Depending on your browser, you may have noticed a small new graphic at the bottom of G4tv.com today - it's the beta for OneTrueFan - a new way to show your love for G4TV and find other people who are interested in the same games and stuff that you are. As with many things in life (especially on the internet), its a popularity contest. Earn points by visiting often, reading lots of articles, sharing links and driving traffic back to G4tv.com. But fan-ship is fleeting and the points you earn disappear after 14 days, so make sure to come back and show your love regularly. We'll look to offer prizes for top fans in the future if you guys are into it.
When you register, you automatically show up in the bar on pages that you visit, with your recent shared articles showing up in your profile flyout. We hope this is a great way to discover new content by checking out the flyouts of people on the same page as you. What you share is all on you; the control is entirely up to you.
You can also earn custom patches on G4tv.com such as Newshound (for TheFeed), Attack of the Show-er and Around the Net, as well as Thanks for Sharing, Second Base (five pages in a single visit) and Commitment (30 days in a row at G4TV.com). As time goes on, we'll release more custom patches, these will include game and event specific patches, and limited edition patches for things like E3 live streaming, and Comic-Con. You can view your patches at OneTrueFan.com, and in the future some of these will be available as real patches that OTF will send to you so you can have mom stitch them onto your boy scout uniform/jean jacket.
If you enjoy OneTrueFan, you can install the AddOn to your browser and see people on every site you visit. If you don't like OneTrueFan, just click the "Hide OTF permanently" option in the settings flyout and you'll never see the bar again.
As always, let us know what you think and remember that you can simply click on "Hide OTF Permanently" in the option menu on the right side of the bar if you don't like it. OneTrueFan is still in beta and is constantly improving based upon user feedback.
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Suhaila
How want to make sure it will never pop up again. Where is that option? I'm getting really pissed off and every time I hit the hide permanently for this site and go to another page within G4TV it reappears. I hate this thing. There's a reason I don't have widgets on my browser.
Jowls
"Hide OTF permanently" still not working. please please make it go away.
macross2012
Please get rid of this feature.. The options to prem remove do not work.. Comes back every time..
Ra3000
There are reasons i limit my visits to this site.
+1 reason
Onikinou
I'm hating this site more and more. All the freakin adds that I can avoid and videos that don't load properly.
EntropyMu
I hope it stays away, or I'll be getting my gaming/internet news elsewhere permanently.
pj48
'Hide OTF Permanently' doesn't work. Opt-in is always better than opt-out.
dubonnen
Hate it get rid of it!
DreamingDarklyRobin
G4 sure is good at pissing off the fans.
ThataUFO
"a new way to show your love for G4TV" So, visiting this website and putting up with it's clunky-ness and watching your tv channel isn't enough for you. Now want us to put adware on our computers. Have you guys been talking to Charlie Sheen about marketing?
B-minus
also the "Hide OTF Permanently" option does not work when i select it. The "just for now" option works fine but the hide permanently option does not and i've tryed it on different pages on this site, exited the internet and came back to g4 and it's still not working. so it seems as if this is being forced on those of us who don't want to use this thing
B-minus
yeah this would be cool if we were all still in high school and for some reason actually care about facebook or twitter. besides a lot of people that veiw this site might not have or want facebook or twitter, like me. so what do we get out of this. a bar going across the bottom of the screen showing some people we dont really care about. Also what if your real number one fan or whatever doesnt use that thing at all what does he get. probly nothing
TheBRADLeyB
Is that what the hell this garbage is under neeth my screen?
I understand G4's Viewership is down because DirecTV played hardball with Comcast but... Get this Garbage OUT OF HERE.
Trust me, being G4's One True Fan isn't that impressive, whatever the heck it is.
iamedd
For some reason this reminds me a lot of Jesse Schell's discussion on points and "gameification" and I honestly don't know how to feel about it.
bpm140
There are two "hide" options. One hides the bar temporarily, the other permanently. If you're clicking the option labeled "Hide OTF Permanently" and it still pops up for you, please let me know.
Cybersuicide
Nice way to make money... forced task bars. Next will you be adding you own desktop shortcuts? If this is the price to have a porn chick do the feed, I'm out.
aodmisery
junk!!!
Cybersuicide
get this garbage off! If you have a "Close" box or HIDE FOREVER make sure it works.
BONERJAM
Nevermind it came right back up, not at all loving G4 right now.
BONERJAM
I'm so glad I got this OneTrueFan bar/pop-up to finally disappear, I'm a fan of G4(mostly the site since I have Directv) but I'm not a fan of pop-ups.
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