Gleemax = Enworld

[Mark CMG]

Still, I can't remember a moment in the last year that I've felt more sad, more alone, and more up against the impossible than I do right now.

Sounds like someone hasn't taken his Gleemax.


Seriously, Michael, don't let it worry you. Many people will probably use Gleemax, EN World, and whatever else they currently use to gather their info. In fact, you will need to prepare for the influx of new people once all the links from Gleemax to EN World are added to people's MaxPages and the myriad of mentions EN World will get in people's GleeLogs.

It's a floorwax! No, it's a dessert topping!

That's right, Babs! Gleemax is both a floorwax and a desert topping!

I think you might be mistaking it for Kids in the Hall: Braincandy.

I see now that several people are making mention of that. I feel bad that I had forgotten all about it. I feel like a Foley-come-lately. I wonder how many Helens agree about Gleemax?

 

[Ry]

Here's one thing that EN World has that Gleemax won't have: Strong, capable, and attentive moderation. WotC, as much as I love them, can't enforce even the Grandma rule consistently (let alone the on-topic rule or the civility rule), and I can't imagine them being able to do so on Gleemax.

 

[Cam Banks]

I can't wait to set up my own Gleemax page so that I can get hundreds of half-naked female "gamers" friend-requesting me or telling me to go to their website since Gleemax won't let them show me all the really good "adventures."

Cheers,
Cam

 

[Michael Morris]

Here's one thing that EN World has that Gleemax won't have: Strong, capable, and attentive moderation. WotC, as much as I love them, can't enforce even the Grandma rule consistently (let alone the on-topic rule or the civility rule), and I can't imagine them being able to do so on Gleemax.

If you halved the age of the posters here I imagine Piratecat & co would have a similar amount of trouble. The WizOs do a very good job moderating that monster of a board - please don't diss them.

 

[Schmoe]

Minor OT Quibble Alert!!!

I disagree. WotC has received so much flack on the DI for giving half-answers and being evasive that I don't think they should go that way. Specifically, with the DI, every time WotC gives a partial answer or says, "wait and see", people accuse them of not actually having any sort of plan. By saying, "NDA" or "FTC rules", they show they have a plan, they just have reason to not share it.

Personally, I appreciate the "FTC rules" approach a lot more. I find it shows respect for me and the fact that I can understand the way business works. It's also less manipulative in the sense that they are not trying to dodge questions or hide (even minor) information.

That said, he probably have handled himself somewhat better, but it wasn't horrible by any means -- especially if he is either new to the role or is otherwise unacustomed to giving interviews.

Oh, I definitely agree that I appreciate when someone tells me why they cannot divulge more information on a particular topic, and I'm by no means raking him over the coals on this one. But, I also think that, after you've told someone what you cannot say, you should then try to emphasize something positive that you can say. I think the example that really jumped out at me was this:

You mentioned that with Magic Online you have a thriving business in selling digital objects. Can you characterize its size?

I can tell you that we have over 300,000 accounts, and I'm not allowed to give you revenue numbers; because Hasbro is a publicly traded corporation, there are limits to what I'm allowed to say.

ICV2 is asking for a characterization of the business size, and he effectively ends the answer with "Not gonna tell you." It would have been good to follow that up with something like "But we are happy with how the business has been progressing and are looking to continue to grow it."

Sure, it's press-release vaguerise, but people say that stuff for a reason

It also didn't help that the example I mentioned followed a one word answer to the first question, and the first thing he said to the next question was "We're hitting the limits of what I'm allowed to talk about publicly." It makes people wonder why they're reading the interview.

Anyway, overall the interview was still pretty good and informative.

 

[Schmoe]

I can't wait to set up my own Gleemax page so that I can get hundreds of half-naked female "gamers" friend-requesting me or telling me to go to their website since Gleemax won't let them show me all the really good "adventures."

Cheers,
Cam

Now that's some role-playing I can really get into!

 

[Mistwell]

I don't normally don't take the role of doomsayer, but...

So here I am reading over the press release that details WotC's new Gleemax doohicky and I'm thinking to myself...they're putting themselves into direct competition with Enworld. All of the features described in the press release, as well as a quick tour of the site seem to make it out to be everything that enworld already is.

The expressed intent within the press release even states that they want to consolidate the online gamer community.

This can't be good for enworld, can it?

If that was their intent, then they are being a bit dumb about it. It would have been a heck of a lot cheaper to just offer to buy EnWorld from Morrus, and pay him and the mods and other people who work on EnWorld some money to continue to work for EnWorld for the next year.

 

[Mercule]

Oh, I definitely agree that I appreciate when someone tells me why they cannot divulge more information on a particular topic, and I'm by no means raking him over the coals on this one. But, I also think that, after you've told someone what you cannot say, you should then try to emphasize something positive that you can say.

Fair enough. And, I pretty well agree with that notion. It sounds like we really aren't all that far apart on this one, after all.

:group hug:

 

[Schmoe]

:group hug:

We should really get together on Gleemax with Cam Banks on this one

 

[Ry]

If you halved the age of the posters here I imagine Piratecat & co would have a similar amount of trouble. The WizOs do a very good job moderating that monster of a board - please don't diss them.

Sorry, I meant "can't" in a resource-availability way, not a talent-availability way, and I wasn't clear on that. So I agree with you 100%. I just don't see the resource problem changing with Gleemax.

WotC's boards has a lot of great, talented, hardworking mods.