Nice work. I hope you had fun doing it.

Were you one of the spambots?

If its bannable then the moderators need to be consitent on it. One person cant be banned while another is let off, and I say this as someone who spends a lot of time here mocking people for being stupid.

I have been in the thread, Ive read the entire thing. You need to look at the context. At who hes talking about/to and why he said it.

The first quote, about jumping up and down and clapping. Hes talking about the people laughing about the situation in the OP and the first post. The 2 tweets in the thread are laughing at the whole thing and the first post is simply "lulz". The topic itself is relatively old news and people are laughing about it (presumably thinkiing its gonna be negative for Xbox).

That much is obvious. I dont see it as insulting at all. The only people who would be insulted by that, would be the people who are guilty of doing it.

Telling someone to educate themselves on the topic at hand, while posting in said topic, I dont think can be classed as insulting neither. He worded it strongly. Could have been nicer about it, could have been ruder. To moderate for an aggressive tone is also unheard of here.

It just sits with me as a very, very harsh ban. I could understand a telling off or a general warning, but a Week long ban for it is steep. Especially steep, when you consider that the one word "lulz", troll/spam post didnt even get moderated.

Selective moderation is bad. There has to be consistency.

Which is nothing but a rubbish ruling.

Different people have different posting styles. Some people post in a more aggressive/negative tone (see kowenicki and KylieDog for examples). Some people are always happy and quirky (See Smeags and NintendoPie). Some people dont know the language as well as others and some people are more eloquent.

I just think its a really harsh ban. Like I said, I can understand a warning for the first jumping and clapping comment, but the moderation on the second has me puzzled.

Also - You should hire a mod specifically for spambots.

SpambotsNeedsBaning

@mods: I don't envy you guys.At all.

Yes, I'm in the beta! Hold on? It's not that kind of list?

Those are actually Xbox supporters posing as PlayStation supporters. 

I think one of my very first times posting on these forums (not on a game wall or article) was immediately told to fuck off by Snesboy, it was the fact that he was banned for it almost immediately was what made me consider this place as a permanent forum to spend time on.

Yeah. He used to get very defensive and/ or very trollish for no damn reason whatsoever. Nowadays he barely even comes here.

I'm actually against aggressive style posting. It really annoys me when someone replies with "Seriously??!!!???!" or shit like that all the time (like FlamingWeazel for example) and I feel like banning them is justified because it's actually annoying and offensive. KylieDog is negative, but anyone getting offended by that is illogical. 

Anyway, I see your point of view and I do think that it's leaning a bit on the harsh side, but honestly like Trucks said it always turns into a fight when he makes a comment like that. People don't like to be looked down on.