It's a 25-pixel button at the top of the page people, if you don't want to use it or don't like what it offers, don't click it! If your hatred for the idea burns like a thousand flaming Goku spirit bombs or whatever then I'll do you one better:  Install adblock  http://adblockplus.org/en/installation   and banish it from your sight!

" @Red said:

" Completely agree, Sweepy-boy. In real life, the people who I know who might know what Giant Bomb is are dorks. "

You have almost 3500 posts on a video game website message board duder, you're the pot calling the kettle black "

" It's a 25-pixel button at the top of the page people, if you don't want to use it or don't like what it offers, don't click it! If your hatred for the idea burns like a thousand flaming Goku spirit bombs or whatever then I'll do you one better:  Install adblock  http://adblockplus.org/en/installation   and banish it from your sight! "

I've said this before so I'll say it again. I may not like the button but I leave it alone and it leaves me alone. We're all happy. I know this is a short. blunt answer but in the end it all boils down to this.

"  If you want to have your shit seen, you need to market yourself. We provide the best tools we can to allow you to create your content, but it's up to you to make sure that content is viewed.  "

I agree, I don't understand it either, it just seems really weird. My real friends on Facebook would be baffled and confused by any comments concerning videogames, or anything  else geeky.

  @eroticfishcake said:

" I've said this before so I'll say it again. I may not like the button but I leave it alone and it leaves me alone. We're all happy. I know this is a short. blunt answer but in the end it all boils down to this. "

Keywords are "not required".  It's an OPTION, not a mandate.  You're crusading about something that doesn't need to be crusaded.  That's all I'm saying. " 

" It's an entirely optional feature for those people who wish to integrate their Giant Bomb activity into their Facebook profile.

" If you don't wanna use the Facebook integration, then don't. 

" Show me one place on Giant Bomb where we force your content onto Facebook? Show me one place where we don't ask you to click a button to push your content somewhere. Find the place where Giant Bomb spams you. Find the preference that sends you tons of email as a new user without your permission."

So I just tested it out and it doesn't seem to post your forum post on your facebook, Just the blogs and if you choose to it shows a daily update on your achievements. No biggie, no spam assault on the news/live feed.

" So I just tested it out and it doesn't seem to post your forum post on your facebook, Just the blogs and if you choose to it shows a daily update on your achievements. No biggie, no spam assault on the news/live feed. "

Facebook, meh...

The fact that this thread exists infuriates me.
 
Fuck you whiny little motherfuckers.
@Sleepy_Insomniac said: "God, I'll probably leave this site soon."
I'll leave the forums right now. Fuck this self-indulgent, worthless piece of shit "opinion" on a nonissue and fuck all the supporters.
Thank you and have a nice fucking day.

" @Milkman said:

" @Rowr: I would agree if it wasn't for the last paragraph, and specifically that bold sentence. 
 
"I find it sadly ironic that it's now easier for people to find my blogs on facebook than on giantbomb." It's obvious that this whole thread is just a loaded arguement in order for him to once again start up the whole "community spotlight" arguement. This isn't about Facebook. It's about Sweep and some of the other people on this site not being able to get over the fact that there content isn't as prominent as the staff's. And quite frankly, it's getting old. "

I think you've got it all wrong man. I think what he is trying to say, is that he doesnt want people on facebook looking at his blogs, they are meant for giantbomb. I think you have a bit of a conspiracy theory going on there. Sweep isnt nearly as egotistical as you seem to think. 
 

@MrJared

said:

" @Rowr said:

There's absolutely no way i want any connection between facebook and giantbomb

I'm still greatly interested in hearing why some of you want absolutely no interaction between the two. In my experience with dealing with dozens upon dozens of other social sites, the only negative I've ever come across is when an application spams your friends and as Snide pointed out, GiantBomb doesn't do this.
 
So why all the rage again? It seriously can't be "I don't want to see a button," can it? Let's keep in mind that this is an entirely optional feature. "

I dont see any rage? aside from snides post and everybody unhelpfully pointing out sweep doesnt need to use the option (which he obviously knows.)   If anyone actually bothered to read the blog, they might realise sweep wasnt raging so much as posing the question, "will people use this? why?"  As far as my life is concerned, my gaming habit and time i spend with giantbomb will be severely misunderstood by most of my friends and family on facebook. It's that simple. I like the two worlds very separated.  Unlike many of you, i dont live in a cosy geekworld. I work in a trade, 95 percent of people i know in the real world want nothing to do with video games and thats fine with me. I dont need to be told it should be any different "

Hey cool, now I can easily, optionally share Giant Bomb activity to my friends on Facebook.

