Chaos Shadows (review)

Chaos Shadows, a club site by infernallord
Okay, I guess the first thing you're going to notice about this review that's different from the usual is that I have NOT posted a link to the site I am reviewing. There's a very simple reason for this. I do not reccommend anyone going to this site, for numerous reasons. I haven't wanted to write this review, because I don't like telling someone their site is "rubbish" (his own words), but infernallord has constantly requested that people come visit his site on the ad boards, so I am going to tell people what they are going to see.

First and worst, even though infernallord has been told for a month and a half what bandwidth theft is and that it is illegal, I could only find two images hosted on his own server, his linkback buttons. The rest of the images are directly linked off the Zetapets image servers or the Zetahelp server.

And on that note, you might notice that the image above is a gif file. The original is a bmp. There is no reason for having a linkback be a bmp image. It more than quadruples the file size (22K vs. 4K as a .gif).

Also, as you may know I am very adamant about the zetapets copyright notice. If you do not have it, you are plagiarizing, claiming that the images and pet names and other zetapets related media is yours when it is not. Again, highly illegal, and against the rules and can get your zetapets account iced. Notice the Chaos Shadows copyright notice:

All codes, images, content, chaos demons and other related things are © of chaos shadows - 2004. All rights reserved zetapets media copyright © 2004 zetapets.com Used with permission.

Because of the wording, Infernallord is now claiming that he created all the images, you know - the ones he's stealing bandwidth usage for.

Fourth, there are very few pages actually finished. Normally not a big deal, but when you're advertising what a great site it is, it should have more than news, faq, polls, and links. Where the's beef?? (am I showing scout's age again? *grins*) The Help section is coming soon, the FAQ has one question in it, and the News is so grammatically garbled that it is hard to understand what they are announcing. The e-cards are an interesting idea, but again, they are .bmp files (maybe the reason infernallord has to steal bandwidth?), and not the best images I have seen with transparencies that aren't really.

So, is there anything good about the site? Like I said, the e-cards are an interesting idea. The games might be cool once infernallord has them working, but I'm sure you can find them on another site. The only thing unique that is good is really the e-cards. Oh, and it is an excellent example of what NOT to do on a Zetafansite.
Two paws down. Makes me want to roll over and die. Don't bother visiting this site. It will probably be yanked soon anyway for all the rule violations anyways.
Kitaro 9:50 AM