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Post by
Izichial
Allakhazam was for a long time probably the champion of _extensive_ information, but the site has always been decorated like a chistmas cake, thus slow and cumbersome, and while far from the plague of childish bickering and useless "LOL AWESOME ITEM" that's always been a signature of Thottbot comments there were quite a lot of argument a lá "I sayeth thus!" "I hate you, you're wrong!" "I hate you even more, I'm right!" "Nyuuh Nyuuh!" there as well.
Wowhead has stayed mostly clean and mature from the start; as for "I soloed this loL!" comments I almost always downrate them, the only exception I can think of was a well written guide to soloing things as a warlock by enslaving elite demons and various tips to help with this, plus some good locations for finding such demons.
Always found the moderators and various functionalities of Wowhead relaxed and cunning people when I've been idling at IRC as well. Setting records in "getting a gmail account as spammed with ad mails as possible" with Adys over irc ftw. <3
Post by
mythicpencil
I think thottbot is awful with accuracy. I love wowhead, I can always trust it.
Post by
Miyari
Also, the comments on Wowhead are, without doubt, the best of any site.
Try using Lightheaded some time, and your opinion won't be quite so high. I agree that wowhead has the best forums and good all-around data, but there needs to be some editorial contol on what people put in quest comments...The coordinates for some of the things I've been looking for lately have been way off; seems like someone just picked two random numbers out of their backside and threw them in.
Well, keep in mind that if players are using Lightheaded to read quest comments, they're often not visiting the quest's page on Wowhead. And, if they're not visiting the quest's page, they cannot downrate inaccurate comments. So, unless a Lightheaded user specifically remembers an incorrect comment on a Wowhead page and goes onto the site afterwards to downrate it or make a new post, it's basically killing the opportunity. Also bear in mind that LightHeaded uses a cache of user comments, so an out-of-date cache would result in now downrated comments displaying. In any case, I'm sure you don't seriously expect our staff to review every single comment ever made.
So, no offense, it's not really a very valid complaint about the inaccuracies of an open comment system if you are not taking the very simple methods to correct user's statements or take proper action on any such discrepancies (I can see that you, for example, have not rated a comment in the past week). We do what we can but like any user-built community, we do rely on users. :)
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101989
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Post by
Philmckraken
Also, the comments on Wowhead are, without doubt, the best of any site.
Try using Lightheaded some time, and your opinion won't be quite so high. I agree that wowhead has the best forums and good all-around data, but there needs to be some editorial contol on what people put in quest comments...The coordinates for some of the things I've been looking for lately have been way off; seems like someone just picked two random numbers out of their backside and threw them in.
Well, keep in mind that if players are using Lightheaded to read quest comments, they're often not visiting the quest's page on Wowhead. And, if they're not visiting the quest's page, they cannot downrate inaccurate comments. So, unless a Lightheaded user specifically remembers an incorrect comment on a Wowhead page and goes onto the site afterwards to downrate it or make a new post, it's basically killing the opportunity. Also bear in mind that LightHeaded uses a cache of user comments, so an out-of-date cache would result in now downrated comments displaying. In any case, I'm sure you don't seriously expect our staff to review every single comment ever made.
So, no offense, it's not really a very valid complaint about the inaccuracies of an open comment system if you are not taking the very simple methods to correct user's statements or take proper action on any such discrepancies (I can see that you, for example, have not rated a comment in the past week). We do what we can but like any user-built community, we do rely on users. :)
Busted! I've visted the quest pages many times (because they still contain more useful info than any other WoW site), but I have yet to up/downgrade a single comment, because I didn't know it would actually do anything. (Laugh at the newb.) Henceforth, I'll do my part to make WoWHead better.
As for the WoWhead staff not being able to review every comment...I've come to think of you all as an elite cadre of deity-like beings, weilding immense, omnipotent power. Please, leave my illusion intact. : )
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Anoroth
While I believe that Wowhead is the most accurate, I'd have to say that maybe the best site for quick info is the curse database, which is accessible by simply clicking on the curse icon and typing in what you are looking for, which then automatically starts a window with the information on what you are looking for.
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89503
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Post by
Skosiris
While I believe that Wowhead is the most accurate, I'd have to say that maybe the best site for quick info is the curse database, which is accessible by simply clicking on the curse icon and typing in what you are looking for, which then automatically starts a window with the information on what you are looking for.
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Samuno
Www.ThottBot.Com
FTW. You are all losers compared to the awesomeness that is ThottBot.
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128491
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Post by
crspyofarthas
Wowhead is simply a head full of WOW about WoW,
wowhead the best then wowhead then wowhead then wiki then allahkhazam (only cuz its soo hard to spell), then thott(cuz of da 1337 blayerz zat post zere!!)
Post by
SignupSucks
Wowhead is clean, functional, fast, with a much larger signal to noise ratio as far as comments are concerned. It is by far the best spoiler site I've ever used; the only thing that came close was Lucy back in Everquest, and that only for spell data, item stats, and (near the end of my game) item drop locations.
I used Allakhazam for a long time in Everquest, and I found it slow and unreliable. All its data was put in manually, so it could be a month before anything new was put in, updated, edited, and corrected. Unfortunately at the time Allakhazam was the best available, so I had to use it. A similar thing was true of Thottbot: although the data was gathered by programs, it included a lot of old and outdated data, and indeed a lot of things that are on the live servers but inaccessible (such as certain trained recipes). Thottbot's comment system also sucked hard; the community there rivals YouTube for sheer stupidity.
I will miss WoWHead a lot when I move on to AoC or WAR.
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