With all do Respect - User Post History disappearing during a Ban.. is Retarded.

[lestatdark]

RolStoppable said:

lestatdark said:

Carl2291 said:

One word - Maxwell

Oh please. At least Maxwell did his job, whether you liked it or not (although it's no surprise you don't) and you wouldn't see the same amount of trolling aand BS when he took care of a thread as you see today. Yeah he was more focused on Nintendo threads, but with good reason. 

Quite frankly, threads were more civilized when he was around.

I have to agree. Maxwell used to ban people based on intent, something that isn't really done anymore. You have instances where everyone knows the motive behind a specific post, but nothing is done about it, because the moderators are bounded by the forum rules like the police is by law.

There are people who don't contribute in any positive way to these forums, but they are left to do what they want, because they know about the restrictions that are put on the mods.

This may be a little bit ironic coming from me, but I do think that in my time here I have made much more positive contributions than negative ones.

The thing is, any long time member here in VGC should easily spot those who have actual malicious intent or ulterior motives/hidden agenda behind their posts from those who posts light-hearty stuff and overall fun grabbing threads to lighten the mood (your Rol "troll" threads are a good example of that). Having the ability to distinguish between both, should be a pre-requisite for being able to moderate a forum/site/whatever.

To make myself clear, I'll give the example of Starcraft. He was probably one of the biggest trolls/trouble starters I've seen, yet his actions remained unchecked most of the times because he cleverly stealthed his trolling. Anytime he went further with the trolling, he got banned. If he were still around today, probably he could get away with pretty much anything, and that's the biggest difference from how moderation used to be to what it is now.