I get the feeling that a lot of people replying haven't even read the original post lol

I finally got to understand what the button does by reading this thread. But unlike a whole lot of other people I kept my mouth shut until I knew instead of going on crazy negative tangents. 
If I can choose exactly what's get's pushed to Facebook then I'm cool with this. I don't feel ashamed of who I am and I have lots of friends on Facebook that are gamers too so it's not wierd for me to have videogame realated updates on Facebook. My only fear would been that I would spam my friends with updates like the f**king Farmvilles and their likes.  
The only negative thing I have to say about the little button is that it loads into the site a bit slow so I always look at it when I relod the page. A minor annoyance.
 
Excelent post by Snide. Being a editor in chief myself of game site I sure as hell now how he feels. When you work hard on stuff and people then react negative before knowing facts.  
One tip for avoiding this in the future. Make an article/post (on the frontpage so everyone can see it) that in detail explains exactly what the updates have done. We started doing this last summer on my site and the feedback is positive because very few things get's misunderstood. 

" The fact that this thread exists infuriates me.
 
Fuck you whiny little motherfuckers.
@Sleepy_Insomniac said: "God, I'll probably leave this site soon." I'll leave the forums right now. Fuck this self-indulgent, worthless piece of shit "opinion" on a nonissue and fuck all the supporters. Thank you and have a nice fucking day. "

WHERE TO BEGIN?

@Hamz:

@Johnny5

" I get the feeling that a lot of people replying haven't even read the original post lol "

@snide:

Sweep Said:

 I am ignoring it. I just wanted to explain why i'm ignoring it :D 

@turbomonkey138

" Wow i was expecting to see you complain about the forum like most people do . Bomb shelter is a great idea :D "

"I agree completely Sweep, 

And that Photoshop of what things could be is amazing, 
 
+1 vote to sweep's Idea, Snide make it so!  

"

" Hope that this or something similar happens "

"Your argument is salient, make no mistake: the community presence on Giant Bomb deserves a boost in visibility and access, if only to encourage more people to get invested in the site and be more thoughtful/attached to the content they produce. Great post! "

" @Sweep: Im with you! The photoshop work u have done would be great if turned into reality! Let's hope this happens "

"   @Ahmad_Metallic said:

" very cool thoughts and the bombshelter will probably encourage me more to read community entries.. SWEEP FOR PRESIDENT "

Exactly what I was thinking :D "

" yes sir, I agree. "

" Great ideas, dude. It'll definately be helpful if these can be used correctly. "

" +1 for great post.  You've expressed a lot of issues I've had with the site over the past few months. "

" Great ideas, dude. It'll definately be helpful if these can be used correctly. "

" I like and agree with most of your suggestions.  "

" Yeah, all good points, both some new things and fixing existing features. I would LOVE a real Community Manager here. "

" I wholeheartedly agree.   One of the reasons I stopped posting here - I use it as my main entertaining games-news source - was because these aspects of the community weren't promoted. "

" What a neat idea."

" I would totally hang out on this site more if there's something like that. I'm all for it.  "

"  I would love to see a community focus. It's a wonderful idea. "

" I agree with all your suggestions but I'd wish they'd update the wiki features. That's a part of the site that's been neglected for a long time now. "

@Snail said:

" That seems like a great idea. Good job Sweep.

@Gamer_152

" you do make some very good points Sweep. It would be great to see both a lot of the awesome community-created content that is going largely unnoticed get the spotlight it deserves and to see more members of the Giant Bomb community be encouraged to contribute more content.
"

" I totally agree. Great contributors are going unnoticed. I also don't know who to follow if I haven't been exposed to their blogs/reviews by some accidental nature.  "

@JJWeatherman

" Now that I can see a prototype I think a community page all on it's own is a pretty great idea. You're right, there is a lot of content that goes unnoticed. I think the Community Spotlight being converted into a full on section of the site would allow it to be shown off more. Anyways, good ideas. "

" AWesome mock-up and great ideas, Sweep. There was really a sense of community coming together in the early days of GB, but since then I've stopped really participating in community stuff and only actually follow/talk to a select few members on Giant Bomb. But it doesn't need to be that way if user created stuff was at the forefront more. "

" Great post and I agree with you on every point. "

