Quantcast is extremely unreliable. Once, I used it as a barometer of how many hits my website was getting: it said 2,000. We actually had over 200,000, based off ISP tracking.

Idk. There's plenty of dumb comments on the site though. :D dun-dun-dun-bsh

Yeah I like the steady improvements. In time it'll get up there but right now I think Dtoid is great.

Although ever since dtoid usvervoice feedback thing was put up I anxiously await all the cool updates they plan which make me wish it changed faster in some aspects.

-Image Viewer definitely needs to be updated.
-New comment system needs to be here like yesterday.

@Garison
It can gather personal data such as the names you enter in data fields, or the demographics of who the PC has registered.

That, and Quantcast lies/is inaccurate.

@Jesus
I'll continue.

Here's a press release. I won't tell you how I feel about it
::throws up copy pasta::

I'd be really curious as to where they get their stats regarding the demographics... I don't remember entering race or education level anywhere on signing up - so what can this demographic information be based on?? (and I don't recall any demographic info resting on my PC that could be accessed on visiting a site).

Regarding Destructoid, the only thing I will say is that I do think that the site is strongly skewed towards a male demographic in terms of the plethora of "hot chick" graphics on the front page (often having nothing at all to do with the story) and even the use of "fapping" instead of voting. A quick look at the forums often shows threads regarding "hottest females", "hot asian chicks" "bad sex" and other topics that initially can seem a bit sexist and not really game related...but definitely "guy" related. Once females join the site and start actually participating, there isn't much in the way of sexism, harassment, or anything of that nature - but initially the site does give a bit of an impression of being a "boys club". I don't know that this would actually be "fixable" ... and in many ways it shouldn't be "fixed". The community is what it is - and what it is, is pretty great.

More ways to "improve" Dtoid by copying Kotaku:

1. Stop showing the editors' faces and mentioning their personal lives. This is a sign of SERIOUS JOURNALISM. Don't have the editors show up in videos unless they're doing SERIOUS INTERVIEWS.
2. Actually, for that matter, stop posting videos unless they're official trailers provided by publishers. Anything else will distract from SERIOUS NEWS.
3. Get rid of Cblogs and Forums. These are not the SERIOUS PEOPLE that belong on a proper news site.

Follow these steps, and Dtoid can start racking up the readers. That will increase ad revenue and prestige. Then the site can be bought out by a media conglomerate so that Niero can have a nice retirement fund. After all, that's the goal of all websites...right?

My god I hate whenever Brian Ashcraft starts talking about his fucking kid.