Saipan Sucks

Credited as "sticking a giant wrench" into the CNMI's entire tourism industry and the island government's efforts to recruit off-island talent for over more than a decade, the website and its commentary has been reported in a variety of local,[1][2] regional,[3][4] and international[5] newsprint and magazine outlets, on ABC Radio Australia,[6] and Internet forums[7][8] and blogs.

[11] Saipan Sucks calls attention to what it alleges to be systemic societal problems in the CNMI that are supported by misuse of United States taxpayer money.

Fueled by money paid by American taxpayers and diverted to the far-off territory, politicians run for office primarily for the sake of being in a position to appoint their relatives to high-paying sinecures.

[1][2][3][4][10][12] Since July 2001, shortly after Saipan Sucks was published, CNMI government officials criticized the website's anonymity and characterized it as a "smear campaign".

The group published an ultimately unsuccessful plan to counter the website's ranking through a campaign of linkspamming via Google bombing and text anchoring.