As you surely all know Jeff Gerstmann's departure from Gamespot was officially confirmed by the staff. If I knew that CNet's management lacked input devices I could have sent one for them.

Many of us protested and believed in miracles and thought that Jeff could have been brought back by GS users to his well deserved position but I doubt he would ever wanted to come back and continue his career at GS once CNet Network's management decided to get rid of him.

You all must accept that he's not that fool and he must have pride and some hard feelings in his heart now anyway and to be honest I would be surprised if the guys responsible for his departure would ever altered any decisions they have already made otherwise they'd also risk their positions. That's the way managements must work to maintain their power.

Any reasons they told us why Jeff had to leave would just have been official PR c'rap they try to hide behind and we couldn't even expect more from them because they made a bad decision. Time will tell if they learn from that or not.

All we can do is NOT letting them forget about how much pain they caused to us and to the whole GS staff and how they can endanger their own revenues by mindlessly slashing around.

The management forgot about a very important factor that makes Gamespot editorial be able to get closer to their readers and viewers compared to most of the review sites and it's that they're providing audiovisual experience by uploading audio and video materials for the audience. That's how they show up as flesh and blood guys and that's a way how they prove their honesty to us. Our personal bonds to them are stronger than they'd think they are.

CNet won this battle by taking down a significant leader but the war has just begun.

Rumours say that many registered GS users have already cancelled their subscriptions to show their indignation which seems to be a right way to protest against an indirect threat on reviewers. Since I have nothing to cancel the only way I can tell CNet they're not right is that I boycott CNet websites including Gamespot on every Thursday until the end of next year. No matter how hard that will be for me I'll stick to my plan because there's no other way for me to express my support for the rest of the staff.

Completely leaving GS is not the right way to show how upset you are and I'm sure you'll come back sooner than you'd think because there's no other place to go. Keep defending this one and not only for just one or two days! Let CNet constantly hear your voices to make them realize that YOU ARE REPRESENTING THE MONEY they make and that's why our reviewers' independence provide them dollars!

Farewel Jeff and stay cool! You know you're a hero to most of us. Maybe a hero you always wanted to be...