![]() What is with all the external links? This article just seems like a huge advertisement for CNet. Let us recall that this is a discussion section for inclusion into an encyclopedic article and not a place for random banter about your personal opinion of a website. Ayhnjroo ( talk) 01:43, 5 August 2009 (UTC)ayhnjroo Reply Okay maybe we could have a criticism section with the biggest complaints, but we would need to balance it with a section made up of just the good things, along the lines of lover mail on the mailbag. CNET is the reason that I wish I could block specific websites on Google News -Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.21.101.48 ( talk) 19:20, 2 November 2008 (UTC) Reply every article that I read on CNET seems engineered solely to drum up drama and get them more page views. I hope I'm not the only one who has picked up on this. They get weak at the knees when talking about iPods, but when reviewing another product, they make the dumbest comments such as "the scroll button might give you blisters," which of course, is ridiculous. A good example is that retard who reviews mp3 players. I suspect they get paid off by companies to write so much crap. They write the most nonsensical articles. email sent by CNET staff is flagged as junk by both HotMail and AOL at the very least! - 69.70.168.24 14:03, 8 August 2006 Just use Adblock with Firefox :) I have nothing but bad things to say about their site. And guess what? Their forum software is crap too! It's tree-view-only, there's no flood control, and it's actually possible to post to locked threads! Their forum Admin is useless - he cannot and does not do ANYTHING himself - duties are entirely divided among a staff of paid moderators and technicians. Also their 'Speakeasy' forum is strongly right-wing biased - during the time I was there, I was constantly attacked for having centrist and liberal opinions on topics. There is a member who uses the screen name Mark5019 who is a mentally unstable Vietnam war vet and who is apparently close friends with some moderators, as he was able to convince them to ban me though I had not broken any rules. A big beef I have with them is moderator favouritism. Some of their pages contain a couple paragraph of substance followed by globs and globs of links and ads! Who the heck would bother scrolling down pages after pages of links? 66.171.76.225 03:43, 30 June 2006 (UTC) Reply Agreed. Their site is just crap! I can't stand all those videos and ads all over the place. I would write the section myself but I don't know enough about them and their history.Īgreed, look what they just did to GameFAQs.- 80.227.100.62 07:50, 12 April 2006 (UTC) Reply I also agree. All of their sites are full of annoying graphical ads and crowded interfaces. They aquire cool websites on the internet and then crapify them. Someone please add a crit section to cnet. Derek Ross | Talk 04:59, 13 October 2005 (UTC) Reply Thanks and kudos to CNet for acting so promptly on this issue. There is now no spyware issue with using CNet websites. I'm impressed to see that CNet has now removed the problem software. Derek Ross | Talk 00:11, 13 October 2005 (UTC) Reply The privacy policy link that has now appeared only explains the situation for US residents. Perhaps our anonymous friend would care to share with us the reasons why this was done. I note that the warnings which I added to the article showing which of the many links are dubious have been removed by an anonymous user without any discussion of whether it was appropriate to do so. Derek Ross | Talk 03:04, 11 October 2005 (UTC) Reply Under most circumstances I would just delete such links but in this case they point to the websites belonging to the subject of the article so it's not really an option. I don't know whether it is deliberate policy on their part or the result of some hack attack or virus infection by others but I think it only fair that we warn our visitors in case they want to avoid spyware. The only reason that I noticed was that I have Spybot Search and Destroy running resident on my PC. These guys are currently attempting to install spyware on to their visitor's computers. ![]()
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