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Thorin: industry overvalues online comments
Counter-Strike 2 analyst Duncan "Thorin" Shields wrote on X that esports insiders overrate comments from random users and fake accounts, Cybersport.ru reports.
Key facts
- WhoCS2 analyst Duncan "Thorin" Shields
- Wherea post on X
- Whathe names overrating social media comments as one of esports' main problems
Counter-Strike 2 analyst Duncan “Thorin” Shields named what he sees as one of esports’ main problems in a post on X, Cybersport.ru reported on Nov. 6. In his view, the industry overrates the importance of social media comments.
What Thorin wrote
According to the outlet, Thorin wrote that people in the industry are constantly online. As a result, he wrote, they overrate to an absurd degree the weight of comments from random users and fake accounts.
He added that cranks pretend to represent huge fan communities. In his words, that is not the case.
Earlier comments
Cybersport.ru also recalled Thorin’s earlier remarks about Team Falcons coach Danny “zonic” Sorensen. The outlet said Thorin had said that another major organization would have fired zonic as coach.
Why it matters
Thorin wrote on X, Cybersport.ru reported, that people in the industry overrate comments from random users and fake accounts to an absurd degree.