The Moderator Thread

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Kerotan said:

Carl2291 said:

Pro-PlayStation comments aren't a problem when they're relevant to a discussion, adding to discussion or even welcoming discussion. 

As it's a part of the above discussion, using the most recent example I have at my fingertips, I'll use this thread. Chazore (who you know you're not supposed to talk to) creates a thread about PC gamers being put first and PC being the main target platform when it comes to the System Shock remake. Your sole contribution to his thread is to say "Great to see another PC game is making its way to PS4". 

On top of that? As soon as Chazore replies to your post you're in my inbox (and I'd assume other moderators inboxes) to report him. Honestly, and I never imagined myself typing this, I feel sorry for Chazore. Not only is he trying to create positive discussion regarding PC gaming on a forum that's never really welcomed it, but he's having to put up with and dance around egregious posts like that from someone who's growing a history of baiting.

It's not really a case of moderating someone because they're posting positively, it's a case of taking each and every post a user makes and looking at it closely, seeing what it contributes to a thread and seeing how said user is making others react around them. When a users overwhelming positivity for a platform is causing numerous problems in places it really shouldn't be, we know there's a problem with that user and not the one's reacting. I feel it's something we as a team need to address further in the future, to avoid things like what happened in Chazore's System Shock thread.

You feel sorry for him?  When half of his posts bring up things like "but pc is dying" or "but you need to spend thousands to build a good pc".  

 

Is this not baiting?  I love how you feel sorry for him when it's clear as day he's constantly trying to bait people. 

 

And what's wrong with saying it's great to see a pc game coming to ps4? Him and many others constantly go on about how great it is seeing jrpgs coming to PC.  Oh I bet you don't feel sorry for anyone that baits. 

 

Nice and professional there btw.  Let everyone know I message you and act like reports don't happen the other way around.  There's another user (Nintendo fan) who you never mentioned,  who for the last year has done nothing but try and bait me on comg and mediacreate threads.  Now I just ignored him most of the time so his attempts failed miserably before he grew increasingly frustrated,  escalating things to the point he's also banned from quoting me. 

 

But I guess you feel sorry for me too.  Which is ironic Carl.  Because this brings me to the reason I started pm'ing you reports in the first place.  There were unfair and biased moderations dissed out against me.  Then my reports were ignored.  So I made a point of highlighting them in pm's so it would not continue. 

 

But no,  don't paint the full picture.  Appreciate it brother :)

Oh please Kerotan, really?Complaining about other people baiting when you bait yourself at every chance you have?And complain when users prove, after you go on and say you are innocent yourself and do nothing wrong, that you are doing it on purpose and say thats unprofessional?Because lets be honest, using System Shock thread as an example, you knew it wouldnt rub people the right way with that post of yours.You are here long enough to know how people tick.

I think that this "excessive positivity" should be bannable, if the user has an extensive history of using that post "strategy" to bait people.