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PlaystaionGamer on 24 March 2013

odd. i remember people used to be more epic with there predictions and would request bans if they where wrong. Those days.. The best days



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Kantor on 24 March 2013

Nope, a lot of people offered to be banned for losing predictions, but it was never enforced.



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Kantor on 24 March 2013
RolStoppable said:
Kantor said:
Nope, a lot of people offered to be banned for losing predictions, but it was never enforced.

I don't think so, Kantor.

Could you give an example? I don't remember it ever happening.



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Max King of the Wild on 24 March 2013

ban bets happened quite a bunch back in the day. Mods were told to stop enforcing them though because it made the site look bad



haxxiy on 24 March 2013
Max King of the Wild said:
ban bets happened quite a bunch back in the day. Mods were told to stop enforcing them though because it made the site look bad


Yeah there were the bans over bets and the predictions leagues too.

Man, those were good days. We had a happy site and didn't know it.



 

 

 

 

 

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COLD_COBRA_ on 24 March 2013

People should have been banned for predicting the ps3 to never surpass n64 sales. 



Mazty on 01 May 2013
spurgeonryan said:
COLD_COBRA_ said:

People should have been banned for predicting the ps3 to never surpass n64 sales. 

I agree!

But I do not agree this should be brought back. Sounds to horrible! Maybe if we had 10,000 users on at a time...but we are lucky to have a thousand on at a time.

As long as they can logically justify their posistion, any prediction should be allowed. 

I was banned for saying a few months back that the Wii U was DOA and wouldn't succeed for numerous reasons ...and yet look where it is now...



Mazty on 01 May 2013
spurgeonryan said:
Mazty said:
spurgeonryan said:
COLD_COBRA_ said:

People should have been banned for predicting the ps3 to never surpass n64 sales. 

I agree!

But I do not agree this should be brought back. Sounds to horrible! Maybe if we had 10,000 users on at a time...but we are lucky to have a thousand on at a time.

As long as they can logically justify their posistion, any prediction should be allowed. 

I was banned for saying a few months back that the Wii U was DOA and wouldn't succeed for numerous reasons ...and yet look where it is now...


It is on its way out of trouble?

Back then it was such a radical idea that it was not accepted. Liken the Mods here to the old Catholic church. Any new ideas are looked down upon.

Because failing to hit the cut down prediction is somehow a good sign as well as 3rd party devs jumping ship? Thoughtless comments should be a bannable offence as this is a sales site where it should be about number crunching and market analysis; nothing more, nothing less. Yet the forums are almost the opposite of that where people cheer on their favourite manufactuer for unknown reasons.