Farsala said:
Aquamarine said:
Thank fucking NeoGAF moderation for permabanning my friend NPD George / NDP Mulcair.
George / Mulcair is from The NPD Group. He's my contact at the agency in Port Washington. I helped him set up an account and actually was able to convince NPD that it was a good idea to help out GAF / other sites with some official information starting with October 2015 NPD.
But apparently that piece of shit admin Stumpokapow decided to ruin a perfectly good thing and permaban my friend because they got into their stupid little heads that he was "my alt account" which doesn't make any sense. I set up his profile on my computer and then told him the login and password because he's not very good with forums, and apparently that's "proof of an alt account" despite him clearly being a very different poster than I was.
I tried to get back on NeoGAF in the past...I reached out to the mods to be unbanned at multiple points...but they have completely ignored me. So I thought bringing George to GAF could act as a good replacement for data so everyone didn't always have to rely on leaks.
But apparently the arrogance and elitism of the NeoGAF moderators knows no bounds, and they'd rather stick to their draconian ways instead of getting more of a good thing. So you know what? Fuck them. We're done.
We all think it's utterly ridiculous that they're acting like children. This incident has really soured our opinion of the forum. But hey, what can you do? NeoGAF is really going downhill. I'm finally starting to understand why there is so much hatred against them on the Internet.
I have nothing against Chartz forums or any of you guys. NPD used to be really draconian last year so I was pressured pretty hardcore into trying to stop leaks but they've got new management lately that has been more open towards sharing tidbits of data (like hardware), hence the existence of NPD George / NDP Mulcair. This incident will probably close everything down again, which sucks.
If I can leak something here in the future with the permission of NPD I will, but it's probably unlikely.
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It seems Creamsugar is the only source now?
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Creamsugar, John Harker, and CosmicQueso are the three NPD leakers on GAF that have data. They all leak stuff every month, although Creamsugar leaks the most and is the most visible.
The NPD Group knows about each one of them (Creamsugar is from China, John Harker is from Ubisoft, and CosmicQueso is probably some analyst from California, but they don't know anything beyond that) so they're powerless to stop them. They only got me because they were able to figure out who I was at JPMorgan Chase. I know people there so I tried negotiating with them.
It's through their existence that I was eventually able to soften them up and get them to consider revealing things themselves. The data was going to be leaked anyway, and it's not enough leaks to go through the effort suing NeoGAF or giving them a C&D (like they did back in 2007), so might as well reveal them yourselves.
But George was really shocked they would decide to perma-ban them. That's not going over well at all with this experiment, which is why the whole ordeal is so fucking frustrating. Then again, I've read horror stories about the incompetency of NeoGAF moderation in the past, so it really doesn't surprise me how they're acting this time around.
