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My Giantbomb annoyances.

There are a few things that really annoy me on this site, and I'd like to rant about them. To get it off right here this is NOT a blog about pending submissions, or anything like that. Its talking only about users. 


1. People who ask to be a mod, everywhere. I hate the people that will go to the forums, and post a topic, "Giantbomb I want to be a mod" Then you go to their page, and in there status update it says I want to help out and be a mod. Then in their blog it says I WANT TO BE A MOD, WHY ISNT ANYONE LISTENING? 

This was an actual user I saw. Guess how much he had contributed to the site? Nothing. 0 points, no pending submissions. This kid have 4 forums post, and 0 friends. He had literly been on the site for 5 minutes, and was already bitching because he wasn't a mod yet. I mean come on seriously? Im sure If I would have messaged him and asked him if he knew what it meant to be a mod, he'd have no clue.  This one annoys me the most. I'm friends with a couple mods, and they've all told me that they were basically picked at random, for what they did on the site. Wether it be a good blog post, good post on the forums, ect. 
Mondo Burger. What? This blog needed a picture.
Mondo Burger. What? This blog needed a picture.

2. People blogging multiple times a day. I myself, pride myself in commenting on almost everyone of my friends blogs. I don't really expect them to return the favor, but it would be nice. The reason I comment so much is I remember being a new user on gamespot, and sometimes making blogs getting no comments. That was the worst feeling. You felt like yor wrote up the whole thing for nothing. 

Which brings me to my point. I mean Im on this site around 7-8 hours a day, for ive been addicted here, and not even gaming. I could easily post 3 blogs a day, but I dont. Why? Because I have some loyal viewers, and I don't want to annoy them with half ass blogs. There are a couple people on my friends list that will post blogs like, "I just got home from work" or "I just shot two pigeons in gta." Seriously? I mean first off I could care less. I would actually care if you told what happened at work, or something, something more then just I got home. Please people stop abusing the fact that you can blog as much as you want, and remember you are wasting peoples time writing shit blogs.

3. People posting youtube vids in their blogs everyday, and nothing else. Yes I realize I have a feature called every three, where I post a vid. Why is it called every three? Because I only post a video every THREE days. And in that blog post I will explain how I found it, and maybe write a tiny bit more about my day or something. People find that its really easy to just post a random video, sometimes pretty sucky, and not even write words. Ugh that annoys me. 

Yes I understand that it is their blog. They can do whatever the fuck they want with it. But I just have to take them off my friends list, because I don't want this site to turn into youtube, and people posting videos that you've most likely already seen, instead of posting good content. So what I have to say is i'm fine with people posting vids, hell I do it myself, but please don't just post them everyday, that gets boring. 

4. People crying about their pending content. I mean really? Do you realize that this site has had around 40,000 submissions. And that before a few days ago there was only 4 mods going through them! Yes they could have just skimmed through it, and added it to the site. But the big four didn't want their site to be a load of bullshit, so they read through everything, before adding it. It just really really annoys me when people wrote countless blogs about the mods are soo lazy, they don't check the stuff it order, blah blah blah. 
Those people are about as smart as Pete.
Those people are about as smart as Pete.

But then after that blog, which none of us care about, nor want to read, they have the audacity to write. Don't comment on this blog telling me to be patient. I realize I have to be patient. Don't flame my comment board. Wow, just wow. First off if you realize you need to be patient, they why are you just sucking it up, and being patient? Secondly, your telling us not to flame your comment board, when your flaming the site itself with your blog! All I can say is that Id like to see those people start a game site. 

5. Double posting. Yes this has been a age long problems in forums, and it is only worsened here because there aren't many mods to lock topics. Im ok if something random gets double posted on off topic or something. Because it would take hours to search through that entire board. But what actually annoys me is when you are on a specific game board, such as the gears of war 2 game board, and stuff gets double posted. I would take you an entire 10 seconds to make sure the topic you are about to post isn't being talked about. 

For example I posted a Gears of war 2 topic asking people wether they wanted to buy the limited, or regular edition. We ended up mostly discussing that we were either going to get it for the golden lancer, or not. Later there were two topics, asking if you wanted to get the limited JUST because of the golden lancer. Well Hello! We are already are talking about that in MY post. Luckily both of those got deleted. There are probably more up right now though. 

6. Last one. People posting on their own walls. Now i'm not just talking about one random post saying something funny. I'm talking there having a conversation with someone, and instead of going and posting on that person wall, they will respond on their own wall. I just have to laugh at this one. Thats not how it works! Haven't you ever used facebook or myspace?!! 

To conclude this long blog I want to tell you this. Most to all of you on my friends list are not guilty of ANY of these things. And I'm not accusing you of being guilty. Most of the people guilty of these I have taken off my friends list. Because I was getting sick of them.

Thanks for reading.
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