Nintendo Bias

[grandmaster192]

Sqrl said:
No offense but you really don't seem to know what you're talking about.

No offence takin, Sqrl.

For starters KZ3 was hardly a first, second, third, fourth, or even fifth time offender he has been posting flamebait for a very long time and this ban was a long time coming. So there is more than good reason for him being the only one banned.

I'm not questioning why Killzone 3 was banned. Benkenobi had every right to ban him, as he was pretty much flaming an entire fanbase. However, I beleive that if some of the things were taking care of before hand, it wouldn't have got so bad.   

Secondly the mods have never once claimed to not have opinions.  They are people like you and I who come to the site to discuss video games.  The only difference is ioi has asked them to help keep it civil. They are allowed to make their views known. Once again I feel I should point out the trolling is not just posting a viewpoint contrary to what everyone in the thread is saying. You are allowed to post a different view thats not the issue.  Its when you do it for the sole purpose of pissing people off and by insulting and mocking people or just plain being rude when its uncalled for.

Mods posting their opinions is fine. They have every right to do so. You're right about trolling, and how posting a viewpoint contrary is not trolling at all. Those pictures, however, were indeed trolling, as they fit your discription of trolling like a glove. They were insulting, rude, and just plain uncalled for. To expect someone not to get upset over those pics is a bit foolish. Imagine what would happen if I posted a thread about 1up's madden reveiw, then went on posting pics about the game being bad. There would have been a uproar of Nintendo fans flamming me and calling 1up bias. Hell, I'm called a troll just for thinking Heavenly Sword is better then Metriod. See for youself: http://vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=6347 This is trolling, but what memebers were doing in the Lair thread isn't? There's clearly a double standard here. Shams was allowed to post his opinion, which was the exact thing I did. You also have people claiming Heavenly Sword is a 0/10 game, yet this is somehow not trolling with my post being a troll post.

Finally,  AllAll has pretty much spent his time on this site whining and complaining about mods for the exact reasons I just detailed.  If you read the threads I was talking about above you will see that he was being rude, insulting, and in general disruptive.  Hardly the way to go about making a change in policy...don't you think?

AllAll expessed his opinions very poorly. However, this doesn't mean that they are not valid. I really think him, myself and other members have a point when it comes to there being a double standard here. AllAll just didn't go about it the right way, which is probably why he's banned right now. Lets be honest, Sqrl, the mods are not without their flaws, and I think that this is one of them.

said before the pictures weren't called for but they weren't exactly over the top considering the tone of the thread.  Anyone who had an issue with them should of posted to that effect.  This site is about having a good time and those pictures while poking fun at the expense of the game, weren't targeted at anybody and hardly constitute a ban worthy offense.  People getting upset over the pictures is actually more over the top than the pictures themselves imho.

Those pictures didn't contribte the theard at all. Instead they did nothing but get memebers worked up. I don't think that the pictures were ban worthy, but they should have been deleted and memebrs should have been told not to post them. Things like that do nothing but cause problems for memebers and people who were exicted for this game. You can't honestly expect people not to get worked up over those pics. If it were the other way around and someone did that in the nintendo forum, there would have been plenty flames.