Fucking Kotaku

[Thursday Next]

Well played.

[Luftwaffles]

It's a mildly amusing story about a "nerd" getting laid. What's the big deal?

 

 

Oh right, you guys never get laid.

 

I just think it shows the devolution from Kotaku from gaming news into something more along the lines of "dude has sex on Sonic blanket" news.

 

But maybe Kotaku has been like this for a while now, I dunno.

[fuchikoma]

Hey, at least it wasn't another story about someone who got killed over a game console. In that regard, it may be an improvement for Kotaku since it's not painting gamers as killers...

[deanb]

http://chainsawsuit.com/2012/02/28/guess-im-the-best-how-games-made-me-sexy-and-great/

 

heheh

[DocSeuss]

Hahaha.

 

I just got banned for a week.

 

Was in class, forgot to tag a spoiler. In my defense, I said 'man, I'm hearing bad things about the game.' Someone said "what was it?" and I answered. Also, told a dude to suck his own dick elsewhere, after he called someone "monkey spunk."

Edited March 6, 2012 by DocSeuss

[excel_excel]

It was Mass Effect 3 wasn't it. YOU HAD TO SPOIL MASS EFFECT 3.

 

ah yes, you spoiled the ending. BOOOOOOOOOOOO.

Edited March 6, 2012 by excel_excel

[DocSeuss]

In my defense, I was literally asked to spoil. The word spoil was not mentioned, but that is what I was being asked to do.

 

Nah, I shouldn't have.

 

Anywho, the mod who banned me didn't mind my ban evasion and said he thought I was a cool dude (even let me post an apology for the spoiler! ), but the ban had to stay for telling the guy to suck his own dick. I don't mind that. A week's ban and the loss of my star for insulting a dude who insults disabled people? Worth it.

[Strangelove]

Is it just me or is Kotaku getting...better? Not as good as it used to be, but compared to Kotaku at its worst, its far better. Thats how I feel about it right now anyways.

[deanb]

It's maybe just you. Mainly because I don't think most of us read any more to notice if it's getting much better.

[Faiblesse Des Sens]

It's definitely better. Less shit I cringe at, that's for damn sure.

[HoonDynasty]

Chris-Chan pickup artist story aside, has Kotaku gotten any better under Totilo's watch, or is it still trapped behind Johnson and Crecente's wall of suck?

Edited March 11, 2012 by HoonDynasty

[TheRevanchist]

Better is a relative word.

 

Certain things have gotten better. Other things are worse, like the new writers. Fahey and Owen still interact with the community, which is good, as the other editors usually do not (and should not, based upon their writings).

 

I would say that Kotaku is definitely different, but not necessarily improved to a point where Bash is not writing articles about Japanese girls and their panties. He likes that too much, despite the audience really wanting more about games and less about fetish.

[Faiblesse Des Sens]

He likes that too much, despite the audience really wanting more about games and less about fetish.

 

At least Kotaku Core gets rid of that, and the program style of blogging makes it easier than ever to ignore.

[TheRevanchist]

Too true. Kotaku Core is a good tool. I wish they promoted it more (like a big f'n button on the front page that says "FILTER OUT THE WORTHLESS SHIT"). The casual reader has little clues about how to navigate the site and use the tools available.

[deanb]

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/03/11/tech/web/online-comments-sxsw/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

 

So this was on Slashdot, an interview with Nick Denton (head of Gawker) talking about commenting on his sites.

 

He said that commenting on his own sites (which he's seen make reporters cry) has gotten so bad that he doesn't engage.

"I don't like going into the comments. ... For every two comments that are interesting -- even if they're critical, you want to engage with them -- there will be eight that are off-topic or just toxic," he said.

Can't imagine why

 

Denton said his sites are planning to post some stories that allow only a hand-picked, pre-approved group of people to comment on them.

Sounds fun.

[Faiblesse Des Sens]

I don't see how that's different than the star system. o_0

 

Anyways, what can you do to not have dumb ass people comment? Gawker handles it better than youtube, but the problem is that people are fucking morons in general. Denton can't change that.

[TheRevanchist]

Denton is a dick. He is responsible for the sites turning to shit. His redesign. His lack of leadership. His cutting of the moderators.

 

What a putz.

[fuchikoma]

Rev nailed it. For what it's worth, Kotaku kept the "old" site online much longer than some other Gawkers. I think some of the editors even made comments that they understood how people hated the redesign. In the end though, they're all under Nick Denton - who I've also linked to (in this thread?) as sending out a directive to get not just pageviews, but unique pageviews, through provocative and controversial articles. In other words, we can't put all the blame for the trolling and geekbaiting on the writers of these sites, because they're just trying to get paid by doing what the big boss tells them to. It sucks and I'm glad to be mostly rid of that cluster of sites (though I still drop in on Jalopnik once in a while. My destar/permaban seems limited to Kotaku.)

[Faiblesse Des Sens]

Denton is a dick. He is responsible for the sites turning to shit. His redesign. His lack of leadership. His cutting of the moderators.

 

What a putz.

 

I'm pretty sure even the writers think he's a dick. I think that reflects both wonderfully and horribly in the various sites The re-design is great though.

[madbassman39]

Jalopnik is the only gawker site I still visit regularly, but its becoming less so now that Autoblog has stepped up their game.

[HoonDynasty]

Jalopnik's weathered the past year rather well, as has io9; they're the only Gawker blogs I enjoy reading these days. The blog format makes them somewhat readable, but Nick the Dick's still sticking to the god-awful default version. Either he's really in love with his own shit, or whatever idiot that coded it spent more time on finding a lawyer to draft an iron-clad contract than making it work. Either way, it ain't goin' away.

[FredEffinChopin]

http://edition.cnn.c....html?hpt=hp_t2

 

So this was on Slashdot, an interview with Nick Denton (head of Gawker) talking about commenting on his sites.

 

He said that commenting on his own sites (which he's seen make reporters cry) has gotten so bad that he doesn't engage.

"I don't like going into the comments. ... For every two comments that are interesting -- even if they're critical, you want to engage with them -- there will be eight that are off-topic or just toxic," he said.

Can't imagine why

 

Denton said his sites are planning to post some stories that allow only a hand-picked, pre-approved group of people to comment on them.

Sounds fun.

 

Translation:

 

I will work tirelessly until all you can see on our sites is yes-men.

[Dee]

Your mom goes to college.

[Ozymandias]

Perhaps this might be a tad late but I've been lurking Kotaku for about four years. I never registered because I found (and still do) the star commenting system to be asinine and counterproductive...especially when star commenters would bully nonstarred commenters, or my favorite when they would promote trolls only to strike them down, dismissing them with a token comment: "Ignorant troll. Don't feed the troll," etc. But my least favorite person was Joel. He sucked. Lately Owen has replaced him. I'm in the minority that likes Bashcraft--his randomness spices up Kotaku. Anyhow I miss old commenters who had insightful things to say like MasterDex, or deanb (yes the admin), Komrade Kayce, DukeofPwn, etc. A lot of them have left. But they were the people that made Kotaku the site I had to frantically check 6-8 times a day. Now it's not the same. But I have found this site with promises of greatness.

[Strangelove]

Yeah, Joel kind of sucked.. A lot.

 

And I think ive said it before, but Bashcraft is a good guy for the most part. He can write too....but the subjects he writes about are awful. Thats the problem. If it was up to me, he'd be moved somewhere else, but I realize they need all that Otaku/weaboo stuff. Its a necessary evil.