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jake_the_fake1 said:

Yes the VG forums has been dying a slow death, I personally blame the draconian mods.

I've been here pretty much when the site began, back when the forums where booming but things are not as they were.

Currently Neogaf is the best forum, awesome community, always tons of activity. Large E3 announcements causes the forum to starts giving the 404 error because of the sheer amount of users and I love how the community use that as a gage for how popular something is. People on neogaf can have a bit of a light hearted joke here and there with no threat of being banned. People can even post things that will come across being fanboyish and be fine, but here you will get banned. In fact here you will get banned for posting facts, they'll pick how you worded things to have cause to ban you, especially if its anything negative against Nintendo......stuff like this draconian way of running the threads will and have driven people away.

I'm not advertising Neogaf, but just drawing a comparison as I frequent both. In my opionion VG mods need to look at how Neogaf do their thing and try mimic it a little bit to try get a balace...assuming that the site admins care that is, cause if their main concern is just the numbers and monetizing that, they should just shut down the forms and place themselves as an NPD like company, luckly that's not the case but they just need to amend things.

Change is hard, but change is good, no need to fear it, instead embrace it :)

So now the draconian mods ban you for saying anything negative against Nintendo?  In the last few weeks the mods as a group have gone from being pro-Nintendo to anti-MS to pro-Sony to anti-Nintendo to pro- Nintendo.  I think that we've started being anti-Sony this week too.  I'm sure that I'm missing some stuff in there but that's pretty much how complaints have gone recently on this site.  When a user or two of a certain group is banned then we are against that group?  Please stop with this crap because that's exactly what it is, crap.  I have no problem with us being criticised for certain individual things that we have done since we are not perfect, but to say that we ban people for only talking in a negative way about one  company is ludicrous.  The truth is that we ban people that we feel need to be banned.  It doesn't matter what company they cheer for.

Whether you think that we are too strict or not is completely up for you to decide, but don't start with that stuff about us moderating one way towards one group and another way towards another because it's simply not true.  Were we picking on lilbroex because he was a Nintendo fan?  We must have been anti-Nintendo back then.