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Yodariquo said:

I can see aspro's doing some write-up on the background of the site, and it's good to have down, but this is one area where I'm not sure what angle to take it.  Unfortunately everything we were doing was dependent on everywhere else sucking.  It's not really the image we want to portray to be the holier-than-thou GameSpot sucks site.

I'm thinking perhaps to generalize it, if possible (not name names, so to speak).  Just bringing this up in here as a discussion piece for now of the best way to handle it.  Until we get a consensus, it's best just to continue with the full description and work from there.

EDIT: On the snippets, I forgot about those.  I just wrote a quick sentence in for the About page as a start.

Yeah, I was just writing a quick origins of the site paragraph for the general About.  I initially had it without the names but it was getting convuluted.  But, like you said, this is a wiki-type approach so modify at will -- you won't be stepping on my toes whatsoever.