What in the hell happened to this place?

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Areym said:

soulsamurai said:

Completly agree with that first paragraph. It's almost orewellian what you can and cannot say.

On a sidenote while I agree that a ban was a little harsh for that, i can see why it was done. You can't just go in a claim something is stupid without explaining why to someone. Even if it is self evident....

I'll use my own personal opinion as an example.

"I think the possibilities of kinect could have been wonderful, but it failed to live up to expectations and failed as a device to really bring anything useful to the table. It turned out kinda stupid..."

Who exactly am I hurting by calling Kinect dumb? Who's life am I destroying by simply calling it dumb?  Have you ever had a time when you thought something was just stupid but you didn't want/feel like going into extensive detail? That was that situation.

Never in my wildest dream would i have imagined that calling kinect dumb, on the internet of all places, would warrant disciplinary action. Never.

It's not that you're hurting someone's feeling or offending them (although some people do take these things seriously).  It's a matter of comments like "Kinect is dumb" being counterproductive to intelligent conversation.  Comments like this tend to derail threads into petty arguments (Kinect is dumb! No Move is dumb! No Kinect is dumb!) and make it impossible for those who would like to have an actual conversation about a particular topic.

The point of this board isn't simply to emulate the real world, or give you a place to voice whatever you want.  The point is to provide a place for people to have meaningful conversations about these sorts of things.  Comments that make this more difficult should be moderated IMO.