It seems like the userbase has doubled in the last six months. Not any scientific analysis or anything, just going by my fallible memory of how many people I used to see signed in versus what it is now. Things like "Wii Bingo" are old hat references that a lot of people don't even mention anymore because it's just an old joke.
There's a lot of new users that post "Wii Bingo" topics and don't realize how funny they are, on a subject that's been beaten to death and that have been definitively explicated by naznatips, sqrl, shams, the_source, happysquirrel, bodhesatva, and other luminaries who make posts motivated by rational arguments and actually use historical data to back up their assertions.
It almost motivates me to put together a FAQ based on different threads. I would probably start with the NINTENDOMINATION thread. But it would be too much to expect new users to slog through a few thousand posts to educate themselves.
For the time being there's not much to do except ignore the silly posts/threads or go through the old arguments again. It's going to get worse. There's a lot of reasonable criticism that has been aimed at GAF and the way it's run (because of that NYT article) but if you take into account how huge GAF's userbase is some of the policies seem more reasonable. I'm sure as the userbase for VGChartz grows the procedures will tighten (as they have already). IMHO the challenge will be to make VGC more tolerant than GAF. I blame Wii Fit.
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