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Corporate Errata
The Wikipedia entry for IGN should theoretically be segregated for IGN Entertainment, the corporate entity and IGN.com the website. If you do not know the difference, please only refer to IGN as IGN.com. Thanks!
- I'd always thought that IGN meant Internet Gaming Network, is this wrong? JayKeaton 16:53, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- No IGN's official name is just IGN. Also the corporate identity is IGN, they are one and the same. Jedi6 21:18, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
Topic Merge
Is there a reason why there's an entire category of stubs devoted to different aspects of IGN, when the main article is so small to begin with? If no one has any real objections, I'm thinking about merging everything into the main (this) article. - Lifefeed 19:28, Nov 30, 2004 (UTC)
- It looks like there is enough content to make a seprate article for IGN's message board system. Can I unmerge it? Reub2000 12:41, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)
unlock
Please unlock, I wanted to add more information
- Just suggest the changes you want to make here, and if there's consensus for them they will be added to the article. --fvw* 00:38, 2005 Jan 31 (UTC)
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- Fix the first paragraph of the vesti section so it isn't shown as code.Reub2000 01:54, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Protect Again
Not long after this was unprotected, it was vandalised. I don't know why this was unprotected in the first place. Reub2000 03:48, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Smarter Moderators?
"IGN has moderators who are better than the regular users whether they are Insiders or Outsiders. Moderators are frequently smarter than the average user and ban users simply to improve the userbase population."
However true this might be, isn't it in need of some re-phrasing?
I totally agree. This is worded a LITTLE offensively.
I've been on IGN for six years now and I can tell you that this is complete idiocy. Probably entered in by one of IGN's own sub-par mods. Mods on IGN are exactly like all the other users. You get your share of good ones and you get more than your share of idiots. For every moderator that is reasonable and fair there is one who is childish and petty. (The frequently unmodded and remodded Namlas comes to mind for the latter.)
My best friend is a moderator. (We're all so proud.) JaredW! 12:15, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
100 Million posts
Today (April 16th) the IGN boards reached 100 million posts.
Yes, please edit this in
Criticism
I have another high critic about IGN: the reviews. IGN ign likes to give high scores to many games, not justifing the defects of a game properly. --Mateusc 00:19, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I would say thier reviews are more than fair and your blanket assessment is incorrect.
Do you think you could add a list of the only games to ever recieve a perfect 10?
Unprotected
I've unprotected to see if the vandals have given up. Hopefully the other editors haven't. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 14:17, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
Whoever that wrote the last paragraph is probably in ESL. I will edit the article when I have time and fix the numerous mistakes in it.
Icons section
Is there a reason this was removed? Mga 00:30, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Vestibule
I fail to see how a section on the biggest board on IGN isn't relevant. Mga 4 July 2005 22:43 (UTC)
- Since IGN Vestibule redirects here, I am adding this section back in. Mga 05:16, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
Lock again
Heavy amounts of vandalism, also this keeps getting deleted:
The IGNCB
The IGNCB, or IGN Community Board, opened on September 11th, 2000, for "non-video game related content" that was beginning to appear on the video game discussion boards. Renowned for their high brow wit and strong elitism the IGNCB are one of the most hated boards on IGN, although the members of the board seem take pride in this.
This page will be locked unless the vandalism stops now. DJ Clayworth 20:27, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
Can someone please tell me why this article is locked? I never thought of IGN as a particularly controversial website, and I don't see anything mentioned in the article itself. orporg 01:31, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
It was most likely locked, because the users of The Vestibule find it fun to come over here and mess it up, every now and then.
Big-boards.com
The article says According to Big-boards.com, the IGN Boards are ranked 3, behind FaceTheJury at 2 and GaiaOnline at 1. There are currently over 100,000,000 posts. But is big-boards.com really a recognized authority about message boards? My initial observation was no, and the reference in the article seemed almost like advertising for an otherwise relatively unknown top sites list.
Yes, big-boards.com has a ranking system, and appears to rank some boards, it is not entirely clear to me what criteria they use by default (and how valid or widely recognized their listing is), they seem to keep database entries on number of posts and Alexa ranking.. I wonder how they get their information, especially for sites like Slashdot, which I have not seen publishing statistics like post counts. Are FaceTheJury and GaiOnline really more popular than IGN? GaiaOnline has an Alexa ranking of 1,590, and FaceTheJury 4,654, which both pale in comparison to IGN's 239.
Big-boards.com has no Wikipedia article and an Alexa ranking of 21,402. I suppose it may be a recognized authority and I missed it somehow, but surely having a listing that includes IGN in it doesn't alone mean it should appear in an encyclopedia.. thoughts? --Mysidia (talk) 01:55, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
In-article extern links
This article violates Wikipedia policy by having many extern links within the article proper. Extern links in the article are only allowed as cites [like this]. This article should trim all the extern links or changing them to cites where appropriate. — Frecklefoot | Talk 18:56, September 8, 2005 (UTC)
Line 100 says Meneo is greater than IGN according to a popularity poll but it doesn't cite the source. If someone does not give a source for this I will be removing it in 1 week - Amazon10x 21:37, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
Vestibule culture
Major events of the vestibule added and explained. Fads also changed so that it's less self-advertising and more about the most major occurrences.
NOLM
I think NOLM, a Vestibule fad, needs more description to it. It is one of the few Vesti fads, and thus should be explained.
Non-script Riots
The Vestibule riots section has very little about riots that weren't caused by scripts. Don't you think they deserve recognition as well? Nothing may beat the "Steak!!!" riot, but I know they existed. Off the top of my head, though, I can't think of any. I'm not sure if there was a riot about ferrets, though.
Name removal
Some editors at IGN have requested they only appear on the staff list (one has asked to remain off the list). This has been done.
- Sorry but a posting from an anonymous user isn't proof that they don't appear here. And even if they did that doesn't mean they can be removed because this is an encyclopedia so the truth stays over what the editors may want. Jedi6 05:11, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
The Spam Board
It is a yearly tradition that the IGN Board admins open up a seprate board to let the users spam. Since this is one of the biggest traditions, I would like to see this added as soon as possible.
Edit: I added the "Spam Board" information under Vestibule. Feel free to move it whereever you desire.
IGN vs. Wikipedia
My friends are all frequent posters on IGN, so I always here about it. Here are some interesting parallels between Wikipedia and IGN:
- Wikipedia's Jimbo can be compared to IGN's Tal.
- Wikipedia's "Cheers" is like IGN's "Woot!"
- Wikipedia's "Village Pump" is the civilized version of IGN's "Vestibule."
- Wikipedia's "Administrators" are like IGN's "Moderators"
- Wikipedia's "Vandalists" are IGN's "spammers"
- Wikipedia's "Newbies" are IGN's "Noobs"
I agree that there was no point in writing this section. I just wanted to point stuff out. JaredW! 18:06, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
- You probably can make those paralles to any thing. Jedi6-(need help?) 21:44, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
Yea...you can compare them even to Gamespot!
- >x<ino 23:00, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
Actually, it's 'noobs', not the previous spelling.
nah, it's n00bs! The O is replaced with number zero
- >x<ino 00:28, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
IGN Name
Was IGN known as "International Gaming Network" for awhile, or am I crazy? Jamesinclair 23:04, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
- You are crazy. Jedi6-(need help?) 00:24, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
- The I stood for "Imagine." The acronym doesn't currently stand for anything Tromboneguy0186 02:30, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
Yo keep dat critisism page alright?
I'm a gamer..I know what the public talks about..what dat stuff says is true..a'ight?
