Or just requiring short replies. Like the 2 mines you are responding to are already quoted automatically. 

You guys could just ignore that stuff. Just saying.

What do you mean exactly by 2 mines?

Sorry on a temporary phone with terrible auto correct. 

I meant if a gut replies to a post which totals 2 lines you don't need to 're quote it in your reply.

I second that. It has literally no purpose since a post itself is already referencing the OP unless otherwise stated.

It would be harsh to ban people for that especially if it's a once off. Maybe remove the option to quote the OP? maybe axum or talon could implement this.

Nobody says anything about an instant ban. Warning first. Also completely removing the option is not the goal. It helps with long posts where you want to quote specific sections.

It's just about the morons who copy a 3 page OP just to write "kay" underneath.

This is one of the things i was referring to when complaining about Jrnation. I've often seen him quote really long posts and his only contribution is something like you just said. 

Report him then. The worst and best thing that could happen is that you annoy the mods.

I want to talk about a thing that's been on my mind for a while.

As everyone knows the forum rules and mods have a self inflicted extreme bias for companies that own one of the major 3 consoles. Any negative comments against those 3 companies will usually earn warnings and bans while any other company outside of that spectrum gets a free pass to be shat on. This includes of course individuals working at those companies.

Examples:

Blizzard is complete garbage for introducing lootboxes. -> totally acceptable and cheered on by everyone
Sony is complete garbage for making people pay for online. -> instant ban

Ubisoft hasn't made a single good game in 10 years. -> totally acceptable and cheered on by everyone
Microsoft hasn't made a single good game in 10 years. -> instant ban

I hope Battlefront 2 fails and EA goes out of Business. -> totally acceptable and cheered on by everyone
I hope the Switch fails and Nintendo goes out of Business. -> instant ban

Bobby Kotick is the worst piece of trash that ever walked the earth. -> totally acceptable and cheered on by everyone
Iwata is the worst piece of trash that ever walked the earth. -> instant perma ban

See, I don't really like this dichotomy. It feels weird and is not entirely fair. Especially considering that the console companies are basically the spotlight of this forum and most threads revolve around them. Of course substance is king and none of those sentences should ever be posted standalone without further explanation. Yet, only half of these posts would be punished.

A special example here is the hope or wish that some things will not succeed. Those are usually punished, especially when it's about the big 3. But that doesn't really add up.Wishing for something to fail has the exact same selfish reasons behind it as wishing for something to succeed. A big component in this forum are predictions. Everyone loves to make them and we let through even the most ridiculous ones. For a lot of those predictions it is important that certain things don't sell more than you predicted so it feels natural to hope that it won't sell as much to not be wrong.

So predicting things is fine, hoping for your predictions to come true is wrong. Wishing for your favorite company to succeed so you can have more games is fine, wishing for your lesser liked companies to fail so the resources are rerouted to something more useful to you is wrong.

It's no secret that I am not a big fan of consoles. I dream of a future without proprietary terrible closed platforms. A future with one single open platform that can be used by everyone and augmented by both consumers and companies. So it's natural to hope that every single console will fail to make room for a better future without arbitrary walls and more competition.

This, of course, includes Nintendo, which, in my opinion, is the absolute worst offender when it comes to terrible hardware platforms that are terribly limited and give zero choice to anything. So yes, I do want to scream that Nintendo should stop making consoles. And if they don't stop making consoles without going completely under, then so be it. I don't want Nintendo to not exist, I just want them to stop making terrible hardware and strong-arming people onto that terrible hardware by making all their good games exclusive to said terrible hardware.

I think that is an absolutely reasonable stance to have. Though if I posted that in any actual Nintendo thread, everyone would have my head. But if I want to go into an EA thread and proudly proclaim that Andrew Wilson should eat shit and die, I would probably be crowned King of VGChartz or something.

So stop deciding arbitrarily which fanbase's feelings you want to protect and start treating all things equally. No fan base holds the holy grail to stand above others.