Part of the reason for this site's success was the brilliant performance of the Wii and DS. People kept wanting to see the results. They wanted to see and discuss projections. Then it kind of eroded from there. One shift I've noticed is a lot of the gaming fanboys have become political fanboys. I don't recall this being a thing with the site in the past. Maybe there's been too much of a shift since all that gamergate BS?
Perhaps the editors of the site can, instead of reporting that "Michael Pachter said blah blah blah" they can come up with articles like "Michael Pachter is deluded and wrong, here's what factors he's missing, this is what the data actually shows."
But you guys in the site department have the metadata on what sort of articles are successful, right? The data on which articles attract a steady viewership of certain user profiles?
I describe myself as a little dose of toxic masculinity.
Essay Pro