Lack of content.
Elitist community that seem to think they're better than everyone else because they visit a more 'intellectual' website.
The countless 'memes' and 'in-jokes'.
Staff who once said they'd never go down the ads and subscription route, only to do a total U-turn on everything they apparently believed in.
Staff that, for the most part, are terrible at playing games.
Staff with such out-of-whack egos they think people care more about watching them drink and do dumb stuff than actually cover video games.
Staff who ignore and belittle games they've never even tried.
Staff who are unfair to plenty of titles and hardware, and overly complimentary to their favorites.
People in the community who will defend the GB staff to the hilt and suck up to them to no end.
The word 'duder'.
Forum users who refer to people who don't visit GB as 'outsiders'.
Forum users who insist on criticising perfectly fine sites like IGN, Kotaku, Gamespot, etc, just because it's not their cup of tea and they'd bend over backwards to take the flag of GiantBomb right up their anus.
Countless PC elitists ruining the name of the PC community.
Countless forum posters who think they're incredibly important because they've got 50,000 posts.
And plenty more.
But mainly lack of content.
Yes, the food here is terrible, and such small portions.
All legitimate gripes IMO. I agree with many of your points except "duder". I like duder, duder. :p Also, I don't think it's the guys ego's that is fueling the kind of "dumb stuff" non-video game content you are referring to. I think they produce that sort of stuff because the vast majority of users here like and demand that kind of content. They've managed to create a site where users would watch them eat pancakes and crack jokes for 2 hours and demand more when it's over! If I could make a living out of just being goofy and myself on the internet, I would do the same thing. I personally don't watch those videos, but I think I'm in the minority.
The biggest thing I don't like about this place is how poorly moderated the community forums are. I mean, a harmless youtube thread will get locked in seconds, yet when one member calls another member a "fag" or a "fucking asshole" the moderators just let it go. No warning, no ban, nothing. I find that completely unacceptable and IMO it drags the community name in the dirt. Vile personal insults should not be tolerated, plain and simple.
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