I've been on a lot of web sites and the worse web site for me, hands-down, is GameTrailers. For a variety of reasons why I dislike GameTrailers is due to performance, features, bad or lack of moderation, and of course the community.
Performance
Last year the web site received one of the worse redesigns in gaming web site history. Instead of seeing features get added, or existed features get improved, useful and common features such as blogs got removed. Load times became god awful on that site. There were times where it would take 30 seconds to load from one page to another. And there were other time were it would the web page wouldn't load at all. The web site received its redesign last year, and nothing still didn't get improved.
Features
Before hand, the web site had a feature that allows you to keep track of your forum posts and that got removed along with the blogs as I mention earlier. The profiles, which was an actual web page, now just downgraded to a little sub-menu that just has your information about yourself and your settings. And there also the amount of type of forums, there's way too many of them. Sure we have forums dedicated to certain platforms, but have you ever heard of a "Announcement Forums"? Yes, a forum dedicated to the announcement of games. How do the engineers not remove some of the useless forums, when at the same time, they're removing features that are actually useful to the user?
The Community
All communities from whatever gaming web sites are bad, but let me get into specifics about GameTrailers. The majority of the GameTrailers community has quite possibility the biggest band of trollish ass-kissers out there. Almost everyone in that community are kissing each other's asses for opinions that they agree with, even if those people are some of the worse users known to man. I've seen users call others "f@g," "b***h," "whining b***h," "a$$hole," "stupid," "c**k-suckers," etc, etc. Despite the behaviour, bias fanboys would call them "good users," and that's being said by users that are generally fanboys for Sony, Microsoft, or Nintendo. So you can see the irony and the implication as to why they would call those a$$holes good users, and of course, the three mods that are on that site are pretty much the same as everyone else.
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