Nintendo's Witch
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We can leave the thread people, it's over. Seriously tho, get away from social media and enjoy life.
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Chris Dring Leaves Twitter due to harassment
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We can leave the thread people, it's over. Seriously tho, get away from social media and enjoy life.
Punished Miku
Gold Member
I know it's still games and people have always shit posted. But I just randomly was browsing one from 2016 and it was a lot more civil and detailed. And then noticed M MatPiscatella posting in there and everyone was just chill and nice to him.Just look at the bickering in here for example:
so resistance has now sold 2 million
You should've tried Co-op. That's what's GOW is all about. 1st time i played it, i played in Co-op. The bomb man, the bomb.... I intend to. I'm not 'done' with the game, and I'll be going back to it. Pity that one of my closest X360-owning friends (who also has Gears) doesn't have XBL Gold. :(www.neogaf.com
Anyway, whatever.
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Woopah
Member
And threads would get into the double digits just for one week of Japan sales. Would be great to get back to that again!
This why I find it weird that people keep saying he has some kind of agenda. Some people think he spins PlayStation numbers to make them positive, others think he hides any numbers that make Xbox looks negative, and others think he has something against Nintendo, even thought he's a pretty big Nintendo fan. If you listen to people on Twitter you'd think Chris has a hidden agenda against all three console manufacturers.
Hopefully just a one-off, since he included all three in the UK chart for March. Either way, I don't think he intentionally hid the exact YoY declines for Switch and Xbox, especially since they were better than the the decline for PS5.
thicc_girls_are_teh_best
Member
It wasn't him; I know who it was and where it's from but I'm not gonna say anything.
Folks can just get a bit too wild sometimes, I'll say
Anyway, unfortunate Dring was harassed to this point. Disagreements shouldn't lead to personal attacks and hate. Hopefully he comes back sometime in the near future; maybe locking his tweets to only let certain people reply would be a good way of getting rid of the toxic folks.
Goalus
Member
Sony shill in his quoted screenshot. That's how they behave.
thicc_girls_are_teh_best
Member
I'm curious what Nintendo fans would be attacking Dring for on Twitter. Actually, I'm surprised there are even that many Nintendo fanatics on Twitter. Seems like they'd still be a few gens behind on Tumblr or MySpace.
I'm just joking, Nintendo fanatics. Don't harass me too
That comment wasn't in Dring's Twitter replies and came after he vacated his Twitter account.
It is definitely some kind of comment, tho.
Next Generation regularly mentioned sales; they were kind of like a GI.biz/Digital Foundry/insert-other-professional-gaming-website-here before those things existed.
I think they were the only magazine back in the day with that type of focus regularly, though. And I don't know if they published outside of the United States. Well, Famitsu also would report sales, but just for the Japanese market.
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Kdad
Member
Ah yes, I remember checking in on Twitter during the Vietnam war. Different times. We all had groovy, free, rainbow checkmarks.Nah, that's so 1960s, like calling X, Twitter
Edgelord79
Gold Member
What’s the point of posting in a social media platform if you are not going to be social. The whole point of Twitter if you are not a news organization is to engage with your followers. Else it’s just another spot for links.just don't read replies
That’s kind of a flippant response to be fair.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Gameplay Gods Bless
Member
That level of vitriol and salt because he posted sales stats?
That same vitriol over sales is found here, daily.
Less data is bad for everyone, this is not a good thing.
cormack12
Gold Member
If you're on twitter to share data then just share it. What type of conversation is there to be had? Post and lock it down. Its always been a one to many publishing platform. You are publishing information centrally to lots of random interested parties. It was never meant to be a platform to start discussing with your followers, some people have millions of them. It's also only ever used as console war bait. Plus Dring is just as guilty as stoking fires with inflammatory comments dressed up as benign observations.
People are addicted to the replies, pats on the backs and sycophantic praise. There's an easy way to manage it if you're the publisher but it comes at the cost of removing all the fake adulation.
People are addicted to the replies, pats on the backs and sycophantic praise. There's an easy way to manage it if you're the publisher but it comes at the cost of removing all the fake adulation.
Lions Gate
Member
Woopah
Member
He was on Twitter to interact with people. For "a one to many publishing platform", he can just use Gamesindustry.biz.
He gets harassed by fanboys of all three platforms.
DragoonKain
Neighbours from Hell
Grown men are allowing an army of 11 year olds to drive them off a platform. They can do whatever they want, but they gotta realize most of these people are kids. Don't read the comments. When it comes to social media, ignorance is bliss. If you don't see the criticism, it can't affect you.
