Revised iReport up on CNN

I'm guilty of responding to Angry_Citizen but the back and forth arguing is overshadowing the original topic.

I'm sorry, Vengeance_MK2. Congratulations on getting the article vetted, I thought it was nicely done. That should have been the first thing I said in my other post.

C'mon people. Don't allow your threads to be hijacked like this. Angry_Citizen is obviously a troll, or someone with a personality disorder, or both.

For the sake of everything you are trying to accomplish here, let your only response be "Angry_Citizen: Troll: Ignored." And then move on!

Nice that it got Vetted, I just changed the MotD on Justice with the updated report #

Seeing this article makes my hope-o-meter go from "not really expecting a miracle" to "y'know, this crazy longshot just might work...". If it does... well, let's just say that I agree with the last two paragraphs of your article.
If we get some mainstream media coverage, other consumer groups might decide to follow our example, and that could change business-consumer relations drastically. People already use the internet to find and write reviews of various products and services, but so far, most of those reviews seem to be an accumulation of individual voices rather than a (semi-)organized group calling for action. I really wonder how difficult it is to move from one to the other. With social networking becoming more widespread, it seems to me that that step would be getting smaller and easier every day.

Sure, an American company made up of 80+ members, that has provided a profitable product that has repeatedly received awards within the industry despite its age, despite (or because of?) its approaches that do not follow the standards of the industry, that has sustained a stable and loyal customer-base that have been highly satisfied and eager for more, that has created one of the friendliest online game communities for the past 8 years... Being dumped by the billion-dollar Korean company, most likely because the small profits, that come from this smaller American business, are no longer of that billion-dollar company's interest, so they laid everyone off and planned to run it into the ground instead of selling it...
Sure, that's not newsworthy, because no one is concerned with small American business. It's not that NCSoft are villains here. It's that we're drawing attention to the fact that small businesses (if you can call this small) are still viable, profitable, and damn-well desired, both by employees and customers.

The real problem could be... Are there any American (or other) businesses out there willing/capable of buying and producing/backing this talented studio? Anyone with enough money... but not too much money (so that these profits are not good enough) in America to care about quality products, created by talented artists that satisfies niche customers?
There should be a place for such things. Is there?
And... can an online community and grassroots movement help to point out specific examples of these occurrences? And can they help to get the right people aware and into the situation so that they can all benefit? If the right investors are out there, but didn't realize the situation... maybe attention to it will help everyone (NCSoft included).

This is not crack babies foolishly grabbing for a fix. And anyone, especially within this community, that offers those descriptions really is not worthy of any of this reply... but anyone else that may not understand... maybe some of these words may help to believe that this isn't just some stupid case of selfish desires.
It is situations exactly like this, all over the place, that are how things work... but are we happy with that? Are they part of much bigger problems?
The little things, all over, throughout our lives, communities and societies are what make up the whole.
Take action on any level and let everyone decide what importance it is to them and it will unfold how it will unfold. Maybe people haven't been drawing enough attention to the "little, unimportant things". That's no reason to continue that trend.
And when there is passion, there is action.
That's what's going on here (plus, a bonded, diverse, yet tight-knit community with a shared goal).

Paragon Studios well deserves the right to carry on with the great product they've been providing. This community well deserves to continue. If it can happen, all of these actions and attempts at getting the word out might help it to happen.

If anyone doesn't think any of that is news worthy... change the channel.

Flick is just looking for attention. He tries to make issues he feels are important dominate out of his own lack of self worth. Notice how is response to me wasnt a response, just insults? Kind of a marker that the person in question brought a nerf bat to a gun fight when it comes to defending their stance.

That said, his perspective is valid, from a very narrow point of view. Very narrow.

All I can say, is if this was a normal situation why has there been such an organized response. Adolecent crybabies, wouldnt have made this kind of impact. The fact that the community has managed such a response gives validity to its own claim. And hopefully, the lessons learned here will carry over to other causes.

That, and, if its really so trivial, why does it upset him so much?

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Originally Posted by Slaunyeh Yes, instead of "wasting time" writing this iReport, the OP could instead have spend his time in a productive manner, get a degree in journalism and travel to Africa to expose all those African Warlords and save the world.

Slaunyeh, im ALREADY working on my 3rd degree, working on another fashion publication, and redesigning a hubless electric motorcycle drivetrain. NOW I have to stop african warlords too?

Sigh.

fine.

Well, I guess an extreme situation is what it takes for people to show their true colours. It's a good thing I did a solidarity clean-up of my ignore list to drop old grudges, because I've been filling it up all over again with a whole different sort of malicious, self-righteous people who seem to come to these forums for no reason but to talk down on others.

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.