Not to repeat, but people who obviously hate a console, and they are easily recognizable, are often the ones posting these articles.
The articles are very carefully worded to exploit you, the moderator, to be insulting but not bannable. They are using a workaround to laugh at 360 owners, when negative news arises.
There is such a thing as passive-agressive trolling. Just ask some of your 360 cohorts, but I really shouldn't bring his name up again.
Its easy to spot, and not banning passive-agressive news trolls is the only ideal way to be perfectly fair.
The question is, are you going to be idealogues, or realists? Are you going to ban people who are obviously trolling, or let them off the hook because everyone must be treated equally, regardless of their past actions and reputations?
I've always felt the mods on this forum were very fair, but also work with people on an individual basis, and you guys put a lot of good times into the site and add a lot to the community. I'm sure you'll end up with a worthy decision either way. Neither is really right or wrong, but don't be so quick to wave off the TC's assertion.
News trolling is real, it happens every single day, and there are people on this site who live to post negative news about the Wii, 360, and PS3. That's how they get their kicks, it incites drama and flames, and the news stories are not presented in a fair and balanced light, they are simply mod workarounds.
Disagreeing with locking posts is fine, but claiming that these trolls aren't trolls and don't exist is just lying to yourself.
I don't need your console war.
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor.
You're power hungry, spinnin' stories, and bein' graphics whores.
I don't need your console war.
NO NO, NO NO NO.
