Shadow of Cerberus
Public => EVE World News => Thema gestartet von: Aura am September 18, 2013, 09:01:39 Vormittag
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Hand in the cookie jar
Here's something that's fun strictly from a meta perspective.
themittani.com has been banned from posting links to their articles on Reddit. The reason? They were rather publicly instructing their people to up-vote TMDC articles posted there in every sub-section for games they cover. That is a blatant violation of Reddit's rules. Even more so, I'm told by people who have knowledge of this that TMDC was doing it in the most obviously detectable way possible... a way so obvious that the evidence itself points to four TMDC accounts that got automatically banned for gaming the vote by the Reddit system that watches for this sort of thing.
The thing that makes this most amusing from a meta level is that I'm sure there's more than one Goon out there asking him- or herself "what's the problem?" After all, Goons in EVE have been gaming votes for years now. From giving The Mittani his 10000+ vote victory in CSM7 to taking control of the top two "true stories of EVE", Goons have never been shy about throwing their weight around in the meta-game any more than they are within the game itself.
Only this time they've been caught with their hand in the cookie jar, by someone that doesn't appreciate the practice.
The fact that it happened on Reddit, virtual home of a community-born EVE corp that opposes Goonswarm, just adds to the meta amusement. One blog post this week even joked "Booda sends his regards."
Anyway, damage control is in full swing at TMDC, with multiple sources telling me only 2% of new visitors come to the site from Reddit. No word on how many of those visitors are returning, nor any word about how much ad revenue may be lost through the loss of references. Damage control might insist on calling this a minor hit. But is a gaming "media empire" named after an EVE player going to be a go-to site for new MMOs without the ability to direct Redditors to the new sections? I guess we'll see.
In the meantime, I have to admit I appreciate the karmic justice on display...
Source: Hand in the cookie jar (http://jestertrek.blogspot.com/2013/09/hand-in-cookie-jar.html)