Got an interesting email the other day from randomfaca. In it, he writes:
Oh buddy, we’re censored on more than just RaceDepartment.
We’re blocked on the Project CARS forum, as mods are quick to delete any post linking to us:
Linking to us on r/SimRacing requires a moderator approval. A recent post I made on the Porsche 962c for Assetto Corsa didn’t appear until several hours had passed:
And yes, we’re censored on RaceDepartment:
I’ll leave it to the comments section to figure out why.
I really enjoy your articles, and this blog became a daily stop for me.
You guys are the Jimquisition of sim racing community in my opinion. It’s a true “by sim racers for sim racers” blog, no bias opinions, no marketing-behind-the-courtain bs but the naked truth of what’s going on in this niche of gaming industry.
Keep it up, don’t ever change.
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Anyone would think you’re saying things that some people don’t want other people reading about!
I mean, if this site were as benignly stupid as various moderators like to point out, you would think they might credit their own users with the ability to make that observation for themselves, rather than forcibly hiding this site from them…
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Hilarious that Bram from RD would call you a “pretend journalist”. He needed to go begging to reddit to get people to write for his site.
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Did this happen after the AC RD League fiasco write up?
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Most likely. Most people in sim racing got to know about the troubles of that league through PRC. They just got pissed that other website reported that league problem, because anyone who read those articles could see no one made up anything, as you could confirm it checking the discussion boards and penalty given over at RD.
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I am a big fan of this site and hope it never changes.
When I want to post a link I use link shortner like: https://goo.gl/
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racedepartment just got added to the list of sim racing faggots
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People are used to spam websites just for advertising purpose more than for linking something interesting. When linking turns into abusing, there you’ll find the hammer. More than censor a website (you can’t really censor a website, since the URL still visible), you are avoiding the linking so you won’t give more “clicks” to the spammers. Who want to visit this website, will still visit it IMO.
It happens on Race Department, it happened on AC forum and iRacing forum, it happened on PCARS forum, it happened on VR.net… this website is “censored” on many website, not because of the contents, but because there’s ****holes who are spamming the url!
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The spam was made by the mods to have an excuse to ban linking.
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Nope, because on Race Department we had people who have been already a pain in the arse. The point is that those kids doesn’t understand that by spamming they are only giving a bad reputation to the site spammed. For this reason this website is now labeled a trolls blog and ignored by most.
When you do “advertising” you must play smart.. we can’t have kids screaming our name and being taken seriously. Well done!
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Damn, lost some respect for RD now… You guys need to get a forum going.
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I upvote that Synthbent715, need a forum, was about time a true journalist to stand up. Congrats James and your team, the more they hate you, the more motives to stand up.
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