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Your boycotted sites
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Your boycotted sites
February 18, 2011 at 2:14 pm
I'm curious to know which websites you personally avoid like the plague and why. I have a list of them I boycott for a variety of reasons and simply wanted to know if I'm the only one here. Websites you regard as cringe-worthy at the mere mention of, sites you recoil from with distain, the glimpse of forces you to vomit blood at your monitor, not literally obviously. ^^ I'll start:

GameSpot.

ARGH. For those of you who don't know why, back in 2007 Jeff Gerstmann, the site's long-time editorial director was dismissed for giving a poor review and well-deserved bashing of "Kane & Lynch", a pretty all-round awful game, subsequently offending producers Eidos who had purchased considerable advertising space on said site (By today's standards it would be the equivalent of Gametrailers stating that Pringles taste like shit after all the trouble Procter & Gamble went to making massive ads that could slow down a f**king supercomputer even). Another member of editing staff, Alex Navarro resigned not long after this messy incident.

They lost all credibility to me after that, and they will never regain it.
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RE: Your boycotted sites
February 18, 2011 at 2:32 pm
The Fox News website.

Sometimes a friend wants me to see an article on there just to get a Lew Black-type diatribe out of me, but I usually end up having a seizure because of it so that's stopped.
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RE: Your boycotted sites
February 18, 2011 at 5:17 pm
(February 18, 2011 at 2:14 pm)Welsh cake Wrote: I'm curious to know which websites you personally avoid like the plague and why.

It's not so much websites with me as it is corporations.

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RE: Your boycotted sites
February 18, 2011 at 6:29 pm (This post was last modified: February 18, 2011 at 6:54 pm by reverendjeremiah.)
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RE: Your boycotted sites
February 18, 2011 at 9:36 pm
Jesus Harry Christ, you're neurotic.
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RE: Your boycotted sites
February 18, 2011 at 9:52 pm
Most of the time, I simply file sites I don't like into the "Forget about it now" bin. Big Grin
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February 18, 2011 at 10:48 pm (This post was last modified: February 18, 2011 at 10:50 pm by theVOID.)
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(February 18, 2011 at 6:29 pm)reverendjeremiah Wrote: - http://www.wnd.com/ (World Net Daily. Did you knwo there is no such thing as a conservative Republican atheist? Atheists are always Nazis and communists. Every kind of right wing conspiracy theory you can think of is published at least once a month in this hard right wing Christian nationalistic "news" source. Did you know liberals sacrifice their children to Baal when they have an abortion? No? Then you havent been reading WND.)

Our lankey friend Adrian took them offline for a bit last year Big Grin
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RE: Your boycotted sites
February 19, 2011 at 6:39 am (This post was last modified: February 19, 2011 at 6:42 am by Justtristo.)
I only boycott 4chan.
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RE: Your boycotted sites
February 19, 2011 at 8:38 am
Dont you think its better to know the enemy?

However I didnt know that about gamespot and will view the reviews with a pinch more salt in future.



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RE: Your boycotted sites
February 19, 2011 at 9:14 am
I don't boycott any site, I just never visit them.
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