icycalm escribió:I would like to know what your standard of success and failure for a website are...
Of course I was talking just about popularity. A website with no visitors is a failure. I'm not saying I get no visitors and even some nice feedback once in a while, but it's not enough for what this place offers. Especially considering the competition. I know it's directly related with the quantity-over-quality mindset and whatnot (I actually believe it's worse than that, though; the people just can't tell where there is quality and where there is not), but that's besides the point -- simply, I don't run a website only because I somehow enjoy it, but because I want my stuff to be read. And, as you know, I already stopped caring about winning that battle.
The other thing you say, that you've only said a fraction of what you have to say on video games, was exactly the problem I was facing several months ago, and am still facing in fact. Basically, reviews are of secondary importance -- and I think you will agree with me on this: the most important things we have to say need to go in articles. So, in the past, for the sake of balance and variety, I used to post one article per 4 or 5 reviews, but this was much too slow a rate for me. So I pretty much dropped the reviews and concentrated on the articles. My reasoning now is this: I might as well get all the articles out of the way (the most important ones, at any rate), and then I can devote myself to reviews, if I still feel like there's a point to doing them. Otherwise, if I had kept to the 5/1 ratio of reviews to articles, it would end up taking me half a decade to get done saying all I had to say.
Well, we have different ways to approach this subject. I indeed think that the best way I have to show what I want is through "reviews"/game-focused articles. For instance, if I want to explain why 20-years-old games like Gen-san look better than hi-res, 32-bit colors Western stuff like the Boy and his Blob remake, there's nothing like having a "review" of it with proper screens.
I wish I had the patience and skills to write so many understandable theory-focused editorials as yourself, but I just don't have them nor I'd enjoy it as much. And think about this -- I myself did enjoy Insomnia more when you favored reviews over editorials or philosophy lessons.
Another thing I wanted to ask... what happened with Hayama Akito? I tried babelfishing the relevant thread, but didn't manage to understand much.
Hayama Akito is one of the few persons, much like yourself, who is aware that _I_ am the fucking best source for news on Japanese games. Not just because of how I do the selection and add the illustrative commentary you don't find anywhere else, but because I've been doing it for more years he can even remember and have provided the original sources like nobody else does. I learned that he essentially copy-pasted once and again the news from Postback in his Gamercafe without mentioning his actual source, to the point of ridiculeness -- taking advantage, of course, of Postback's "obscurity". It was quite hilarious finding out that he indeed had been linking IC back when I posted the news there.
Then I learned that he also had been doing it at Shoryuken Dot Com, taking credit for stuff he just saw here first, and he never was grateful even once, despite knowing that every news worth posting he "revealed" (and "reveals") to his very public was/is thanks to me (or Zepy, if you count doujin as worth material) -- even if it's only because without me, he wouldn't have a miserable Japanese source. So I got tired of this kid with that hunger for fame and false acknowledgement, especially when I asked him to stop and he persisted on insulting me by denying it all.
Gamercafe is so horrid from a language/textual perspective I do wonder if anybody there is over 12, anyhow.
At any rate I was surprised to learn that he's the only person you've had to ban so far. I would have expected a few more bannings over the 4+ years that you've been running this site. It seems my site is a moron-magnet for some reason :(
If it serves, Hayama is not the only one. A couple more followed soon after and another couple would have been banned if they hadn't stopped posting, I'm sure.
Edit: Silly errata.
