Originally posted by Connor
When Apple releases a new product do you call them money hungry? We provide free forums for all to use. These things cost money, which is why we provide the option to help out the site by donating. By donating we give you some benefits. As for Outsiders video on the homepage, it was an introduction, not an ad. Many of us joined because of his videos, and it's great news that they may be starting up again. NextGenSource, another free service.
If you're going to be so ungrateful for what is given to you, hit the log out button for a week. I guarantee you'll be itching to come back.
Apple are money hungry, which is why I refuse to buy a new iPod until I have that amount of money as "spare change" or unless it breaks. There have been many months that the donation bar has been hitting almost 200%, meaning 2k a month. Where has all that money gone? I don't think people are "ungrateful" but I think asking people for their opinions isn't hard. If 1 admin doesn't like something, then we all can't have it, even if 200k people like it. I visit NGU as more of a habit now. The quality of posts are going down. Since I stopped playing CoD, GD and debates were the only places I'd visit. Now the quality of the posts are going down and yes, I know this cannot be controlled by the Mods/Admins, but merging them all into one made the GD area a total Cluster fuck. I have no Idea what's a video or debate with some of these stupid titles. Who ever that idea was needs demoting. No one seems to like it.
Originally posted by Gaia
I am going to be honest, NGU has gone shitter (don't even know if it's a word) due to the new updates, merging all the general sections into General Discussion, the NGU youtube channel, we had like 2 or 3 channels, the download section (which is only available to premiums, might as well get rid of the Premium section) and then you have that stupid stream video on top of NGU which is either blocked by AdBlock or is disabled. Ever since these updates happened, I've been less active on NGU then I was back then. Nuff said
I agree. The amount of Youtube channels NGU have had is stupid. I can see NGS won't last long, but hey, maybe I'll be proven wrong. As long as it's controlled by the whole Admin team rather than just one member (like sesh) who then went on to become big on youtube, all thanks to this youtube channel, it might last. The content is on us, the members. Everyone seems to just bum fuck the CoD section and all the other sections suffer. GD used to be a good place, now it's getting full of shit things that isn't worth a discussion. The merging of the sections was, without a doubt, one of the most stupidest ideas this site has ever done. It's a total cluster fuck now.
At one point I'd spend quite a while in the GD area discussing things, and Elfmotats threads were some of the best discussions in their. Now he's not active, those discussions about science and space and shit are long gone. Instead we have shit threads about whose from 4chan and just people trying to troll with the old "cool story bro" (Personally I'd ban every fucker that types that). It's a joke when you try to have a serious discussion and some immature 16 year old comes in and ruins it with a meme. It would be hard to get this forum to what it used to be, but I think it could be done with time, stricter rules and an owner to lay down the law. But, would that happen? Probably not.