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dunno001 said:
Bitmap Frogs said:

Every since I think it was late 2008/early 2009 the mod staff was shuffled moderation has gone to crap, specially concerning 360 trolling.

In the old days mods would read the forum and check post history which resulted in waaay better moderation.

These days they just manage the report queue so without background information on the poster everything is considered "just opinion". So trolling is a free for all game again, specially on the X360 subforum. Try something like this talking about the Wii or the PS3 and you'll be toast.

Heck, I took TWO bans for stating a truth. For the record, one was a truth which shed a bad light on PS3 posters, the other shed a bad light on X360 posters.

That's why I suggest anyone who's serious about a gaming forum to just join GAF. Moderators there are quirky but they can spot a troll miles away. To give you an idea, Crazzyman lasted months if not years here. On GAF, didn't last a week.

*grumbles* You do know that whining like this on the forum is usually frowned upon, right? If you have a problem with a moderator, or the way that the mod team is acting in general, then talk to the admin in charge of moderators! Everyone on this forum is (I hope) human, and thus, prone to mistakes.

I respect you for taking the time to post everything you did after this sentence but for the record the above doesn't work.  Some of my moderations are extremely harsh intepretations yet this is never factored into a decision.  Read my mod history if you like, I think it's harsh to simply hide behind the phrase you've done something vaguely similar before so you're banned when you see countless other posts not moderated that are worse.  Flaming and trolling seem to be the favoured ban reasons on here where as personally I think perhaps baiting should be enforced more often.  All too often people post "extreme" opinion as fact and then just watch the fall out, getting off without any moderation.

I think it unfair calling this a troll thread mind you, it's an opinion on technology that is unfinished so there very well might have been such issues in a earlier build that allowed the author to draw such conclusions.