by Psychotic » Mon May 13, 13 12:04 pm
Been going on for a lot longer. Years, actually.
Gawker is almost as well-known for it's random UI changes as Facebook is. There is also doesn't seem to be any justifiable reason for them, either (just like Facebook's!), other than as a means of quickly decreasing market revenue (short-term, usually evens out long-term) and just plain alienating and frustrating their users.
Kotaku on the other hand is the kind of website who on one hand touts their freedom of speech through being a "blog" whilst using the other to proclaim they are a trustworthy journalistic "news" website. It's either one or the other, you can't be both (not by my definition of "blog", at least).
Kotaku has also posted large amounts of rumour-based, tactless garbage over the years. Kotaku is, in my eyes, no better than your average gossip girl: It's authors post whatever they hell they want that is at least somewhat relevant to gaming, without actually checking to see if it's factual or not.
too long; didn't read: Kotaku (and Gawker in general) has been a shoddily run website/business for years now, and yet too many websites continue to use it as a viable "source" for news when, quite frankly, I don't think it is. Once upon a time perhaps, but certainly not now.
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