"I work at NeoGAF for a living..."

[Tesseract]

I don't know about threads, but I noticed a lot "Nvidia shill"-type people during the 970 vram controversy... For their sake I'd hope they're getting paid to be incessantly defending the company's shady practices like that.

they got secret .5gvram unlock codes

 

[Deleted member 80556]

I don't know about threads, but I noticed a lot "Nvidia shill"-type people during the 970 vram controversy... For their sake I'd hope they're getting paid to be incessantly defending the company's shady practices like that.

You underestimate the power of defense forces. People don't joke when they say there's a defence force for everything here. We have Russia defend force (in the Ukraine threads) and mass surveillance-NSA defence force.

 

[Stereogatari]

Yes, nothing says power quite like being tasked with keeping discussions civil on an online message board.

That tone of post fits your avatar perfectly .

 

[Wormdundee]

Are you suggesting that some threads are paid product placements? Do you have any threads as examples?

I'm not really going to be bothered to go look for them, but I've been here long enough to see several threads deleted and a decent number of users banned because it was discovered they were shills.

I think it's reasonable to assume there are more that were good enough to not be uncovered.

It's certainly not rampant though.

 

[kamineko]

Lurkgaf is real. People ask me to make threads here.

Fortunately, I can't

 

[Timeaisis]

Question for Evilore and/or mods

When you tell people you run/mod at GAF, what percent of people actually know what NeoGAF is? Obviously, we all know it's popularity with hardcore gamers, but I wonder how many average people are familiar with the site (or have at least heard of it).

 

[Naked Snake]

Lurkgaf is real. People ask me to make threads here.

Fortunately, I can't

I've been a member for as long as the forum (in its various incarnations) existed, yet my nephew has been trying to become a member for just as long without success. I'm not sure what he's doing wrong but he can't get his registration attempts to go through the iron wall.

 

[LosDaddie]

Are you suggesting that some threads are paid product placements? Do you have any threads as examples?

I thought this was pretty obvious for the Gaming side, no? That side definitely has its....preferences. And it's not like this problem is exclusive to GAF.

 

[Exr]

I mean, it's pretty popular. I guess.

Interesting. Not as much as I thought given the way Evilore talks. Still nice though.

 

[Aeana]

I thought this was pretty obvious for the Gaming side, no? That side definitely has its....preferences. And it's not like this problem is exclusive to GAF.

That's annoying, honestly. We take that kind of thing very seriously. There's a major difference between being paid shills/viral marketers and an annoying fanboy, and the former group is absolutely not tolerated (and the latter group is usually banned eventually too, usually in review threads).

 

[kamineko]

I've been a member for as long as the forum (in its various incarnations) existed, yet my nephew has been trying to become a member for just as long without success. I'm not sure what he's doing wrong but he can't get his registration attempts to go through the iron wall.

There's definitely a mystique to it. I've watched folks get banned & I just think "holy shit how could you do that? It's too hard to get in to clown like that"

 

[strobogo]

I'm not really going to be bothered to go look for them, but I've been here long enough to see several threads deleted and a decent number of users banned because it was discovered they were shills.

I think it's reasonable to assume there are more that were good enough to not be uncovered.

It's certainly not rampant though.

I thought the implication was more about mods, myself.

 

[DoktorEvil]

Lurkgaf is real. People ask me to make threads here.
Fortunately, I can't

If you have to ask how to make a thread, you'll never figure it out.

Spoiler

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=428780

 

[Lunar15]

I'm not really going to be bothered to go look for them, but I've been here long enough to see several threads deleted and a decent number of users banned because it was discovered they were shills.

I think it's reasonable to assume there are more that were good enough to not be uncovered.

It's certainly not rampant though.

It's happened twice here in my five year stay, as far as I can remember. You get some annoying fanboys who can't shut it off, but actual paid shills are extraordinarily rare.

Also, anyone worried that GAF is one big paid advertisement for games has never gone into gaming much. I think gaming side tears down more games than it builds up. Hell, we had a documentary where industry professionals expressed distaste for the site, and there was even a joke in a game about how NeoGAF will destroy your game for doing something wrong.

 

[kamineko]

If you have to ask how to make a thread, you'll never figure it out.

Spoiler

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=428780

Hm? No, I know why I can't. It's the policy.

 

[Thorgal]

Interesting. Not as much as I thought given the way Evilore talks. Still nice though.

Out of how many though .?

considering that that total could go up to 100.000 different sites ( number pulled from between my cheeks ) being in the top 2000 is still scoring high in the ranking .

 

[EviLore]

Interesting. Not as much as I thought given the way Evilore talks

??? What?

 

[esms]

Hm? No, I know why I can't. It's the policy.

You're six posts away from posting your wild threads.

 

[Dennis]

How much RAM does the GAF server have now?

And how much does it cost per month to buy the bandwidth required for a site of this size?

 

[kamineko]

You're six posts away from posting your wild threads.

shhhh. my lurker friends might see.

 

[manzoman96]

You're six posts away from posting your wild threads.

you're almost there! you can do it! we believe in you

 

[DoktorEvil]

shhhh. my lurker friends might see.

5 posts away.

 

[charlequin]

Question for Evilore and/or mods

When you tell people you run/mod at GAF

when i what now

 

[valeo]

Whoever thinks mods are getting paid were likely born after the year 2000.

