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    The bots are bugging, who honestly uses them over the actual sites? I visit Kotaku a lot and it's a great source of news but using bots to constantly spam its news to improve Google rankings is totally ridiculous and has made me lose a significant amount of respect for Wraggster.

    This seemingly profit driven way of running this site, placing advertising and revenue above the users, is entirely unacceptable and seems to fly against the principles of the original board which from what I have gathered was a tight community of Dreamcast enthusiasts.

    I can't believe I'm actually considering deserting this forum for good. "A little downhill" has turned to "Outright freefall" in the last few months and this is the penultimate straw. If we drop in quality even a tiny bit more then I'll be gone.

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    Quote Originally Posted by quzar View Post
    Two words: Google rank.
    Google rank means nothing if this place is merely an infestation of RSS posters.

    A shell of what it once was. Its like trading morality for prestige.

    I respect few of our leaders on this site anymore.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gdf View Post
    I can't believe I'm actually considering deserting this forum for good. "A little downhill" has turned to "Outright freefall" in the last few months and this is the penultimate straw. If we drop in quality even a tiny bit more then I'll be gone.
    What? Noooo!!!
    (If you are to leave, at least keep in touch with me )

    Most of the people who visited are more or less gone (Gold Line, Bullhead, etc). I'll probably be gone soon, too.

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    It's funny to see you people complaining that the site is NOW going to crap. I was saying the same thing before ya'll joined when the PSP section was added and most of the news became advertisements for playasia/divineo/etc.

    I find those MUCH more offensive than these bots. Especially the bots that stay in the bot-only forum.
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    this was one of the reasons I left to create my own Nintendo homebrew site(s)
    I don't go on here much anymore. Find me on GBAtemp.


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    Quote Originally Posted by quzar View Post
    It's funny to see you people complaining that the site is NOW going to crap. I was saying the same thing before ya'll joined when the PSP section was added and most of the news became advertisements for playasia/divineo/etc.

    I find those MUCH more offensive than these bots. Especially the bots that stay in the bot-only forum.
    The way I compare is when I first joined. I never knew the site before it, but I'm able to ignore wraggsters playasia and Divineo crap by simply ignoring most things he posts. However, they never fill the entire New Posts sections. I haven't left up to this point, though, and I have no plans on leaving anytime soon.

    Bots are repetitive and annoying.

    I miss the M64 days.

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    That's the thing though, when I joined people said it was getting worse, and look at it now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by quzar View Post
    It's funny to see you people complaining that the site is NOW going to crap. I was saying the same thing before ya'll joined when the PSP section was added and most of the news became advertisements for playasia/divineo/etc.

    I find those MUCH more offensive than these bots. Especially the bots that stay in the bot-only forum.
    I don't think back then all the people was complaining about the PSP addition like in the bot newsposters situation.
    And I'm sure a lot of users enjoy to see updates about the new products from Divineo and Playasia.

    And when a new Dreamcast game appeared on Playasia, the news were posted here. So the Dreamcast section had advertisement like the PSP.
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    Quote Originally Posted by quzar View Post
    most of the news became advertisements for playasia/divineo/etc.

    I find those MUCH more offensive than these bots. Especially the bots that stay in the bot-only forum.
    I obviously wasnt here when the PSP section was added.

    But i totally agree about the playasia etc. ads.

    I dont have too much of a problem with the bots, even though i do not agree with them. I think its fine if they all stick at 1 place, but there is a playasia spambot in the sales section, bumping down good genuine threads.

    I dont agree with that.
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    You guys act like the Bots are the only thing wrong with this forum these days.

    The Forum is now dull

    What I suggest is we git rid of the bots, get more Newsposters (So we can make it easier on wraggs), we make community project (DCEmu Magazine, video game, etc.) to make the forum intresting. Look, I am not saying add JUNK (though i am not saying to not add it )But, we still need to spice up these forums

    I can give a shi* over the play asia crap because i just ignore it, and that at least gets wraggs money so we can even have a DCEmu

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