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Letum · 07-26-2007, 09:48 AM

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Originally Posted by RadarX

I found it more ironic that Snark's lameass attempt to flame a fansite ended up in a discussion of gay bars.

Snark how much do you hate this community really? To crack on an actual fansite? These aren't the commercial guys like Zam, WarCry...hell I'd even almost put LFG in commercial now based on the traffic he does. These are people that do it because they love the game.

This is probably one of the saddest threads I've read in a long time not involving men discussing their balls.

I think someone hurt Radar's feelings.

Laodaron · 07-26-2007, 10:48 AM

He always gets hit feelings hurt. I've learned to tune out most of his emo ramblings.

Faabio · 07-26-2007, 03:07 PM

I think I may go cut myself later

Snark · 07-26-2007, 03:18 PM

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Originally Posted by RadarX

I found it more ironic that Snark's lameass attempt to flame a fansite ended up in a discussion of gay bars.

Snark how much do you hate this community really? To crack on an actual fansite? These aren't the commercial guys like Zam, WarCry...hell I'd even almost put LFG in commercial now based on the traffic he does. These are people that do it because they love the game.

This is probably one of the saddest threads I've read in a long time not involving men discussing their balls.

Do I need to quote myself? I think this will be a first for me...

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I appreciate sites going out on a limb and trying to really engage the community, but this is a sad attempt and one you are far under qualified to host.

It's one thing to be a fansite, and quite another to get a post on eq2players about "most influential mage of all time" which garnered a whopping ~60 votes? With the runner up being a fucking battle wizard with a glorious rate a retard thread?

It invited to be made fun of. It begged for it. And here we are. QQ More in the eternal words of khalan!!!

Letum · 07-26-2007, 05:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Faabio

I think I may go cut myself later

Good call.

LFG · 07-26-2007, 06:16 PM

I think the lesson learned here for all fan sites is not to do contests that involve player or guild rankings, especially concerning the high end game.

Look at the history of EQ2Players regarding announcements that suggest one guild is best world wide, or got WW1st on an epic encounter. It has caused their forums to explode with unhappiness and drama every time.

High end players each have their opinions regarding what guilds and players are best in game, and become easily offended when anyone suggests a ranking that disagrees with their own.

So I think it is a huge mistake for EQ2Players and fan sites to rank players or guilds, UNLESS the purpose of doing that is to CAUSE drama and controversy, thus increasing traffic and user counts.

In the case of EQ2Battlemage.com, can anyone say they are worse off for the contest they sponsored? I score them as better off, actually. They got a ton of traffic and notoriety, and the controversy spawned by their contest put them on the map fan site-wise.

As the former leaders of the KKK and US Nazi parties used to claim, sometimes any publicity, even bad, is good publicity. PLEASE don't think I'm suggesting EQ2Battlemage.com is like or has anything to do with those hate organizations lol, they do not. I'm just stating that for the purpose of suggesting Arani ran a contest that ended up serving the purpose she intended, which was to increase traffic and users on her site. She probably learned a lot from the experience as well.

So is she a dummy? I don't think so.

Faabio · 07-26-2007, 06:25 PM

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Originally Posted by LFG

So is she a dummy? I think so.

That's not very nice LFG...

But I do agree

Letum · 07-26-2007, 06:46 PM

Word.

Simonsays · 07-26-2007, 07:14 PM

I'm the original battlemage anyway... to bad soe took my parry items away when I told them they didn't work right.

RadarX · 07-27-2007, 09:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Laodaron

He always gets hit feelings hurt. I've learned to tune out most of his emo ramblings.

I really haven't been able to hear you recently Lao...your head has been rammed too far up LFG's ass. Do you still play by the way?

And no Snarks post doesn't upset me, I'm just baffled how people that "care so much about the game" can take a big steaming crap on a fan site.

I can admit the contest was probably a bad idea because it steps on epeens.