Like I said hes boasted about being responsible for getting 261 closed and CE going private. He doesnt want to see Gamefaqs thrive. He just wants all the users that have ever wronged him in his mind to suffer.
I did literally this all the time for years and never once got moderated for it.
Unbanning everyone only for them to get rebanned within a day from the play nice rule
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/8/8edb501b.jpg
It's because Stero is a crypto bro who thinks Fandom will hire him as CEO or something if he sucks up hard enough.
he just ducks out.
Doesn't he claim he's some kind of social media marketing guru?
From my experience working with those guys they are very blinkered, dogmatic and stat driven and don't take criticism well.
Nobody on CE gives a flying fuck what is in the best interest of Fandom's future profits, Stero. If we're not part of the future, then this place can burn for all anyone cares. We aren't invested in it as some strange empathy towards the profit margins of corporations. We just want somewhere to shitpost.
And Fandom doesn't give a fuck about you or your suggestions. They look down on you just like they do the rest of us and they'll boot you out some day without a second thought.
Dude, how could you forget illegal warez/cracks/pirated material/etc. under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act IIRC. IP infringement is the one violation which websites as publishers do not have immunity to under Section 230.
However, one of his biggest flaws is that he seems to ignore some of the factoids that people have repeatedly pointed out (e.g. the decline of message boards, as they are not popular with younger generations.)
That, and he appears to assume that he knows more about the ins and outs of monetizing websites than anyone else on these boards due to having a short occupational background in this area.
I know that.Well no one can relate to you, because why should a regular person care if a corporation succeeds? Like ever? They get nothing out of. "The website might get monetized, bloated, and strip away a lot of what they used to like, but they should be thrilled that profits are up!" People don't care when their goddamn employer succeeds a lot of times because they don't reap the benefits. They care even less about a video game website.
Yea. I have no delusions of grandeur. I'm just another random user. But I still support and believe in what they are doing. That's the thing tho, you can still want a platform to succeed, and not expect any personal gain from it.
Like, if you simply want GameFaqs to exist in five years, then I think you should be supportive of Fandom to some extent. Because there is really only two options:
1.GameFaqs evolves and turns a profit
2.GameFaqs shuts down
Sure there might be another sale in there somewhere, but, eventually one or the other has to happen. I see a lot of folks saying that they want GameFaqs to close. That they were perfectly happy with the direction the site was going. They don't want it to succeed. I don't relate to those people.
Well no one can relate to you, because why should a regular person care if a corporation succeeds? Like ever? They get nothing out of. "The website might get monetized, bloated, and strip away a lot of what they used to like, but they should be thrilled that profits are up!" People don't care when their goddamn employer succeeds a lot of times because they don't reap the benefits. They care even less about a video game website.
Something called GameFAQs successfully monetizing does nothing for someone who only liked it because of what it used to be. If you take the menu away from a restaurant and replace it a new one that is cheaper and more casually appealing, sure that's good for the restaurant's profit margins, but a lot of the old patrons only patronized the place because they liked the old menu. They aren't personally invested in the business. If they stop going, they'll simply forget about the restaurant, at best. They aren't going to be excited that it's more profitable.
Well no one can relate to you, because why should a regular person care if a corporation succeeds? Like ever? They get nothing out of. "The website might get monetized, bloated, and strip away a lot of what they used to like, but they should be thrilled that profits are up!" People don't care when their goddamn employer succeeds a lot of times because they don't reap the benefits. They care even less about a video game website.
Something called GameFAQs successfully monetizing does nothing for someone who only liked it because of what it used to be. If you take the menu away from a restaurant and replace it a new one that is cheaper and more casually appealing, sure that's good for the restaurant's profit margins, but a lot of the old patrons only patronized the place because they liked the old menu. They aren't personally invested in the business. If they stop going, they'll simply forget about the restaurant, at best. They aren't going to be excited that it's more profitable. The patrons don't matter to the restaurant, so the restaurant doesn't matter to the patrons.
Wait, how can he not relate to people who want gamefaqs shut down? That's literally what him and the reddit creatures worked towards for fucking years. LolYeah and that too. Literally everyone knew what Tails and those other things were. But it's okay! Stero oopsied when he let the animals take over the zoo! He didn't think it would happen!
STEROLIZER posted...
I would advocated for turning the Karma system into a cryptocurrency based system.
Under 13-year-old banned users? Would violate COPPA to unban them.What if they were banned 13 years ago?
What if they were banned 13 years ago?
is CryptoKarma existed what would its exchange rate to USD be?Tree fiddy
the more karma thats given out (tokens minted) the higher the value of the token.This line proves once and for all that crypto bros absolutely do not understand how any form of currency works.
...but, on that note. I would advocated for turning the Karma system into a cryptocurrency based system. So it basically be a social token, and you earn more of it by positively contributing to the site, and the more people who contribute, the more karma thats given out (tokens minted) the higher the value of the token.
Think of the overheads involved in checking each account lol.
I wonder if STERO realizes that FANDOM isn't even considering his "contributions" and will never take him seriouslyHe's been here long enough, I'd have to hope he's used to nobody taking him seriously.
...how many sub-50 karma users do we have?Enough that the karma requirement and closure of the board are both demonstrably pointless policies to have put in place.
The bottom line here is that you are assuming a lot of behind-the-scenes knowledge that you aren't privy to:Because they will be rich on the crypto-karma!!!
* How much traffic the site actually generates
* How much profit the site actually pulls just from basic low effort ads
* How high or low ganefaqs ranks on fandom's list of assets
* Whether it would even be worth the effort to try and increase profit over just putting in the minimal effort SEO and coasting off the current ad profit, as RV and CNET did.
Fandom isn't implementing anything close to your ideas on their wikis or their main asset sites, what makes you think they're going to start on one of their backwater properties
Unfortunately when it comes to Final Fantasy, the non-fandom wiki I visited didn't seem very goodand for when Fandom wikis are your only choice
No.
Besides the occasional Wrestling or MMA post the only thing I do is talk about GameFaqs while on GameFaqs.
Its the only subject that interest me discussion of GameFaqs curious fall from grace, and its potential rise back to prosperity have pretty much made up the bulk of my community contributions since mid 2020 or so.
I dont even play videogames anymore. The last time I played anything regularly was MK11 from 2019, and into the first half of 2020. I binged the MK1 story mode for a day, and thats the very last time I even fired up a game console.
Literally 7 posts with no reply. Good lord.
You could keep spamming and get banned. That might make your corporate overlords at Fandom three extra cents when people view the topic to laugh about it. Win win imo.
It is possible to respond to multiple people in one post you know. <_<
It is possible to respond to multiple people in one post you know. <_<
It is possible to respond to multiple people in one post you know. <_<
and itll look like the entire thing is a single incomprehensible reply.I'm pretty sure your usual posts do this on their own, so don't worry about it
You could keep spamming and get banned. That might make your corporate overlords at Fandom three extra cents when people view the topic to laugh about it. Win win imo.Yeah right. He for sure has protection from DBread for all the bootlicking he's been doing. Probably for his account and any boards he owns.