EllieSince (e: I am told that) Fandom apparently intends to remove text walkthroughs from GameFAQs (which Fandom now owns), a tip of the hat to Reddit user prograc, who scraped all of GameFAQs up through March 23, 2020; the full archive is available here: https://archive.org/details/Gamespot_Gamefaqs_TXTs
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@noelle they intend to fucking what
&Kalmia@aeonofdiscord @noelle the slash and burn of the internet continues
9th level spell slut@IrisKalmia @aeonofdiscord @noelle i don't see anything about this; the only results i see for fandom + gamefaqs are about the purchase back in october 2022
@hierarchon @aeonofdiscord @noelle I really don't think it's fearmongering when they've historically bought resources and gutted them as part of their integration. GameFAQs is just a long standing Brand with a good reputation to them, none of it's other assets matter
@IrisKalmia if you're going to say "company X is doing Y" then X needs to have actually said they're going to do it, rather than "well, they'll probably do it soon" imo
@hierarchon I'm of the opinion that if an organization is known to do something the pragmatic option is to assume they'll do so and attempt to prepare accordingly?
@IrisKalmia sure, but there's a difference between 'you should prepare for them to do X' and 'they are doing X'
@hierarchon There is, but one makes for more effective calls to mobilization
@IrisKalmia I don't think we should get in the habit of saying things that aren't true to motivate people to do things
@hierarchon Sadly it's a well documented and exploited tactic at this point