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Gamespot users fight back with TAGS
Niero \| 9:49 AM on 12.04.2007	41 comments

Following last night's announcement there are already 28 PAGES of users calling bullshit on their PR response I noticed something hilarious on their sidebar: apparently BULLSHIT was the most frequently used tag to describe their story. Other popular ones were lies, conspiracy, damage control, and corruption. A little gray one that subtly says CNET SUCKS is probably my favorite of the pack.

I pray to God that somebody on their podcast or web cast breaks script and tells it like it is.

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38 comments | showing # 1 to 38

Kryptinite

lol, man gamespot is fucked.

BlindsideDork

But...but that would be honest!

MaxVest

It's not so much the liars as the lies that bother me.

-D-

Classic.

Maurice Tan

Haha, so tags will be locked from tomorrow onwards as well?

niakori

What a stormy little tag cloud.

Excel-2011

The damage control is a lies.

Snaileb

lol @ Pew

I can't believe they disabled user reviews. Niero should've touched ground on that too.

Bob Muir

This CONSPIRACY that CNET SUCKS is not LIES from LIARS full of CORRUPTION, but a natural fallout from the BULLSHIT DAMAGE CONTROL that CORPORATE is attempting to pass off as truth after the CONTROVERSY over the EIDOS complaint that caused EDITORIAL DIRECTOR JEFF GERSTMANN to be FIRED over his KANE & LYNCH review. Needless to say, the response is BS and "JEFF GERTSMANN" is the wrong way to spell JEFF GERSTMANN.

Did I get every tag in?

VWGTI

I can't believe they disabled user reviews.

You've gotta be fucking kidding me man.

itemforty

Hilarious. Absolutely hilarious.

BFeld13

FIGHT THE POWER!!!!

Samit Sarkar

Yeah, I saw that when I checked out the PR response earlier. Hilarity.

MaxVest

@Necros: I believe that was word-for-word an actual comment to the site.

aborto thefetus

Things certainly have gone to hell for Gamespot. Well, even more so. I always thought Gamestop was a crappy website.

masterledz

Guess you could say we've found what the "G-spot" is all about.

Epic.

Also, clitoris.

Niero

Haha that's crazy. I didn't know they had disabled user reviews. I'm not a regular, I just occasionally lurk. They're probably worried that a digital riot will destroy all user game scores since they already did it to kayne & lynch

B-Radicate

People need to stop posting anything on the site and instead just stop visiting the site entirely and giving companies like Eidos who have CLEARLY paid for advertisements any reason to spin the high traffic into more positive PR bullshit.

"They must LOVE K&L, I mean, come on... they keep visiting articles about it, right?" - Eidos PR Lead in near future

Niero

Haha Ron has a screenshot of the disabled user comments:

http://www.destructoid.com/blogs/Ron++Workmeng/cashwh0re-kain-and-lynch-video-review--56931.phtml

Cowzilla3

Man, it's so srange how messed up this truly is.

Snaileb

Wow I guess Ron is already on top of it. If there was a digital riot I'd definitely want Workman or some type of Destructoid entity helming the masses.

Digital riot!

atheistium

hahah omfg, look at them all :O

brad drac

I grant this eleven rofflecoptors out of ten.

BS3 Owner

First Joystiq ( H8ers )...

Then IGN ( Ass CREED )...

Now Gamespot ( Reviews for $ )...

Have gotten their bookmarks taken off my Apple!

Who's NEXT?

king3vbo

gamespot is getting fuhked over because of this... I LOVES IT

...ive always hated gamespot

Barcode

First the cake was a lie...

razerangel

why don't they just say "ok you caught us with Eidos' penis in our gaping mouths!"? it will make this all a little less painful for everyone invovled?

vexed alex

I'm actually worried about the Gamespot staff who are caught in the crossfire of this crap. Is anyone going to listen to their podcast? Just to see what the guys say?

masterledz

lol @ Barcode

Once again, I blame communism. It's always communism.

Snaileb

razerangel made me laaaaaugh..

wardrox

wee need to get Gamewh0re listed in that box. NOW

Danmartigan

the internet is a lie!

IvoryShipping

Haha, that's awesome.

Sharpless

I suddenly believe that the internet has the power to destroy GameSpot. Concentrate all fire on that web site! Try and draw their fire away from the cruisers! That thing's operational!

SPIDER PIG

thats some funny a)s stuff there

Clockwork

Gamespot can't recover from this, the tags sealed the deal.

AgentMOO

Of course they can delete tags... What really needs to happen is legal actions to fix the fucked up video game review scene. This is the same thing our country went through with the Payola scandal and mainstream media hasn't touched the issue yet. Someone get on the horn to CNN.

Guagloves

If u guys want to hear about what went down with Jeff, listen to 12/4's HotSpot. They clear it up quite a bit.

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