# Fucking CNET... Just because you bought it doesn't mean you have to fuck it up! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 16, 2012, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-cnet-just-because-you-bought-it-doesnt-mean-you-have-to-fuck-it-up/612983 "2012-02-16T00:39:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2012, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-cnet-just-because-you-bought-it-doesnt-mean-you-have-to-fuck-it-up/612983/1 "2012-02-16T00:39:59Z")
FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK!!! In theory, I have no objection to bigger, more successful websites swallowing up smaller, also successful websites…that’s how business operates in the real world and in the digital. Fine. But CNET keeps eating my good sites, sites that made sense, were easy to navigate, and were not obnoxiously bogged down with endless extraneous garbage. First, it was Versiontracker. WAH… Gave up going there entirely after CNET mucked it all up and now they’ve eaten my beloved MacFIxit!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. It used to be [a nice, sensible BBEdit/vBulletin-style website that was easy on the eyes and the brain.](http://web.archive.org/web/20080112125807/http://www.macfixitforums.com/?) Now, of course, it looks like [this](http://reviews.cnet.com/macfixit/?tag=mfiredir). Go ahead and eat it, fine. Take the ad revenue, take the credit… BUT STOP FUCKING IT UP by BLENDING it with the rest of your fucking crap! It does not HELP me get what I want, it makes it a frustrating nightmare! I don’t want to search fucking CNET I want to search MACFIXIT! So thanks for making two of my favorite sites fucking useless crap I will never turn to again. OH FUCK IT I JUST HATE YOU FUCK OFF FUCK!!! ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2012, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-cnet-just-because-you-bought-it-doesnt-mean-you-have-to-fuck-it-up/612983/2 "2012-02-16T04:33:58Z")
Versiontracker and Macfixit were great sites. I used them almost daily back in the OS 9 era. I didn’t fully realize that I had moved on to other sites until this pitting. Cnet blew it…their own stuff used to be more user-friendly and helpful too. ---
**Author:** ![Normal\_Phase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Normal\_Phase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Normal_Phase)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2012, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-cnet-just-because-you-bought-it-doesnt-mean-you-have-to-fuck-it-up/612983/3 "2012-02-16T05:42:24Z")
What the fuck. I don’t know CNET or MacFixIt from a hole in the ground, but just clicking on those two links and you know this is a well deserved pitting. Good lord. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2012, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-cnet-just-because-you-bought-it-doesnt-mean-you-have-to-fuck-it-up/612983/4 "2012-02-16T06:17:32Z")
No Web site has ever been kicked in the nuts as hard as jumptheshark. My condolences notwithstanding. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2012, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-cnet-just-because-you-bought-it-doesnt-mean-you-have-to-fuck-it-up/612983/5 "2012-02-16T07:10:16Z")
It’s not even there, really. They bought the name, ate the content and digested it, shit it out and moved on to other things. There’s no “there” there. ARGH!!! ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2012, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-cnet-just-because-you-bought-it-doesnt-mean-you-have-to-fuck-it-up/612983/6 "2012-02-16T07:20:10Z")
A lot of the posters and moderators from the macfixit forums wound up here: [http://www.finetunedmac.com/forums/](http://www.finetunedmac.com/forums/) ---
**Author:** ![lazybratsche](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ba8739/32.png) [@lazybratsche](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lazybratsche)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2012, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-cnet-just-because-you-bought-it-doesnt-mean-you-have-to-fuck-it-up/612983/7 "2012-02-16T13:49:49Z")
Cnet also did even worse to TV Tome, which was sort of like a very early Wiki about every TV show and series. They bought it, threw away all of the user-created content, and redirected the URL to some bullshit TV guide type thing. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Dord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3be4f8/32.png) [@The\_Dord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Dord)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2012, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-cnet-just-because-you-bought-it-doesnt-mean-you-have-to-fuck-it-up/612983/8 "2012-02-16T21:40:54Z")
> [@Stoid](#): > > FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK!!! > > In theory, I have no objection to bigger, more successful websites swallowing up smaller, also successful websites…that’s how business operates in the real world and in the digital. Fine. > > But CNET keeps eating my good sites, sites that made sense, were easy to navigate, and were not obnoxiously bogged down with endless extraneous garbage. > > First, it was Versiontracker. WAH… Gave up going there entirely after CNET mucked it all up and now they’ve eaten my beloved MacFIxit!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. > > It used to be [a nice, sensible BBEdit/vBulletin-style website that was easy on the eyes and the brain.](http://web.archive.org/web/20080112125807/http://www.macfixitforums.com/?) > > Now, of course, it looks like [this](http://reviews.cnet.com/macfixit/?tag=mfiredir). > > Go ahead and eat it, fine. Take the ad revenue, take the credit… BUT STOP FUCKING IT UP by BLENDING it with the rest of your fucking crap! It does not HELP me get what I want, it makes it a frustrating nightmare! I don’t want to search fucking CNET I want to search MACFIXIT! > > So thanks for making two of my favorite sites fucking useless crap I will never turn to again. > > OH FUCK IT I JUST HATE YOU FUCK OFF > > FUCK!!! Whoa whoa whoa, you have no right to complain buddy if you made a website like [this](http://helpstoidstopthepain.info.tm/). ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2012, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-cnet-just-because-you-bought-it-doesnt-mean-you-have-to-fuck-it-up/612983/9 "2012-02-18T03:02:53Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > No Web site has ever been kicked in the nuts as hard as jumptheshark. > > My condolences notwithstanding. I also remember Jump the Shark going down the crapper. However, I just now stumbled onto this site, [http://www.bonethefish.com/](http://www.bonethefish.com/) , which is pretty much the same thing. It also includes stuff like music and websites.