If you haven't moderated a message board full of knob-ends and you were born in the 1980's, you are likely an outlier.

 

[SilentRacoon]

I'm surprised. Isn't that quite a bit of free work, then?

Yeah those nasty unethical mods, how dare they devalue the position by doing the work for free.

 

[vatstep]

I want NeoGAF achievements. At least hire someone to gamify this shit.

 

[Thorgal]

Whoever thinks mods are getting paid were likely born after the year 2000.

If you haven't moderated a message board full of knob-ends and you were born in the 1980's, you are likely an outlier.

welp , i am an outlier .

 

[Dennis]

Whoever thinks mods are getting paid were likely born after the year 2000.

Being a mod is like an unpaid internship that never ends.

 

[Lunar15]

Being a mod is like an unpaid internship that never ends.

But think of the experience they're gaining!

 

[Floridian]

Whoever thinks mods are getting paid were likely born after the year 2000.

If you haven't moderated a message board full of knob-ends and you were born in the 1980's, you are likely an outlier.

The only thing online i've moderated were twitch chats. It wasn't too bad.

 

[Dennis]

But think of the experience they're gaining!

♪ Started from the bottom and now I am still here

 

[FUME5]

Yeah, aim for the stars OP.

 

[EviLore]

Out of how many though .?

considering that that total could go up to 100.000 different sites ( number pulled from between my cheeks ) being in the top 2000 is still scoring high in the ranking .

http://www.internetlivestats.com/total-number-of-websites/

 

[Thorgal]

I want NeoGAF achievements. At least hire someone to gamify this shit.

Neogaf gold achievement : Get banned 5 times without getting permed .

 

[injurai]

when i what now

charlequin
Loving Husband. Secret Moderator. Caring Octopus.
(Today, 07:13 PM)

 

[Thorgal]

http://www.internetlivestats.com/total-number-of-websites/

Yeah , i knew i was being EXTREMELY conservative with that estimation .

 

[charlequin]

Neogaf gold achievement : Get banned 5 times without getting permed .

Lot of people with this achievement.

 

[Beloved]

Gaf is weird because it's incredibly popular but at the same time is like the internet's best kept secret. I know so many avid gamers that have no clue what NeoGAF is. Hell I'd never heard of it until a couple of years ago.

 

[Regret Upon Approval]

Those Alexa rankings are pretty cool.
A bunch of stuff is paywalled or whatever but the stuff that is there is neat enough.

I have no idea what a "chiragchirag78" is but it is the second biggest search term driving traffic to here.
Number one is the site name itself, third is "downsampling".
Fifth is "dying light pc performance"

"xboxrepublika.com" is the most related site.
Can I be coy and claim this is evidence that Xbox runs this site and not Sony as people sometimes state or is it a terrible joke? My feelings can handle it.

School is the majority for site access and the mobile site consists just over 1% of site usage, whereas desktop variant comprises the rest.

 

[strobogo]

Lot of people with this achievement.

Who is that one dude banned 13 times and not perm'd?

 

[Tesseract]

seriousness, how far back is gaf archived?

 

[Floridian]

Neogaf gold achievement : Get banned 5 times without getting permed .

How about posting on GAF for 10 years without getting a ban.

 

[Dennis]

Neogaf gold achievement : Get banned 5 times without getting permed .

Platinum achievement: Be made a mod after being perm banned - Crushed

Silver achievement: Be made a mod while banned - EatChildren

 

[Sch1sm]

??? What?

Probs this:

The site has a closed registration policy, not an open one, so those numbers you're comparing are apples to oranges. Millions of people use NeoGAF every month and it's one of the largest websites in the world.

In comparison to the graph, that is.

 

[lordfuzzybutt]

♪ Started from the bottom and now I am still here

This fucking post made me lol in the dead middle of the night.

There goes my attempt to sleep. Work is 5 hours away.

Screw you and your music note mate.

 

[NobleGundam]

You fool it's for the power!!!!

This. And soon. The world..

 

[Tesseract]

Platinum achievement: Be made a mod after being permed

i'm pretty sure that's happened, was mentioned in a thread like a month ago. can't remember who.

 

[charlequin]

Who is that one dude banned 13 times and not perm'd?

More than one.

 

[EviLore]

Those Alexa rankings are pretty cool.
A bunch of stuff is paywalled or whatever but the stuff that is there is neat enough.

I have no idea what a "chiragchirag78" is but it is the second biggest search term driving traffic to here.
Number one is the site name itself, third is "downsampling".
Fifth is "dying light pc performance"

"xboxrepublika.com" is the most related site.
Can I be coy and claim this is evidence that Xbox runs this site and not Sony as people sometimes state or is it a terrible joke? My feelings can handle it.

School is the majority for site access and the mobile site consists just over 1% of site usage, whereas desktop variant comprises the rest.

Alexa is one of the best comparative metrics for site popularity, but only between popular websites and other popular websites (unpopular websites can be artificially skewed in alexa rank very easily), and not at all for any absolute metrics. Ignore anything it says about actual traffic numbers, demographics, etc., because they don't have access to any of that information.

 

[Dennis]

i'm pretty sure that's happened, was mentioned in a thread like a month ago. can't remember who.

It was Crushed. I edited my post. And EatChildren was banned at the time he ascended.