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
But he was a news organization..........
ChorizoPicozo
Member
i think he left because of Play Station fanboys.
he said this Gen Sony sucks or soemhting like that
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Gi.biz is a news organization,this Twitter feed was his own personal outlet.
The Mad Draklor
Member
cormack12
Gold Member
Twitter was meant to bypass the formality of content management systems or the lead times on editor sign off for breaking or first of type news. Or to give a personal insight into what celebrities were up to in their spare time. It was never meant to be a fireside chat platform for anyone of note. The lines are blurred because of influencers needing to do this when starting out or those trying to build offshoot communities.
How does someone like Taylor Swift interacts with 95m followers? Or anyone with even more than 1200 daily active followers? He was there to get direct pats on the back, and see the likes shoot up from having access to privileged data (e.g. optaJOE). Like most of twitter.
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
Loomy
Thinks Microaggressions are Real
Twitter posts get traction if people engage with it. Engaging with tweets include likes, sharing, and replying. Limiting or turning that off is akin to screaming the numbers to himself in his room. I'm sure he'll keep publishing the information on Gameindustry.biz. Hopefully they at least link to those on their twitter account.
As for what the platform was meant to be, the "Replies" feature has been a part of Twitter for almost 20 years now. Was added shortly after it launched. Before celebrities & influencers were even on the platform.
Also, In 2007/2008 most "influencers' were still operating on their own personal blogs. Instagram is what propelled them to where they are today and started the "social media influencer" thing.
StereoVsn
Member
Twitter/X morons and trolls strike again.
Personally I like seeing sales data as it helps to get an understanding of the gaming market. It’s too bad that folks that give out this info for free have to deal with this shit.
And yeah, Social Media is a fucking curse to society at large.
Personally I like seeing sales data as it helps to get an understanding of the gaming market. It’s too bad that folks that give out this info for free have to deal with this shit.
And yeah, Social Media is a fucking curse to society at large.
kazuyamishima
Member
It was a mixture between the Xbox tax people and his comments on Mario wonder and princess peach that dragged a lot of Xbox and Nintendo fans after him .
Too bad because he gave a lot of insight about UK
Too bad because he gave a lot of insight about UK
cormack12
Gold Member
Engagement = likes. Yes, that's my point. If people are interested in the data, post it and people will still follow you. There are view metrics now. You either care about posting the data Iike the snippets/comparisons he did, or you care more about the 'engagement'. This also doesn't really cover the video interviews he did as well where he was throwing round comments crafted to antagonise one fanbase or another.
Replies were a novelty in the hope that your favourite celeb or someone may notice you in a crowd. Over time replies were meant to provide access and responses from brands and customer support. You might as well say they created DMs so we could all privately converse with Lady Gaga.
I'm mainly talking about how Twitter developed, ever since Stephen Fry tweeted from the airport was it? It developed into a celeb/sports personality/artist access platform. No one really cares about following John who goes the match every week, except his mates. Sometimes you get a few odd personalities that hit it big for a couple of years or parody accounts or you come across sub communities built on follow for follow. There are very few, and I mean very few actual branching conversations that happen from any big push accounts.
I don't know what the last point is or what it's relevance is tbh. I'm not saying influencers were a thing back in 2008.
Either way, it doesn't really matter much. Guy has closed his account. I'm sure he will be back, they all return in the end. I'm tired and it's almost midnight so
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Unknown Soldier
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Twatter is trash and I wish it would die already because Elon Musk has like 5 other companies which are actually important and he spends all his time fucking around on Twatter
Fuck Twatter
Fuck Twatter
Solarstrike
Gold Member
ISP's are soon going to be given the right by governments to fine people who harass, stalk, or otherwise name-call, hack, cheat, steal, imposter others on the internet. It's all on the way because some idiots get away with shit.
Note: I only use Twitter when i'm on the shitter
Note: I only use Twitter when i'm on the shitter
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Loomy
Thinks Microaggressions are Real
I think we're agreeing on this. The issue is that as long as he's sharing these from his personal account on Twitter, he's open himself up to the type assholes who get upset and make death threats when CoD nerfs guns.Engagement = likes. Yes, that's my point. If people are interested in the data, post it and people will still follow you. There are view metrics now. You either care about posting the data Iike the snippets/comparisons he did, or you care more about the 'engagement'. This also doesn't really cover the video interviews he did as well where he was throwing round comments crafted to antagonise one fanbase or another.
