, I didnt actually support them is a horrible defense of what you did.

Youre calling me lazy? This half-assed defense of your own actions is lazy.

tc did you not sign up for lue on that account? it is old enough to have access unless you just didn't sign up and closed your account that did. i had one other account that had access aside from this one but i lost it to cold storage and didn't remember the sign up email i used for it

This dude is legitimately like this tho

Like for other people, i think theyd have already been written off. But he is actually legit with the way he thinks, which is absurd and honestly deserves to be dunked on by the entire board.

What are you personally gaining by Fandom making money?

Not why I created it

Look man, I feel your frustration for watching a familiar place youve loved and enjoyed for so long change course and become a little less familiar. But this change is in an attempt to appeal to new (more modern) users change to something that has gone unchanged for so long can be scary.

But part of loving and respecting a platform that has provided you with constant years of joy is wanting it to succeed and thrive, and wanting younger generations to also experience the benefits of such an awesome website like GaneFaqs.

In short, I think we should want to see the site live on, even tho we may have finally outgrown it. But removing content isnt going to help that. If Fandom can attract new users to keep the site afloat, those are going to be users that arent going to have the benefits of enjoying your guides.

Ultimately, its just one less thing to keep them here, and ultimately less content hurts the platform and makes it harder for fandom to dig GameFaqs out of the grave that we all ultimately are responsible for digging by refusing to evolve with the times and push for modernization.

I guess you need to ask yourself a question:
Would I rather GameFaqs suceed or fail after Im gone?

Ha, there's a name I haven't seen for many years. Yep, I had LUE access but at some point I was user level -3 (account pending closure). Obviously I chickened out of closing my account. However at that time I lost LUE access.

As my theme in this topic seems to be, hope you're keeping as well matey. We've seen a lot on this site.

you literally had a banner up on the subreddit that placed the blame for Gamefaqs' decline solely on SBAllen taking over, which is delusional, and you typed up a paragraphs long primer on how to contact admins in order for people to whine to them about "unfair" moderations. you absolutely created that subreddit to give people who are habitually incapable of following the ToU a way to harass the admins of this site.

you typed up a paragraphs long primer on how to contact admins in order for people to whine to them about "unfair" moderations. you absolutely created that subreddit to give people who are habitually incapable of following the ToU a way to harass the admins of this site.

pretty sure that would be illegal

granted no one here can even afford a lawyer to sue them ove rit

uh yea?

very interesting edit.

I originally said someones name whose name I dont want to say cuz then hell start stalking me and going all crazy

who the fuck is this dude suggesting major tech company advertising campaigns as a legitimate way for gamefaqs to operate? no one is dumping millions of dollars into gamefaqs advertising, we have always been a niche community and gamefaqs is much harder to monetize than the kinda places that would use that boilerplate tech 'strategy'.

fandom could just not obliterate the loyal community of thousands of daily active users and continue getting traffic via guides like gamefaqs has always done. maybe also bring back contests because there was a time that those drove tons of traffic to the front page

He cant see these posts or this board. You back pedaled because you realized the blame isnt just on tails. Its you too.

Ha, there's a name I haven't seen for many years. Yep, I had LUE access but at some point I was user level -3 (account pending closure). Obviously I chickened out of closing my account. However at that time I lost LUE access.

As my theme in this topic seems to be, hope you're keeping as well matey. We've seen a lot on this site.

sounds like a death match (sub) kinda thing, writing manifestos

yes you can, there are ways to do it

He cant see these posts or this board. You back pedaled because you realized the blame isnt just on tails. Its you too.

so you think hes stalking the archive site just waiting for gamefaqs user STEROLIZER to say things about him

Yea. That was the thing that came about as a result of me banning those folks.

I reckon that the current userbase is not large or profitable enough to sustain the hand that feeds it.

Some of their stuff I DO agree with however, the 1500 word papers are really unnecessary. 150 words or less, please

fandom isn't about operating one site and sustaining their business model that way. gamefaqs is probably in the middle or higher end of traffic for all the sites they own, as they own wiki for the most niche shit imaginable. their gimmick is taking something over and turning it into absolute shit with invasive ads and such

Yea. That was the thing that came about as a result of me banning those folks.

I agree with zero of it. Literally zero.

maybe also bring back contests because there was a time that those drove tons of traffic to the front page

So it didn't take long to submit all of those deletion TC?

Hey man, you want me to get the hell out of this topic (please say yes) so you can have it back?

Cuz if you say yes Im going to respect it. Then I have the reason i need to not respond.

good to see you still around! and that's fuckin' brutal that you would lose access like that when your account wasn't even closed. i am assuming you tried to get it back at some point and the administration didn't go for it?

lue is basically as dead as it has been for close to a decade, still 4ish pages most of the time

edit: 5 pages now but the user base has definitely continued to shrink

Some matches still discussed to this day.

no, that came about because you let those folks go off on unhinged rants and coordinated campaigns of harassment and reinforcing of each others' false victimization complexes for months and months without any interest in actually properly moderating your sub at all or holding any of them to the Reddit content policy, or holding yourself to the Reddit moderator code of conduct, and then i stumbled across the sub and saw the veritable slew of pathetic whiny incel bullshit that had been allowed to fester there, all of which were violations of various parts of the Reddit content policy, so i went through and reported everything i saw. when Reddit admins had to step in and start actually cleaning up the sub because not you nor any of the other mods at the time were willing to, all the chuds suddenly found themselves being held accountable for their actions, which they didn't like, so they went off and created their own subreddit and abandoned yours. that's what happened. you didn't start updating rules or banning people or actually doing your fucking duties as moderator of the sub until you were afraid that Reddit admins were going to shut it down because you weren't moderating it properly, once things started getting rightfully reported. don't try and act like it was some attempt at a selfless act by you that actually led to any change on that sub.

But the Reddit Admins didnt do anything. They deleted a few posts thats it.

Hey man, you want me to get the hell out of this topic (please say yes) so you can have it back?

Cuz if you say yes Im going to respect it. Then I have the reason i need to not respond.

This guy just straight up doesn't take responsibility for anything, does he?

Can't even leave a fucking topic without putting the onus on someones else.

https://i.imgur.com/v8j1awE.png

I'm not planning on leaving the forums, but I figured it's best to remove my work from a company that doesn't respect it.

Hundreds of thousands, maybe even millions of views over the last 21 years but I'm old enough now not to care. I figured that's not a GameFAQs user, so it's all deleted.

I know nobody really cares about some old FAQs being deleted, but I've had some fun on this site.
I used to be a moderator, tried to be personable and also antagonised a lot of my fellow mods. I still apologise for that fuckup I did when I spoiled something.
I was on the front page as a prolific contributor in the cgi days.
I was one of the first to experience private boards.
I had LUE access until I went to close my account.
I've met a few folks from the site too. I sold a phone to another 313er, I met a young lady, and had a fellow mod stay over. He ate a lot.

What does it mean? Absolutely fuck all. I'll still hang around but it's not quite the same it once was. I hope that the new Fandom team can perhaps do what nobody's ever done and give us old folks a little bit of love.

Rant over.

dude, i got the message notifications to my inbox for every action the admins took. and there were a lot. post deletions and suspensions/temporary bans of users.

Go away STEROLIZER. Everyone else just ignore him.

I respect it.

I like how Fandom slowly killing us has made is appreciate each other more and come together

Shit, I haven't said this yet and it's overdue - thanks to all the folks who respect my opinion and have said so.