Jeff Gerstmann fired over review...

Peanut · 12-02-2007, 12:29 PM

In case no one has been keeping up with the recent community rumblings, there have been a couple very active GS community members organizing some stuff, one of which was a mass spam attack on companies that hold ad space on Gamespot. The point would be to get across that all of these potential consumers would refuse to purchase any product advertised on the site, and continued on to tell them how bad Gamespot and Cnet's rep had become with the community. This began sometime last night, and if anyone bothered to visit Gamespot, they would have noticed the site was covered in ads for Mountain Dew. And not just the main page, but every page without any breaks.

Because of this, Pepsi was the first company to get bombarded by a cross community spam blitz. Everyone from people in the GS community, to NeoGAF and 1up banded together on this one. As of this morning, every single Mountain Dew ad had been pulled. Including ads on Gamespot's sister sites, such as MP3.com and GameFAQs.

An interesting development to say the least.

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12-02-2007, 12:29 PM	#28
Peanut Second Gear Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: The New World Posts: 15,422	In case no one has been keeping up with the recent community rumblings, there have been a couple very active GS community members organizing some stuff, one of which was a mass spam attack on companies that hold ad space on Gamespot. The point would be to get across that all of these potential consumers would refuse to purchase any product advertised on the site, and continued on to tell them how bad Gamespot and Cnet's rep had become with the community. This began sometime last night, and if anyone bothered to visit Gamespot, they would have noticed the site was covered in ads for Mountain Dew. And not just the main page, but every page without any breaks. Because of this, Pepsi was the first company to get bombarded by a cross community spam blitz. Everyone from people in the GS community, to NeoGAF and 1up banded together on this one. As of this morning, every single Mountain Dew ad had been pulled. Including ads on Gamespot's sister sites, such as MP3.com and GameFAQs. An interesting development to say the least.