Meneame's ban day

Or why you should remove any link to meneame and point to apezz.

A few days ago one of the most popular Spanish Internet site, meneame, became sick. This was a site I used to visit quite a lot, but which I visited less day after day. In fact I stopped visiting it for long terms and right now, after what happened (let's call it meneame's sickness) I decided to switch to a better place: meneame isn't worth my time anymore.

What happened with meneame? Nothing new at all, some users claimed that the admins weren't fair at all, not publishing interesting news because the admins didn't like it.
It was hard to probe so, and admins also didn't say it so clearly. The way admins had to get rid of the news they didn't want was easy: they just applied "meneame's rules" as they pleased. The way they applied "the rules" was something like this:

• This news is good (good= I think the same way): lets publish it.
• I don't like this other one...mmm... let's see if there's something wrong: aha!, the title doesn't correspond 100% with the article!!

(The examples above are an aproximation, not 100% veridic, but quite close to the facts)

As you can imagine this wasn't approved by the community (the non-admin users, which is the most of the users), so some users used to complaint.
Then a popular user submitted a story which was rejected. He then complaint, and finally the admins banned him from the site. As you can see it wasn't fair at all so a lot of users posted a list telling which were the admins that rejected this user's news.

As you can guess that didn't pleased the admins, which then started banning anyone publishing such list, so at the end of the day more than 400 users were banned.

Some of these users were very active ones, sending a lot of news, which in fact is the engine of the site (to publish news). So the site creator decided to undo the massive ban (his business was going down quite fast), keeping only one user banned: the one who started it all.

I never had a user on such community, but a lot of people moved to apezz because there aren't such injustices.

Perhaps you think my vision isn't objetive at all, but to me such site was going down month after month, so this just speeded it up a bit.

One last advice, move from meneame, because if you still stay there they'll think they did it right, so this is the only way we have to tell them we don't approve what they did.

Try apezz (from where I got the image): You'll like it (if you understand spanish)


Update: I just removed all the links I had to meneame: You should try it!!, it's sooo relaxing :-)