It's official! The Examiner.com is taking over Destructoid.

The Examiner "about mes" are all the same generic statements , with no intro posts, 0 "thoughts" outside of a direct copy and pasting of said Examiner article, or an actual discussion with the Destructoid community via the comments section.

Between flydream copy-pasting ignworld.com and this, we may have a 4:1 spam ratio on the c-blogs soon. Should we just rename them to "blogs in a blog from another blog you have blogs?"

WOW

After more matlockery, your twitter AUTO links your articles to stumbleupon's toolbar, garnering you MORE cheap hits for the unsuspecting follower.

I bow to the master of internet solicitation. You should transcribe all these e-secrets in blood on a rusty tome, and sell it to aspiring bloggers for $1,000 a page. Be sure to attach a digg, reddit, n4g, stumble, delicious, mixx, and popurls links though. We all know social networks speak louder than words.

I'm all for cutting slack on new posters, because those are 10-20 something guys/gals who just really love games, and maybe forgot to read the rules before posting.

The Examiner ring is the work of professionals, seeking to mold Destructoid's Community Blog system into another "social networking exploitation", like the ones I mentioned in my previous comment. Further matlockery shows that The Examiner actively guages your proficiency (how good are you at exploiting) with social sites such as digg before becoming an accepted writer. I find this pretty absurd, Chrono, considering these "writers" could have let their words speak for themselves, but decided to join in the "get rich quick" mentality, and trick the horde of community members who thought their posts were legit, only to find out "wait a minute...these are copied and pasted, without even changing the format structure to suit the new blog medium".

Quit the copy pasta shit or GTFO. Tell all your "Examiner.com" friends the same thing applies to them also.