Operation Disrespectful Nod and Rebuild MasterThread
This thread is for all ongoing work in relation to operation disrespectful nod and operation rebuild.
Please place all operation rebuild stuff in here as well as writing emails for both advertiser pulls and for developer outreach/or in support of new sites is a twofold part of fixing our industry, doing one without the other just doesn't make sense. If you are gonna send emails, do both.
ODN
http://wiki.gamergate.me/index.php?title=Operation_Disrespectful_Nod
Rebuild
http://wiki.gamergate.me/index.php?title=Rebuild_Initiative
Below is a repost of the original OP for ODN, written by AcidMan. Love him or hate him the OP was decent so we kept it for now.
Archive of original thread
https://archive.is/2mkq7
From original:
MASTER DISRESPECTFUL NOD LIST
https://gitgud.net/gamergate/gamergateop/tree/master/Operations/Operation-Disrespectful-Nod
http://wiki.gamergate.me/index.php?title=Projects:Operation_Disrespectful_Nod/Advertisers
MASTER DISRESPECTFUL NOD LIST
Backup archives: https://archive.today/6iAQo https://archive.today/wx6dZ
I've been waiting a while to make this thread because I needed to gather some resources first. Getting the board stable took up all the time I would normally use digging advertisers, so expect this list to be updated over the coming weeks.
First, the assessment.
As some of you know, I was the person who volunteered to scout the journo sites back in January and gather new lists of advertisers. Because of that activity, I have a very in-depth perspective on just exactly how effective Disrespectful Nod has been.
#GamerGate, you don't know what the hell you all have done.
Let me put this in perspective for you all.
The journo sites, at the end of January when the updates were finished? The original O:DN advertiser list that we targeted with emails through all of September, October, November, and December? You killed them all.
Every. Single. Normal. Advertiser. Pulled. Out.
All of them. At every site. The updated ad list was 100% new targets across the board.
Do you know where Gawkers "seven digits" came from? Gawker's main site was a WASTELAND of advertisements when I went back to do their update. Where once were ad boxes and pop-ups galore, there was only a single native ad link. ONE.
We left Gawker fucking sterile.
What happened was what we had expected to happen. After all the drama by aGGro over Intel dropping Gamasutra, the remaining advertisers saw the writing on the wall.
None of those who were left renewed their ad contracts with the journo sites at the end of the year. NONE. Not even INTEL. On Jan 1 they dropped Gamasutra AGAIN and didn't tell anyone a thing about it.
Quiet ad pulls that stripped most of the sites of their remaining income and forced them into using tons and tons of Google aggregated ads and native advertisements (product shilling articles.)
FROM THE WAY PEOPLE TALK YOU ALL HAVE NO FUCKING IDEA HOW MUCH DAMAGE DISRESPECTFUL NOD HAS CAUSED.
The journo sites are surviving on life support, and have been for months!
Now is not the time to even CONSIDER stopping the email train. O:DN was, is, and shall remain the sword that slays the dragon.
This thread will be stickied to facilitate daily email goals targeting advertisers who remain. Many of these will be aggregated ads that we can only marginally affect - but we have options there also. Native ads we can destroy without mercy.
Carry on, #GamerGate. We are fucking winning this war. Emails are a grind, but we're due to level up. :3