Fucking Kotaku

[Strangelove]

Just to get this out the way: Yes, Brida, ex-member of this forum and it's predecessor, is Patricia Hernandez of Kotaku. Which is yes kinda funny because iirc she was the one that made this thread on the old forum.

 

 

Eww, now it all makes complete sense.

Though I dont remember her posting such awful things here as she does on Kotaku now. She is seriously ridiculous.

 

With all the info she knows about how many of us detest the website, youd think she would have tried to change it and make it better, but she's actually made it even worse. I think she is a bigger troll than Luke ever was. I just really dont like the stuff she posts on there. Its all bait.

Edited April 16, 2013 by Strangelove

[TheRevanchist]

I still read Owen's posts and I do like Tina's stuff.  Other than that, I can't say anything is really fun to read and debate about anymore.

 

Although, I do enjoy "Dismissing" posts by people that disagree with me.  I did that to one guy yesterday there.  He was an obvious Dodger fan.

[deanb]

So has anyone here besides me actually STOPPED going to kotaku because of how shitty it is?

I've not actively read it for years, and typically avoid reading it when linked.  I also hear stuff of it mentioned now and then such as twitter or todays PAR article. Strangeloves post provides context to an earlier complaint I'd seen on twitter. 

Also turns out my housemates BF reads it now n then, suggested it during the PS4 announcement.

 

"How would you know anything of Kotaku, I've never heard you mention reading it"

*loads up Kotakuites Steam group*

"Oh"

 

 

As for her wanting to change it from the inside, she's never really struck me for that type. Certainly the type where if they're giving her money she'll gladly write for them, and she causes such controversy, and thus hits, I'm sure they're happy to keep paying her.

[Waldorf and Statler]

I still actively read it because it's a blog format. I don't have no hidden agenda. I go there for news/updates on games and developers and anime/otaku culture articles. The rest of them I read to either pass time or to race and make a silly comment since I'm an attention whore.

[Alex Heat]

I'm basically there for the same reason W&S is, except without the commenting part.  I switched over to Destructoid as my main source of game news though and will check Kotaku once every few days (usually on Moneysaver days).

[Waldorf and Statler]

Hey.

 

 

That's Mr. Wally to you.

[TheMightyEthan]

I only read it if I'm specifically linked to an article, which isn't very often.

[Mr. GOH!]

She made this thread on the old forum? So when this forum migrates, will I be offered a job at Kotaku?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?

Edited April 17, 2013 by Mr. GOH!

[Waldorf and Statler]

I'm pretty sure the next person they'll offer a job to is Seuss. He tends to be the center of attention when he writes walls of text. And is extremely cocky. Coincidentally he'd be my favorite author because I laugh at the reactions he gets off people.

Edited April 18, 2013 by Waldorf And Statler

[Baconrath]

My Gawker account is still in pre-Facebook limbo. :[

[Faiblesse Des Sens]

What do you mean? FB isn't required.

[Waldorf and Statler]

Actually there was a time Gawker was getting rid of regular accounts and forced you to link them via Facebook/Google. That's part of the reason why I stopped posting for a bit, my real name started showing up due to some error and I was getting threats.

[Faiblesse Des Sens]

...so FB still wasn't required. This is why you get a burner account if you want to be a douchebag on the internet.

[Waldorf and Statler]

Except the name WASN'T supposed to show up. And either FB or a proper google account was required. It was done as a security measure near the Gawker hacking.

[Faiblesse Des Sens]

You were a dick and linked your Facebook and you got harassed for it. Sounds alright to me. Hopefully it taught you a lesson about just linking your FB to everything.

[Waldorf and Statler]

Why do you even assume I was a dick? Did you ever consider that maybe people just see my screen name, which I barely make jokes over, and saw the idea to harass me because they were offended? Stop making assumptions and while you're at it, get off that horse it's a bit too tall if you're here talking about being a dick.

[Faiblesse Des Sens]

Wait, so you're suddenly not a troll on Kotaku?

I'm not sure what high horse I'm on as I never claimed I wasn't an asshole, too. I'm just better at not letting it leak out of where I post.

[UnstableArk]

Gentlemen, take a shot. We might as well make a drinking game over this.

Edited April 19, 2013 by UnstableArk

[Waldorf and Statler]

.... WHEN did I claim I was a troll? I make no more troll comments than the average user.  I might make a Jesus joke here or there, but they comprise about 5% of my total posts. And if you had asked "Wally WHY did these people start threatening you" instead of instantly assuming I was trolling and got my just desserts you would've heard

 

"Why FDS. Thank you for asking. You see what happened is that an easily offended Christian or two saw my name and demanded I change it. I told them I was causing no harm and that my comments for the most part don't even have to do with the fact I'm Jesus, and when I do them they aren't mean-spirited they're just meant to be like a gimmick account comment. Most people are fine with it and understand I'm doing no harm, but these specific ones started researching my name due to the facebook glitch and threatened to inform my conservative university that I was making fun of Christian values. I stopped commenting because I wanted it to boil down and remove the ease of finding me online via a google search. Once the problem was fixed I came back."

 

But you didn't. I thought we were past making assumptions in this forum?

[NeoStarr]

There's only one way to solve a dispute on the internet.

 

1V1 ME BLACK OPS BRO!

[Mr. GOH!]

Yeah, DocSeuss is hilarious. And his weird, personal rants are doubly so. 

[Eleven]

I'm going to put this here since there was discussion before on the site's comment system.

 

I was just reading lifehacker and accidentally clicked on a comment, and whoa, it popped up the conversation. I think it wasn't like this before when they changed to the new gawker layout.

 

Honestly, I love it. It only shows a few posts per comment, and everything will just show when you click on it. Makes it easier to skip useless posts like "What the hell is a lightning cable?" on a post about the lightning cable and it's alternatives. I wish sites I read had a similar system, as well as Amazon reviews. Like for example Ars Technica's comment system is the plain old one, making it very difficult to track conversations. The Verge's comment system's threads go every which way which makes it a pain to read and having to scroll endlessly to find helpful comments.

 

Opinions on how it is currently? Forgive me if this is how it was when they first switched. I didn't click on them before.

Edited May 4, 2013 by eleven

[Waldorf and Statler]

No this was NOT how it was before it was switched. In fact Kinja has seen three adaptations:

 

1. You could only see two discussions per "page". As in you saw two discussions, each in its own column, with their replies. Only the first couple showed up. To see more discussions you were forced to click on arrows left and right to load the next two and so on. This was especially annoying because basically if you weren't part of the first 4-6 [but let's be honest 2] discussions nobody would really ever see your comment. Most people would just move on to the next article.

 

2. Similar to what we have today and what we had in the past, many comments/discussions in two columns format but it didn't have a pop-up appear. It didn't last for too long.

 

3. Pop-ups appear.

 

 

What's really funny is that the commenting system has gone through the same iterations like 3 times now. In the previous system it also started out with some bullshit thing similar to the first point above where you could only see a few comments at a time. This caused a LOT of people to leave the site, especially since authors had total control on who wasn't greyed out. They then switched it to the two columns format which honestly it's one of the best on any site I've seen.

[Waldorf and Statler]

I swear I meet people claiming I'm a troll and using insults instead of arguments every day. Today's victim, the woman who can't see people have differing opinions so instantly groups them all as trolls.

 

http://kotaku.com/which-is-why-swtor-received-very-high-scores-upon-its-r-493243201

[Faiblesse Des Sens]

You look pretty bad there. Why even get involved when it gets like that?