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MGS, meet Crave, our corporate overlords. They are like every evil, greedy corporation in all of those proto-punk sci-fi movies...only not from the future.
Crave is much, MUCH worse than Bolt. Bolt make a few slight changes here and there, but that was about it. Crave has done EVERYTHING it can to get as much ad revenue as possible. More ads and bigger ads on the main page, ads at the bottom of reviews, ads IN the reviews, those annoying ads that highlight certain words and then bring up searches related to those words, fullscreen ads, loud ads, spam ads, background ads. You name it, they made ads for it. They even made the switch from black to the annoying white you see now because "it was better for the ad revenue."I_Hate_MGS said:Also, wtf is this Crave crap? This is s*** is more annoying than bolt!
Longo_2_guns said:those annoying ads that highlight certain words and then bring up searches related to those words
I_Hate_MGS said:Ugh I didn't know SK and Unknown were back, k leaving again
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TheUnknown said:As long as we can get plenty of old posters back, and a few new decent guys, then I think its much better this way. A small tight-knit core, with meaningful posts, and no flaming. We can get some energy pumping back in to these forums.
I_Hate_MGS said:Ugh I didn't know SK and Unknown were back, k leaving again
Jkjk
UrbanMasque said:Is there anything WE can do - to get rid of crave (aside from shutting down the forum)?
Trippy said:Ultimately the GR community doesn't factor into the corporate scheme. We come to the site directly and don't click ads. We generate no revenue for the site. We do generate original content, but that will lead to ads being placed in between forum posts (expect this sometime in the future). If we leave, we just equal a lower direct visits count.
Bretimus_v2 said:Trippy said:Ultimately the GR community doesn't factor into the corporate scheme. We come to the site directly and don't click ads. We generate no revenue for the site. We do generate original content, but that will lead to ads being placed in between forum posts (expect this sometime in the future). If we leave, we just equal a lower direct visits count.
Yay, I generate little value! I love the mechanics of internet commerce (ads, traffic, etc.).
I guess the only GR members (read: traitors) helping the Crave/Gorilla Nation warmachine are people who write reviews and get featured in Vox Pop.