I recommend that everyone take a deep breath and ignore help.com.

Yeah, that's probably for the best. Thanks for the advice.

It is clearly not a site meant for you. It is clearly a last ditch attempt at salvaging whatever tiny bit of good will they might be able to get. It is clearly lame and filled with over protective moderators.

Just ignore it.

CNET is not paying attention. Nobody is paying attention. Posting lots of trash on Help may make you feel better, but it is only making work for some poor underpaid community admin who is worried about losing his job anyways.

And to be fair, as with most bad community based sites, its not the entirely the site thats crap, its the users.

as soon i saw the yellow color scheme, i never went back

Reposting this:

http://flickr.com/photos/benbrown/2333557393/

You have to understand that the same way Consumating was for some folks and not for others, Help has some loyal fans and some people who think it sucks. For some people, Help.com IS THEIR Consumating. Let's not ruin it for them!

I think we would all ignore it, but the fact that Consumating's URL redirects to help.com makes us all angry, and makes us want to troll like there's no tomorrow. Our home has been destroyed, we need to destroy someone else's.

I won't troll them, but they seriously should have just 404'd consumating.

It's funny because there are like two users there that are excited that a bunch of smartasses showed up and thought that we livened the place up.

I guess every community gets a bit stagnant.

Ahahahaha Celisse.

That would've been just right. Sigh.

If they hadn't redirected, I'd never have found help.com.

Hey Ben, are there any plans to make it possible for us to embed flash swf files into some kind of post on here? I like making little toys in actionscript and always wished I could throw a few of them on my old consumating profile.

The stupid redirection page is/was all "Sorry about Consumating, please join Help.com!" So then, if they asked us to join, how can we just simply ignore them? It's a war with CNET, and Help.com is the first battle.

Srsly tho... some of those people need some help. My blunt honesty should do them a lot of good. Or will at least provide ME some entertainment.

I must admit, the temptation is there. The redirect dis is grand in scope, and we don't, as a community, suffer fools gladly. And Holy God, is help.com annoying, especially on this night of all nights. But I guess I'm prepared to follow Ben's lead on this and if he wants us in our High-Road boots, so fucking be it.

"Man, Smash Brothers is awesome." = ninja smoke bomb.

and suddenly ben disappears and the subject changes! BAMF.

Stoned? I stopped being stoned a week ago and transcended to a new level of existence powered by energy drinks, pre-noon beer, and smoked meat.

tonight, I had wild boar chili for dinner.

then, crispy raisin ice cream.

BEN BROWN, WHY DID YOU DO THIS TO US :[ :[

Yeah, they are. There starting to trash the execs. Where's my popcorn.

20:35chipmunk!
i am not surprised
20:35chipmunk!
heck.. consumating was not really moderated for a long time
20:35chipmunk!
so basically anything went on... and was said/posted/implied

OK, I just chugged a DIET ROCKSTAR and am on my way out to the PUREVOLUME.COM house at SXSW.

I'll puke on the street for you guys at 2AM CST!

Trolling takes too much energy for me.

I'm not going to participate, I'm just going to stand back and watch with amusement, as usual.

TOO LATE! I already asked them how to remove semen from a laptop screen! (And Hurry! Before my boss gets back and needs his laptop!)

YOU GUYS are as pathetic as the WBS folks after I pulled the plug on them.

I got an answer! ISOPROPYL ALCOHOL!

ohh their drama is funny

I am now wearing a temporary red bull tattoo on my ass and drinking a tea/vodka cocktail in a building made of plastic wrap and shaped like the red bull logo.

The drinks are free. The music is bad. This is sxsw.

Indeed. Everyone else is going to ignore help.com. It would be pretty lame to be complaining about the suckiness of a site that nobody knows or cares about. I fear that most of the people there are just angry ex-consumators trolling.

Not only were there candles at CNET, somebody got a roving bagpipe honor guard to come and play "Amazing Grace".

Consu-sendoff indeed.

oh man, you people...

THANKS BEN AND JESSE FOR BEING AWESOME FOREVER.

ARrrgh, I was just exposed... I need to be re-unexposed so I can ignore it.

The sad thing is that Help.com isn't a terrible idea. The redirect is just bad "customer service" on CNet's part.

@Jesse: Of course. How did we miss you? There was me, Machined, Combustible Monkey, 18percentgrey, lady oracle, a formersumater, and somebody I'm forgetting right now.

ok, seen it now. sorry i missed the fun :(

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