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| Valcion Posts: 364/585 |
I only go to gamefaqs nowadays to read the SRW boards.
Now I don't because 99% of the tards there are elitist assholes. |
| Alastor Posts: 4426/8204 |
Sorry, Colin. Really. It's just... It so pisses me off when I see people attacking such a good person  |
| asdf Posts: 2112/4077 |
Originally posted by Colin He sold the site to CNet before the merger. The merger happened later. Prior to that, the site was self-managed. Going back further, it was sponsored by IGN, but broke off from that. I believe before that, it was self-managed as well.  |
| Cynthia Posts: 2260/5814 |
Um... Kyouji... a little civility/tact, please?
EE: Well, I think he needed outside help since even though he was able to run the site by himself for a long time... it was barely possible. I'm guessing the site was near the breaking point when the merger happened. |
| Emptyeye Posts: 487/869 |
Hey, like I said, I don't blame him for needing and getting outside help, despite what I've said here. I maintain, though, that public relations is not his strong suit, which is probably why he's an administrator as opposed to a PR guy.
BUT BACK TO THE TOPIC AT HAND: I think I'm used to this specific, latest change, at any rate. |
| Alastor Posts: 4418/8204 |
I am sick and tired of your thoughts on GameFAQs management, Emptyeye. There... There is nothing unreasonable about one absurdly devoted person becoming too swamped with work that he just can't continue. Until you work 20-hour days for weeks on end as the sole programmer, administrator, and checker of submitted work on an absurdly popular website, and someone offers to pay you a great deal of money to take the load off your hands while doing nothing except applying superficial changes, easily reversed with simple CSS if you so choose... Then dammit, you have no right to demonize him so. |
| Emptyeye Posts: 484/869 |
Originally posted by Alastor the Stylish Putting something like that in part of The Great GameFAQs Q&A is "him joking around?" (By the way, I apologize for misquoting him slightly; the exact line was "I mean, I'm as much of a part of CNET as anyone else who works here.") If so, I'll just add "sense of humor" to his shortcomings as well. @Colin: While it's very possible he was forced to say those things per his contract (In which case I look like kind of a jackass, but oh well, it won't be the first time), it's also very possible that the contract had nothing to do with him making such proclamations. I guess we'll never know for sure. As a related aside, if what I hear is correct (And again, it's impossible for us to know for sure), he made out very well indeed moneywise with the contract. As yet another fun aside, I found the "My patience has run out; I'm done" message I wrote from late May of '04, right after the GameFAQs/GameSpot board merger. Wow, I was pissed, though not entirely without reason as I read through it again. |
| Skydude Posts: 2096/2607 |
Ah, my bad, actually. It's the CODES that become property of GameFAQs, not the FAQs. I just recall reading something a few days ago after the switch on Contributor Central. I'm not really a major contributor, as I just make a guide for an obscure SNES Gundam strategy game, and that's it, but I go there from time to time, and I noticed that... |
| Alastor Posts: 4407/8204 |
I own the work. It is my property. It is intellectual.
Therefore, by the definitions of intellectual and property, I proclaim the term correct. I don't care about is connotations; the denotations are perfectly accurate. |
| FreeDOS + Posts: 442/1312 |
Originally posted by Alastor the Stylish I'm sorry, but I don't seem to know what that means. In seriousness, it's called your copyrighted work. There is no property to steal or anything like that. |
| Alastor Posts: 4403/8204 |
Nope. It's only hosted there. It's your intellectual property. Hell, they even TELL you to write copyright information in your own name. |
| Skydude Posts: 2043/2607 |
I don't know that they would need to give royalties, though...as the current agreement stands, for example, anything you submit becomes property of GameFAQs, doesn't it? |
| Alastor Posts: 4344/8204 |
Originally posted by Emptyeye... Those kinds of posts are him joking around. I'd have thought the world domination by climbing the cnet ladder thing would've given that away. And really, now, Cnet hasn't changed anything. It's still the same basic interface as it's ever been, just with graphical overhauls that can easily be reversed through the submittable skins, which are growing in number. Cnet doesn't have the authority to make GameFAQs a pay site, either, as they don't own the property hosted there, the contributors do. Though it WOULD kick ass to get royalties, I must admit. (I'm a contributor) |
| Cynthia Posts: 2224/5814 |
Well, you could say that CJayC was put in-between a rock and a hard place, meaning he has to say this stuff even if he doesn't believe it himself. I'm sure he's doing well financially however.  (And given how the site started, he deserves to be in the green at the end of the day.) |
| Skydude Posts: 2007/2607 |
I do like the word esoteric. I don't use it nearly as often as I should, though. Perhaps I'll need to start.
Ask me about the new GameFAQs look in a few months, and THEN I can give you a more accurate reading of whether it makes me seethe. |
| Emptyeye Posts: 482/869 |
I made my feelings about GameFAQs known some two years ago.
Suffice to say: I don't blame CJayC for "selling out" or whatever. What I blame him for is being naive enough to take CNet at their word when they promised they wouldn't change anything, making the same promise to the userbase, and having to backpedal and say "But don't worry, it's only a small change!" on seemingly a monthly basis. He's also a horrible public relations person. What did he say some time afterward to try and ease fears? "Don't worry, I'm a CNet employee as much as anyone else!", AKA the absolute WORST thing you could say--yeah CJayC, and I'm an employee of Jaci Carroll Staffing Services as much as anyone else too, but that doesn't magically give me as much say in their day-to-day operations as anyone else.... Take those comments as you will. As to the design, I don't like it, but whatever. |
| Alastor Posts: 4303/8204 |
I'm surprised you hadn't seen me use it before; it's one of my favorite words 
But, we're getting off topic here! Back to talking about GameFAQs' change |
| Tatrion Posts: 1371/2467 |
Originally posted by Alastor the Stylish Yes. Being understood only by a group; an inside joke. I forgot the exact definition from dictionary.com, but I'll see if I can work it into a conversation and how many people will ask me what the heck that means. You're very articulate Kyouji. |
| Alastor Posts: 4301/8204 |
Originally posted by TatrionIs it esoteric? It's esoteric, isn't it. And Apophis is right. There's no functional difference here... |
| Apophis Posts: 444/734 |
maybe its because i don't use their boards (make this place look like its full of geniuses), but it doesn't seem all that different to me |
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