http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8944702
This moderation makes no sense. The ban note is essentially saying that you can't critique a topic or the OP of a topic, which is very counter-intuitive for a forum. It also doesn't make sense that part of the ban note states that I was "calling an entire fanbase too sensitive and insecure", because that is not what I was doing. I only wrote "Nintendo fans" because we were talking specifically about threads made to defend Nintendo, so the point I was making only pertained to the Nintendo fans who were in those threads. Nowhere did I say the entire fanbase was doing it. To do so would be to say that the entire Nintendo fanbase accumulated into three threads, which doesn't even make sense. In fact, I even say in the next line that I'm a Nintendo fan, so obviously my point was never that it applied to the entire fanbase. Saying Nintendo fans was me being matter of fact.
The backseat moderation tag is also frankly nonsensical. Many people post replies agreeing or disagreeing with someone and fundamentally if you wanted to make a stretch, all of them can be seen as some form of telling users what they should or shouldn't post. Considering I posted nothing about moderation, and that all I did was question how much we needed more defense threads, it doesn't really fit the category of backseat moderating in the slightest. Unless agreeing or disagreeing with someone and questioning the point of their contribution is backseat moderation, in which case there's a lot of moderations that need to be handed out every day.
I'm in a VGChartz Nintendo discord and four people commented on the thread. Not one of them could understand the reason for the moderation. One of those people was GoOnKid, the OP. So if no one was offended or felt that my comments were malicious, why should I be moderated?
