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Radium

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Jan 6, 2003, 05:47 PM
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Actually, I think it is Crono. I was talking to him thorugh email asking what DDL was doing. I told him he should post something like he replied on JCF. He said:

Thank you for your feedback, The reasons we dislike J2O, are its overmoddedness: You can't even say the words **** or hell, despite the fact that they are in the game itself, plus if anyone shows any displeasure about anything on J2O, the post is locked or deleated, usually by ShadowGpW, heck, its worse than that, if ShadowGpW doesnt agree with you or is in a bad mood, or if one person says somthing off topic, it's closed or deleated. Another reason is because 99% of the Jazz2 population seem to be completly brainwashed to the point that I can't critisize it without getting flamed, a good example of this are shortly after I came back after a year or more of not playing JJ2 and was in a game I hosted talking to some people about where the heck J2C went they toled me about J2O, and kind of as a way of saying how old I was :P I said somthing along the lines of, yeah I remeber way back then when J2O was nothing, I may have slipped in the discription 'sucked' in there as well, but they imideatly start say things like "how can you say that!", I repeated how it USED to suck, and theyy admitted that, but they had been so blinded by their idolization (ok mabey thats to string a word) of J2O that they didn't even completly see what I was saying. Another occerance of something similar is on my old Jazz Jackrabbit 2, web site in the Links section, I had a small revew/description of each site, in the J2O link I said A cool site with tons of downloads, a cool forum, but an ugly layout; In my guestbook I get the following: "J2O has a very good layout. There is no trouble reaching anything at all." whats wrong with this? first, a guestbook is supposed to be comments about the site its on, not how great another site it, and second, I never said anything about the functionality of the site (though it could be A LOT better if I do say so myself) I just said I found it ugly.
our (mine in particular) reasons for disliking J2O. I invision I jazz2 community site with a nice looking, functional (not full of broken sections/links) layout (though I DO NOT hate J2O because of its layout, its just somthing that could be greatly imporved); that encourages diversity, and doesn't make it impossible for another large fansite to exist; isn't controlled by controll freaks, and respects freedom of opinion and speech (at a reasonable level).
They say that you are free to stay away from J2O, true, if you arn't part of the JJ2 community. They say you are free to make your own website, this is also true, but no one will come. Don't say its because J2O is better, the site itself requires almost no work besides the originaly coding, hosting fees and, moderating, as the content is entirely user generated, and even if one were to somehow copy every single download from J2O onto another site, people would still go to J2O, because, well, its J2O. We at DDL feel that, at this point the only way to solve this problem is to either forcefully convince J2O to change its ways, or to shut them down, or atleast direct people away from them, and start a new site from the ashes. So there you have it; I would greatly aprriciate to here what you ahev to say in response to this email, thanks again for your feedback, and your time.
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