Replies were a novelty in the hope that your favourite celeb or someone may notice you in a crowd. Over time replies were meant to provide access and responses from brands and customer support. You might as well say they created DMs so we could all privately converse with Lady Gaga.
I'm mainly talking about how Twitter developed, ever since Stephen Fry tweeted from the airport was it? It developed into a celeb/sports personality/artist access platform. No one really cares about following John who goes the match every week, except his mates. Sometimes you get a few odd personalities that hit it big for a couple of years or parody accounts or you come across sub communities built on follow for follow. There are very few, and I mean very few actual branching conversations that happen from any big push accounts.
I don't know what the last point is or what it's relevance is tbh. I'm not saying influencers were a thing back in 2008.
Either way, it doesn't really matter much. Guy has closed his account. I'm sure he will be back, they all return in the end. I'm tired and it's almost midnight so
It's why I hope Gi.Biz starts sharing links to those articles.
Loomy
Thinks Microaggressions are Real
It's fucking frustrating. I'm glad SpaceX is managing with however little attention he's giving it.
Where I struggle with Twitter is that, in spite of all the crap on it, it is the closest to a global communications platform we've ever had. People could get their message out to everyone from anywhere.
Downside is that we got a bunch of useless crap, but the upside is that we got people making sure the world knew what was happening on the ground during conflicts before journalists could get there. Or whistleblowers who could share important information they'd otherwise have no avenue to share.
Twitter could be so much more, and I think it still can - or something like it can be - just not with Musk at the helm.
Edgelord79
Gold Member
What outlet? Ah nm I see he is with GI? If so ya he should just put out the news and shut off then. Don’t bother with comments.
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Unknown?
Member
No, I wasn't. Most people didn't know unless it was reported in mainstream news or hardcore enough to read stuff like that.
That's the point, it gets around better now with Twitter/X, so you can put feelers out for how something is doing and by hiding the numbers you don't really know and reality gets drowned out by fanboy fodder.
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ArtHands
Thinks buying more servers can fix a bad patch
This is not shocking that there’s some sort of harassment hit list here from certain fanboys. I have seen people here trying to discredit them.
Mochizuki for his Sony temporary halting PSVR2 manufacturing news. Mat for his tweets over console hardware spending. zhuge for claiming FF7 Rebirth selling less than FF7 Remake.
Mochizuki for his Sony temporary halting PSVR2 manufacturing news. Mat for his tweets over console hardware spending. zhuge for claiming FF7 Rebirth selling less than FF7 Remake.
yazenov
Member
This is somewhat off topic, but I disagree. Twitter was horrible before Elon took over Twitter. At least now both the good and bad opinions can be heard from either sides.
Twitter 1.0 was like an echo chamber (kind of like Reeeeee) where only 1 side of the argument is visible, and if you disagree with the narrative, your opinion can't be seen because you'd be banned or shadow banned without even knowing.
I know that Twitter is trash regardless, but at least it's better post Elon acquisition.
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drganon
Member
Real subtle there, art.
Heisenberg007
Gold Journalism
CLW
Member
Yeah keep telling yourself that buddy.
GreatnessRD
Member
I never understood how people allow randoms on the internet get them in their feelings. I don't mean to sound insensitive, but I just can't wrap my head around it. Getting worked up about some clown posting shit they wouldn't say in real life because they'll get their block knocked the fuck off.
Shadowstar39
Member
Moderation is censorhip... There is a site that is for that it's called Reeee. The same picks who want to CE sort valve for a curator and having user reviews. Free speech for all unless it promotes violence , starts a riot or is targeted towards kids. Elon is doing everything right. It was a shit hole and everyone was censored before he took over.
TheGrat1
Member
MonkeyClaw36
Member
That level of vitriol and salt because he posted sales stats?
Jez Corden and TimDog are nursing a semi.
Mr Reasonable
Completely Unreasonable
Moderation request here please.
Thick Thighs Save Lives
Gold Member
He's back!
OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
Bitch. Anyone who claims they are getting bullied online is a bitch. Back in my day(lol) We were bullied to our faces for whatever reason. We just took to drinking like real men to deal with it.
RagnarokIV
Member
Fuck I ain't reading all that shit sucka's crying attention plea
Mofo leaves the internet because people are mean then returns with a fucken KING JAMES EDITION Bible essay
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