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gimli

Marietta, GA, US

CBS is going to buy CNET.

Who knows what havoc they are going to wreak?

http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9944...

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Bex 5 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 5 months ago (13 minutes after post)

Does this mean that they are going to turn help.com into a bad sit-com?

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An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 5 months ago (14 minutes after post)

Huh. So what happens next?

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Bex 5 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 5 months ago (15 minutes after post)

Hey Ace,

Time will tell!

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An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 5 months ago (16 minutes after post)

Aw. Sigh.

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Bex 5 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 5 months ago (56 minutes after post)

OR may be neglected more even than now?

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Bex 5 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 5 months ago (1 hour, 15 minutes after post)

Fingers crossed it will be a good thing.

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gimli 1 #
Marietta, GA, US | 1 year, 5 months ago (4 hours, 29 minutes after post)

My fear is that help.com will cease to exist. I think that this site probably does not generate much revenue (how many of us click on the banner ads?) and so CBS is going to probably consider it a waste of whatever resources are currently being devoted to it. That may also be why we don’t have professional moderators, as well. I bet that CNET would be losing money if they paid for someone to have it as their full time project.

In any event, time will tell.

Commander Ikari 234 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 5 months ago (14 hours, 24 minutes after post)

I don’t like the sound of this.

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ɐʇɐɯɹǝɟ.Suc 5 #
Luton, I1, GB | 1 year, 5 months ago (3 days, 1 hour after post)

*is scared*

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An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 5 months ago (6 days, 2 hours after post)

-Sophie- wrote:
Where Help.com is concerned this can be good.

This site cant make up what it is trying to be, badly mannaged and not taken seriously by cnet at all.

Under new ownership the site may get a more possitive development and management.

CBS isn’t much better where it comes to managing website communities. I was a part of a prior CBS community on their own website, instead of fixing the problems with trolls, they closed the community, the regular users weren’t taken into consideration, it’s not about loyalty, it’s about money. If it cost them more money to develop and manage then they are profiting from it, then it’s bye bye Help.

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Luton, I1, GB | 1 year, 5 months ago (6 days, 2 hours after post)

I agree that this site isn’t as devoted to as the other sites by cnet, but I mean it is still here. And we have admins and volunteer mods. I think most people like cbs would take it even less seriously.

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An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 3 months ago (2 months after post)

Since they have intellectual rights to the content could they publish it, poems etc.

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An Undisclosed Location | 4 months, 3 weeks ago (1 year, 1 month after post)

what a great retrospective this is. A year ago we were trying to assure each other that everything was going to be better, and what did we get? An overworked admin who passed his job off to a donothing admin who broke everything about the site we enjoyed. Way to be, CBS, way to be.

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Nante 26 #
An Unknown Location | 4 months ago (1 year, 1 month after post)

Dr. Foreman wrote:
what a great retrospective this is. A year ago we were trying to assure each other that everything was going to be better, and what did we get? An overworked admin who passed his job off to a donothing admin who broke everything about the site we enjoyed. Way to be, CBS, way to be.

Oh how we were fooled…

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Commander Ikari 234 #
An Undisclosed Location | 4 months ago (1 year, 1 month after post)

That’s the way the money goes, pop goes the weasel.

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Luck of the Irish 116 #
An Undisclosed Location | 2 months, 2 weeks ago (1 year, 3 months after post)

CBS already owns help.com

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