Krystal109

On a whole you guys have been understanding, except for a select few who think swearing and threats of attack are the way to handle these matters. The admins will slowly be making their way through checking all content, and we are focusing on using the contributor tracking to make sure that this issue does not come up again.

MVG explained what was explained to us. That the data was added before contributors were tracked.

Perhaps flaming is a wrong term, but I would assume calling us thieves and intentionally covering our tracks flaming. Also the calling us cunts and saying shit like "let's go kick their ass".

I am not referring the the "evidence gathering". It is your right to find and ask for that information to be deleted.

@bob_loblaw:

I am not aware of any behavior on Twitter, as I hate social media websites like Twitter and Facebook, and had no idea of who DrewH was when the Huffington article was posted. As it is now, the team works mostly on a job claim system, in which the owners post upcoming games they want wikia information or walkthroughs for. The staff can then claim those and write them up for payment. The focus for both staff and owners is currently on new and upcoming games... and older games are getting very little coverage with staff edits. This is a major reason why a lot of these issues were not found.

@sexytoad:

I think you guys are not realizing that Gamewise was in beta for a very long time. It is not a matter of a ton of pages being made in a few weeks, you are talking about a lot of pages being copy and pasted over months.

Then there is the issue of the information remaining. As was stated previously, there used to be no way of tracking changes in beta, therefore there would be no way to know what was and wasn't updated. When the new staff came in, we were not aware of this and only worked on games we were interested in, mostly upcoming games, and rarely looked at a lot of older and possibly obscure games.

As I said before, this is no excuse. We are deleting or replacing the information as it is brought to our attention because it rightful should not be there.

Nice way to read that. I am wondering where you got an insult from all that.

I am saying that, as someone who has had my work stolen and sold on amazon, I have had to put forth the effort to have that information taken down. If you want the work taken down from Gamewise, then stop flaming and either do it yourself or stop "hiding" your findings. Every time you guys have pointed out an issue in the open, we have agreed that it was a copy and pasted by a previous user and taken it down. If you would like something taken down, you need only ask, since it is your right to not have your information taken without your permission.

I have nothing against GB or it's users, but I have an issue with the methods of approaching having your information taken down and assuming we are "covering our tracks".

The reason that a lot of the admin team and owners have not replied to this is not to ignore the issue, it is to avoid having to make a stupid account on a site that wishes to sit there and flame them for issue that was out of their control to track and find until this recent article.

Gamewise is aware of the issue and is slowly working their way through the mess to delete any information that is inappropriate or copied, not to cover their tracks. Unfortunately it is hard for a small few to find and delete information that was previously entered.

MVG and myself are admins that only started working for the site a few months ago, therefore we have little understanding of what the site was in beta. Our focus is to add wikia type information and walkthroughs for all new and upcoming games, while hoping that users will fill in, delete, or replace any old game information.

Rather than sitting around flaming, why not delete the information you can prove was copy and pasted into the site. Be aware that a lot of pages have original content that should NOT be deleted, such as the Borderlands 2, Assassin's Creed pages, Disgaea pages, most of the information for upcoming games, etc. There is a lot of hard work put into Gamewise by its staff and users who should not be punished or deleted because of some stuff that happened in beta.

I understand your frustration, as a lot of the current admin team has had their walkthroughs stolen an sold as ebooks on amazon, and this is why we are putting forth the effort and unpaid time to delete all the inappropriate content.