" The site needs more user blog promotion, just as the guy said, look at Destructoid, it doesn't have it own wiki/database and awesome video features but the user blogs are fun to read and are well promoted, they usually appear in the front page if they are good enough. Here when I find a good blogger is only by luck, if someone had some cool reply to a thread I look on his profile to see if he has a blog, that is sad "

" Bombshelter=excellent idea. "

" I'm with you Sweep. I've been here since day 1 and I agree with everything you said. Much of what you said is why I don't blog here and why I stopped writing user reviews (there doesn't feel like there is a point to it). Also, I love that mock up. The Bomb Shelter is a dead sexy idea. I love it. Maybe Dave and Andy should hire you. "

" Dude, you're spot on.  "

" Sweep, once again comes through with some good suggestions. "

" I think these are good ideas and I, for one, would visit a community-focused page as that would help weed out all of the generic garbage posts people have been griping about and focus on interesting blogs and such. "

" All great ideas. Bombshelter is cool. I definitely wish blogs had a much large place on Giant Bomb. "

" "I'm Commander Shepard and this is my favourite blog on The Citadel" "

" That...that's....oh my god.  Sweep, you're a genius. "

" Yeah, I think a Community Spotlight tab at the top would be pretty cool. "

" Sweep for president!  Hope these ideas get implemented. "

" Christ, Sweep, sometimes you are just so diamondcore rad and productive that it makes me feel like I'm a dying fish flopping about on a sidewalk. Love the BombShelter idea (and the corresponding mock up), and your insight is pretty much bang on the money for me. "

" This has been needed for quite sometime. Not to mention the decline of users being active on GiantBomb, I think, is a result of the lack of community features. Wonderful work, let's hope this happens some time soon!  "

" This seems like a pretty good idea. Great job Sweep. "

" I like it. I like it a lot.  Make it happen "the men upstairs". "

" I agree with all of your points Sweep. There needs to be more ways for users to get their content out to others. "

" Sweep deserves some sort of medal.  I wouldn't mind a more focused outlook. My review blogs could always use a few more posts... "

"The staff has done nothing to improve the community since launch really thinking of it. Guess there is that featured review thing but that is it. "

" man im pretty surprised i was expecing you to bitch about how you dont like  the site but it was pretty well done "

" I love the Bomb Shelter idea. I would spend most of my time there. "

" Awesome Idea! "

" Good to see someone being pro-active with their problems instead of just sitting here complaining.   I've been away from the site for a couple of months and heard rumours of a community area where I could catch up or see whats been going on. UUnofrtunately it took nearly half hour of digging to find the damn thing! A specific area where people can point to and be proud if they appear would be awesome. "

" Bombshelter looks like it would be a great addtion to the site.  Highlighting user reviews would be especially cool "

" This sounds like a great idea to me. I'm all for it. "

" Great idea and layout of a page. "

" I support this idea. "

And that's just from one Blog.

@ALL YOU OTHER CUNTS

People know my gaming life. I mean, my fucking girlfriend met came to GiantBomb's office, and I have a pic of Jeff and I on my Facebook. I don't hide it at all.

" People know my gaming life. I mean, my fucking girlfriend met came to GiantBomb's office, and I have a pic of Jeff and I on my Facebook. I don't hide it at all. "

" @thehexeditor said:

" The fact that this thread exists infuriates me.
 
Fuck you whiny little motherfuckers.
@Sleepy_Insomniac said: "God, I'll probably leave this site soon." I'll leave the forums right now. Fuck this self-indulgent, worthless piece of shit "opinion" on a nonissue and fuck all the supporters. Thank you and have a nice fucking day. "

Are we supposed to pay attention to you? "

This is such a dumb thing to argue about. How about everyone just takes 5 to go wash the sand out of their vaginas and then uses their freetime to play a videogame, or make posts about a videogame instead of having a crazy bitchfest about a new button that you can click on, if you want to. I can't believe people really have such low-stress lives that they feel the need to get hot-and-bothered over site designs now. The good news for dave is that the percentage of giantbomb users who will stumble on this train-wreck of a thread is pretty low.
 
If it really bothers you, maybe someone can make a greasmonkey script that blocks the facebook frame from appearing for you. Then you can live in your own facebook-free shard universe.

From what I can tell, you connect your accounts and then you can post links to things on giant bomb on your facebook page. So if I want to promote one of my lists or threads or something, I can do that. I really don't see the problem here...

Too true.