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LinuxWorld Senior Editorial Staff Resigns
sachmet writes "In light of the interview with Fuat Kirccali, James Turner has announced on his blog the immediate resignation of the LinuxWorld senior editorial staff." From the post: "We regret that Sys-Con Media has
been unable to apply a standard of journalistic ethics that we can comfortably operate
under. We feel that recent articles published with the consent of Sys-Con Media fail to
meet minimum generally accepted journalistic codes, and because the management of
Sys-Con Media has failed to acknowledge that the articles are by all informed judgment
ethically unsupportable, we have decided we must find other avenues for our work."
esd
Not too difficult, I suspect.
The Downfall of GameFAQs.com
by CyricZ, GameFAQs.com Forum Moderator
On November 5th, 1995, Jeff "CJayC" Veasey started what would eventually become GameFAQs.com. The site grew quickly, and in November of 1999 the message boards were added. They soon overtook the rest of the site, becoming one of the most popular venues for children and adults to post at. I was quickly selected to be a moderator.
GameFAQs IRC server went public on June 21, 1999. But a couple of years later it was gone, due to administrator abuse. Wroth was known as a tyrant to freedom, continually pushing for limited speech and running a strict dictatorship over the various IRC channels.
Freedom-loving individuals such as Wise Old Gamer, Vegeth and Dettronen Spy spoke up against such abuses. They were quickly struck down, banned from the channels and subjected to a life of horror on the GameFAQs.com message boards. Eventually this tragedy became too great, and like all tyrants in the past, fell with a mighty thud. The GameFAQs.com IRC server was eliminiated.
Things would only get worse during the summer of 2001. There were major battles between the Final Fantasy VII and Star Ocean: the Second Story message boards. Users were banned for simply opining about their favorite game. Never before had such tyrannical and hateful action been seen at an online message board. The moderators were completely restricting the freedom of the users. The users were nothing but eyes meant to look at the advertisements, to generate revenue. They were no longer humans, but merely tools of the site.
It saddens me to have been a part of the horrid and hellish moderating that happened during those awful periods. I wish to repent for the contempt I showed to freedom and liberty. I apologize to all those users who I deprived of their basic rights. I am sorry.