Hi, thank you for your extensive input, we appreciate it and we're all open-ears, since we are not fully educated in the communities we are diving into.
We absolutely agree with your statement, even if we would not have to censor certain words/harassment we would view these types of discussions as inappropiate and achieving nothing. I think you will enjoy the upcomming approach to content!
We are not against criticisms and open discussions of this topic, as we are keeping the " Got woke - went broke " list. As long as it doesn't involve derogatory terms and extremist discussions.
You are correct and thank you for your suggestion, we will be working on nailing down on the main policies that would be acceptable towards the community and google together : )
You will definitely be able to find what you're looking for and more. We as the owners will not be influencing the content that is being written by our talented writers, nor giving any opinions, as long as the content is up to par with google's ToS, we are good to go :) You can expect the content to stay the same and even better than before ( unless you only read Billy's articles ;) ) since we will be focusing a lot more into the game industry!
Chillings : }
Hi
Yep, it was a rushed and misunderstood phrasing from us. We are nowhere close to SJWs,
We're thankful that you understand our stance regarding Google AdSense. The website was not on a path to survive by a long-shot, which is why we came along. The current owners are both apolitical and will not put their personal opinions in upcomming content. But the content will have a slight change, you can find our answer on hate speech over here: https://kotakuinaction2.win/p/11PoxGYBIU/x/c/1ARcz6kwSv
We are entrepreneurs, which sounds corporate, but you can be assured we are nothing like that. We've stumbled upon a reasonable venture in a quite different market as a challenge as continuing something that has actual non-monetary value. Karol, the CEO will be in the shadows working with the back-end of the community, while I - Albert will be working on the front-end and keeping articles up to the expected readers' standards. I personally come from a different spectrum of the gaming community (competitive games) and I'm looking forward to being educated in this niche culture we've encountered : )
" Are traps gay? " In our eyes doesn't have hate speech in itself, the debate arguments are usually what sparks forms of hate speech.
We're not looking for clout from anyone actually, we will put up our statements and whoever will accept the next step, we will welcome and appreciate their presence. I've answered on censorship in previous answers, the tweaks are going to be pretty minimal in the whole picture, you can find the rules we're going to abide by here: https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/9335564
- Yes, yes. Racist. Sexist.
- No, No. Opinion, Opinion.
We misspoke, more details on it have been answered in previous questions, you can find the rules we will be abiding here:
- We are 2 regular entrepreneurs, both apolitical and as I mentioned above will not have any personal influence of creating opinions in our content.
- Unfortunately, I can't disclose the details of our arrangement.
We did not " take " it, it was coughing up its last breaths. We do not look to censor free-speech ourselves (the new management), but the site has to live one way or another. The over-romanticization of free-speech is something that is not sustainable once the website reached the traffic that it is at. We believe that we can keep free-speech alive and well with the next chapter of OAG. If people are not able to express their opinions without using N***, F*** etc., it's not censorship to blame.
Hi, sorry again as I mentioned we have misspoke using that term, as our different definition of it has caused quite an outrage. You can be rest assured that you'll be able to write " OK, dude " freely ;) But radical opinions like that will not. You can get an idea of what to expect by checking out: https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/9335564
Hey, at least where I come from, this would be called sexism, since it conveys that females are superior to men, while at least in our views we consider males and females as equals. Of course we'll be struck with various slogans that will be on the grey area and up to debate as well, we will be evaluating such encounters through un-biased, rational eyes.
Out of respect for Billy, I will mention that he is not a sellout and people should be thankful for the overtime he had kept the website running.
Heya,
It never was a one-man show, the perception of it was.
I can't comment in Billy's well-being, neither the bussiness strategy we have planned, but I can assure you the perception that all of the visitors are from Billy's controversial articles is false. It is less than 20%.
Hi, I've just addressed this misspokement in a comment above, give it a look and let me know if you'd like me to delve more into it. :)
We are Lithuanian, personally me and the CEO are both apolitical and go by common sense, rationality when discussing these kinds of topics, but you can rest assured we will not put any of our personal influence over the upcomming content, writers will have full autonomy over what they will be writing about. Besides Billy's articles, most of the content is up to par with google's standards, so you can expect a continuation of similar content, just without radical, irrational remarks/opinions like the " Traitors of America " list, even though it is close to being " ok'd ", content similar to that would make the website unsustainable.
Hi, I'll start off with saying we misspoke by using the term hate speech before consulting or digging more into the culture we have delved in. As we come from Europe and both me and the CEO are quite apolitical it seems we have quite a different understanding of the term. At first glance it sounds as if we're looking to censor, censor and censor, but that is not the case. The previous format of OAG was absolutely not sustainable and it was lucky to survive as much as it did. We are not looking to censor opinions as long as they abide by the rules, which google has set to make the site fully sustainable, which is basically not using racial slurs and sharing pornography openly, which doesn't seem like a big request to ask from our community, at least in our eyes. The rules that we will have to follow can be found here: https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/9335564
Hi, the policy changes at least from the last few years have been pretty unnoticeable in our eyes :O
You can find them here: https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/9335564
We are moving pornographic material to a discord we will be setting up. Yes, the rules will continue to follow US law, not UN/Globalist anti anime insanity. Although specific categories like Loli, may be subject to isolation in their own tab. These policies will be determined fully later and subject to revision as the need arises based on community management needs.
As I've answered in previous questions, besides the google tweaks, we (the owners) will not be influencing the content produced by our writers. We'll be looking forward to win you back over : )